You think you've got a pretty cool religious structure, yeah? You got some neat gods in there, got a nice omnipotent deity?
Fuck that shit, the vikings have you beat. Seriously, those motherfuckers knew how to worship, and they knew who to worship.
Their gods weren't going to live forever, they weren't all powerful, none of that. They knew they were going to die, and what did they do about it? They fucking partied is what they did about it.
Thread for talking about how awesome the Norse gods were (I guess that includes the Vanir too but they're a bunch of pansies).
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Fuck yeah Thor rocks
awesome edit
anyone remember when Hercules went to the north and had adventures with baldur and thor and such?
http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/thrym.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eABVwEgzIss
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dl1vaVLBoUY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbuQ1iEBP2s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDpc-831GPs
I like how the gods aren't completely super special, they have to eat freya or someone's golden apples to stay immortal.
The Finnish Kalevala is pretty cool and interesting too.
alt post: hey this is like all that stuff in storm peaks in WoW
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much better than the pussy fag gods in style today
speaking of which heres the drawing I did of the world tree as a bg for my forum battle
Fucking wonderful.
I really like the story that comes from, actually.
My favorite though is probably the one about the mead of poetry. Odin is stone cold in that shit.
Sometimes, I like the Sagas and chronicles better than the poetic edda as a source to how awesome the Gods are. I love stories were men have to bargain with Odin to gain his favour or when he straight up gives bad advice in wars to bolster his army of the fallen.
I'm still not quite sure how big horse + god who has turned into a horse = horse with 8 legs
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Anyways I've got a huge mythology encyclopedia, I've read through the stuff on Nordic and Celtic myths they're pretty neat. The mythology of pagan religions in general is pretty neat.
Also, Celtic Mythology was always my favorite.
Seriously though, mythology is good stuff.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yH-iX-TTJcg&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjZVMa_ZmEc&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91j4lf_uwFA&feature=related
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