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I understand what you're saying but one of the things I found attractive about the Norse gods was that they're not perfect. They are uncivilised at times! For m
by Accacin 7y ago
I understand what you're saying but one of the things I found attractive about the Norse gods was that they're not perfect. They are uncivilised at times! For me at least, I found I could relate to them better because of their faults.
- Fjolsvith 7y agoExactly! And they are living gods. I never knew until well into my adulthood that Odhinn and Thor had been calling to me all my life.
- inflatableDodo 7y agoI like archetypal deities, to me they kind of represent the standing waves in causality that occur once you get to biological levels of complexity, in much the same way that fundamental particles emerge when looking at simpler levels of detail.
- sampo 7y agoThe Greek and the Roman gods were like that, too. And maybe had more influence on the European culture, than Nordic gods.