Basically everyone knows how afterlife works in Norse and Greek mythology, but why almost nobody ever talks about the concepts of afterlife in other pagan religions?
dumbass, most european pagan religions aren't even properly preserved in text. Only Greek and Roman are really, even Norse we have minimal info on.
>>18734537>pagan>>18734542>even Norse we have minimal info on"pagan" is a jewish catch-all for everything other than Judaism (including variants of christianity that doesn't adhere to Judeo™-christianity)The norse mythos is the yamna mythos of post-conquered europe,- spanning the osirian south, luwian east, horselord steppe and "icegiants" of the various mountainhomes inbetween.most mythologies of the world are somehow connected to the horselords of eurasia or cattlelords of the persian gulf, due to the first people to domesticate animals being the healthiest hybrids emerging from the finalized merger of neanderthals, denisovans, cromagnon and others, that had already been through the immunesystem bottlenecks of surviving in the dungtrails of herds of megafauna.there isn't that many other mythos to choose from, because the transition from instinctive oral storytelling and over into scripture is what the biblical "Man" is based on,- which marks the final merger of the horselords, cattlelords and sheepherders, into a larger urban caloriepool able to sustain a literary culture that itself produces zero calories,- and instead consumes far more calories on brainpower and logistics of sedentary herding and crop cycling."Humanity" is 6000 years old, because we didn't have linguistics until then - only symbolism and standardized sounds from hearsay and oral tradition.
>>18734542The vast majority of what we now know about Norse religion and culture is what was recorded by Christian scholars after the Norse religion had already started to fade. There's a particular level of failure where the only record of your beliefs is what your opponents thought was worth recording. It's the reason you find so many pro-christian statements in the text of Sagas that are read today, particularly Norse pagans making comments like "I do not share your religion, but I know it is better than mine".
>>18734646ironically, the "canon" norse mythos preserved by Snorri is the Arianist norse mythos where Odin is the leading figure, and not the pre-christian Tyr-centered mythos shared more closely with Greece and other PIE mythos.Odin is literally just the Arianist Enoch, because it is based on Juba II holding the ceremonial role of the Luwian scribelord, aka, Thoth.Also synonymously known as "Rex Literatissimus" for Juba II specifically, in order to slightly romanize the cosplay of him and his wife Cleopatra Selene II.She is the "Nanna" (lunar deity) that followed Baldr (son of the sun, and heir of Odin) to the grave.Jesus of course being their second son which Arianism was banned for knowing the truth of.
>>18734659Actually Odin was the chief god in antiquity as evidenced by Tacitus equating him with Mercury and saying "Mercury" was the chief god of the Germanic gods
>>18734861well guess what, juba II and germanic presence as bodyguards in rome predates tacitus. your comment only describes the germanics he knew of, which were the ones whom had contact with rome.
>>18734537I notice Ishida really loves drawing his characters with movie trailer faces and it's really weird when you notice it
>>18734537the jews hide the truth
>>18735377We have a lot of reasons to suggest Tacitus was referring to Odin when he claimed Mercury was the chief god of the Germanic peoples beyond the many similarities between the two gods.The 7th century monk Jonas of Bobbio also claimed that the Germanic peoples worshipped Mercury and even gave his Germanic name as Vodanus, which is clearly a latinization of Odin’s Old High German name Wōdan.The names of the days of the week in Germanic languages are derived from the Roman tradition of naming the gods after the seven classical planets. When the Germanic peoples adopted this system, they swapped the Roman gods with the Germanic gods they were equated with via Interpretatio romana and what do you know, Dies Mercurii (“Day of Mercury”) became Wednesday (“Odin’s day”).There was also a syncretic Romano-Germanic god worshipped along the Rhine called Mercury Hranno, the epithet Hranno likely being linked to Odin’s alias Hrani meaning “rough one”. In fact, we’ve found a lot of syncretic Romano-Germanic shrines along the Rhine dedicated to Mercury, far more so than any other Romano-Germanic god, which would only make sense if the Germanic god that Mercury was syncretized with was already widely worshipped in the region.
