How closely can we reconstruct Norse paganism?

How closely can we reconstruct Norse paganism?

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You can still sacrifice yourself to Odin OP, what are you waiting for?

considering Europe is turning predominately atheist it probably wouldn't be hard if you just took out the use of the word god in the religion since they were all supposedly real people anyways.

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>Europe is turning predominately atheist
>NNNRNRNRNRRRRRRR

That's gonna suck but it's only a matter of generations for them too. Western culture is irresistable. You can't come here and see the shelves lined with food and the tits and still play pretend Islam is better for long. I see this "decay" in immigrant families all the time.

Beyond some minor basics, not at all.
Like most European "pagan" religions, the Germanic religion relied upon an oral tradition and trained shamans to pass down its theology and practices.
The christianisation of Europe broke such traditions and means that fundamental knowledge of the faith is lost to us.

It should be rather telling that the most complete view of Germanic theology comes from a Roman account.
An account that is likely filled with misinterpretations, ungrounded extrapolations and other such inaccuracies.

Comparative study of the different branches of the Germanic faith has allowed for us to reconstruct the names of most of their gods and even guess at their portfolios.
But such limited information can only get you so far.

Simply put, far to much information is lost to attempt any real 'reconstruction', certainly to the point of it being a viable and complete religion.
Anyone that says otherwise is a cringy LARPer from /pol/.

Out of all of the European religions, I personally consider the Hellenic faith the be the one that is most able to be 'reconstructed'.
But even then, one would have to supplement such a number of elements with exterior material to have a workable religion that you would be left with a heavily syncretic religion ala Shinbutsu-shūgō.

Not enough for you to LARP.

>ywn get facesitted on by hela
Why live

>it's another let's act ridiculous to give postmodernism the middle finger episode

>The men came with shields and sticks. She was given a cup of intoxicating drink; she sang at taking it and drank. The interpreter told me that she in this fashion bade farewell to all her girl companions. Then she was given another cup; she took it and sang for a long time while the old woman incited her to drink up and go into the pavillion where her master lay. I saw that she was distracted; she wanted to enter the pavillion but put her head between it and the boat. Then the old woman siezed her head and made her enter the pavillion and entered with her. Thereupon the men began to strike with the sticks on the shields so that her cries could not be heard and the other slave girls would not seek to escape death with their masters. Then six men went into the pavillion and each had intercourse with the girl. Then they laid her at the side of her master; two held her feet and two her hands; the old woman known as the Angel of Death re-entered and looped a cord around her neck and gave the crossed ends to the two men for them to pull. Then she approached her with a broad-bladed dagger, which she plunged between her ribs repeatedly, and the men strangled her with the cord until she was dead.

>Its another let's act ridiculous to give traditionalism the middle finger episode

Just because its popular doesn't mean moderns didn't do the same shit.

And by "moderns" i also include Christians who rebelled against their ancestral traditions in order to adopt a foreign religion, whether you think its true/useful or not it was foreign.

Fuck

The fact that it's a two way street is my point.

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WAREN
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SHIEEESSSSEE

It's impossible. Most of shamanic traditions are gone. You have better luck with Suomenusko

You may as well just go full Tengri at that point.

You may as well just go full nomadic at that point.

>The west is becoming athiest
Correction
*Scientism and consumerism is the new religion and the people who engage in those behaviors will leave nothing but bitter disappointment to future, generations as well as no kids.

Because religious people have more kids than athiest, and are slowly rejecting consumerism

Why would atheism have anything to do with consumerism?

>Dude int he future, everyone is going to be a ln athiestic consumerist whose only reason to exist is to abuse their dopamine levels because muh science is the only way to judge reality lmao
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Samefag.
Go preach elsewhere.

>Boil the world down to purely mechanistic and materialist worldviews
>what does that have to do with promoting consumerism
Why do you choose to stay alive if you don't believe in anything that cannot be recreated at will?

>Samefag
>Using the term this wrong
Go lurkmoar holy shit.

Suicide is a strictly pointless act.

Not as pointless as life if you believe that there is nothing beyond yourself, because somehow empiricism is a flawless method of perceiving the world around you and asserting what does and does not exist.

Oh no, considerably more pointless than that. Killing myself is just hastening something that's inevitable, why would I bother?

>empiricism is flawless

Claimed by literally no one. It being the best way to understand the world is not the same as it being flawless.

>Let's post a link without reading it first
I feel stupid for bothering to actual click it, only to find out it have fuck all to do with Muslim minorities.

>Being such a low iq autist that he thinks the post was supposed to be about Muslims
Consider suicide my man

>Hastening the inevitable is pointless.
Oh this so much, that is why instead of calling someone on their phone I walk all the way to their house to talk to them everytime I want to chat or make plans. Of course.
>It being the best way
Alright let's plays a game of bullshit semantics then.
>Implying empiricism is *any* way to judge reality properly

>Oh this so much, that is why instead of calling someone on their phone I walk all the way to their house to talk to them everytime I want to chat or make plans. Of course.

But those are not inevitable. You will not inevitably talk to them, or make plans with them, and there's a desirable outcome to hastening this process.

>Implying empiricism is *any* way to judge reality properly

You find me a more effective epistemological framework and I'll eat my hat. Empiricism seems to work very well for the sciences, which are how we discover things about reality.

This

They were oral traditions. Once all the people passing the oral tradition along have died out (or converted) that cultural line has been permanently severed.

Another thread full of potential.
Utterly ruined.

Pretty much.
This is one of the big reasons why I cannot stand Germanic "Pagans", so much information has been lost that attempting to practise it today is impossible.
At best you get pathetic LARPing and at worst you get Christianity with a thin "pagan" veneer.

it is actually christian morale to host them.. have you ever listened to the pope?

Christians ITT

>Doos voolt those dumb pagans r so stupid, look at me based black son in law who goes to church with my daughter

Bumpu.

hot

Pretty accurately, probably. We had the Eddas, we have archeological evidence from ritual sites, and we have surviving folklore and superstitions that reflect older religious beliefs.