Germanic religion isn’t undeveloped because it doesn’t have a kind of priority monism/cosmophysicism that other IE religions have, but just in general, much of the Germanic religion is undocumented or its finer more nuanced details were only recorded in extremely esoteric druidic circles. I don’t think thats controversial to say, in comparison to the iranic complex beliefs, there is a lot thats left unexplained or not elaborated upon. We never got to see a fully fleshed out system of karma or any ideas of enlightenment due to Christianity. We saw Odins sacrifice on the world tree in pursuit of esoteric knowledge but it wasn’t systematized or formalized like Hinduism and Buddhism. This is to the detriment of Germanic religion because contemporary practioners essentially just decide what the Germans believed and mix it into their Nietzschean or Esoteric Hitlerist belief systems. While “paganism” in general is more decentralized than abrahamic religions, its not good to lack a Orthodoxy or general frame of reference to identify it with. There are plenty of “norse pagans” who basically have a materialistic worldview despite the unlikelihood of ancient Germanic people sharing those ideas.
It’s either reconstructed with Platonism or Hinduism or remains in a kind of dry polytheistic state without much elaboration or explanation cosmically or metaphysically speaking. I think that IE peoples who became sedentary earlier in their history had more time to reflect on things like death, ascension and existential problems like suffering or the incompleteness found in the current configuration of consciousness. We kind of have an indeterminate development and only conjecture exists to determine these finer attributes.
I talked about this in my post about the problem of three resurrections a few weeks ago. In the Heliand, Jesus is described as a rune-master, and it is possible that the original version essentially replaced the Logos with the Rune
Ehh, kind of. Odin is offering gnosis, which is what the Gnostic christ offers, but he also achieves gnosis himself. Meanwhile, the Gnostic Christ is ethereal. Odin comes off more like the Buddha to me, but maybe I’m mischaracterizing the both of them.
I see the image of a Nokken I read the essay, I’m a simple man.
Also it seems all of these ancient religions agree on an underlying principle of reality that ordained things and the fact that for the Germans this was runes according to this fella, essentially harmonizes with the concept of logos or “word” found in stoic and Christian metaphysics doesn’t it?
I can ask him if he’d like to make an acc here, although I doubt he’d post much after just a few interactions with this app’s users.
Germanic religion isn’t undeveloped because it doesn’t have a kind of priority monism/cosmophysicism that other IE religions have, but just in general, much of the Germanic religion is undocumented or its finer more nuanced details were only recorded in extremely esoteric druidic circles. I don’t think thats controversial to say, in comparison to the iranic complex beliefs, there is a lot thats left unexplained or not elaborated upon. We never got to see a fully fleshed out system of karma or any ideas of enlightenment due to Christianity. We saw Odins sacrifice on the world tree in pursuit of esoteric knowledge but it wasn’t systematized or formalized like Hinduism and Buddhism. This is to the detriment of Germanic religion because contemporary practioners essentially just decide what the Germans believed and mix it into their Nietzschean or Esoteric Hitlerist belief systems. While “paganism” in general is more decentralized than abrahamic religions, its not good to lack a Orthodoxy or general frame of reference to identify it with. There are plenty of “norse pagans” who basically have a materialistic worldview despite the unlikelihood of ancient Germanic people sharing those ideas.
It’s either reconstructed with Platonism or Hinduism or remains in a kind of dry polytheistic state without much elaboration or explanation cosmically or metaphysically speaking. I think that IE peoples who became sedentary earlier in their history had more time to reflect on things like death, ascension and existential problems like suffering or the incompleteness found in the current configuration of consciousness. We kind of have an indeterminate development and only conjecture exists to determine these finer attributes.
I forget, when was this guy active? 2018?
He was still around in 2024, but barely. He was mainly around in 2018-2022 afaik
Runes run smack dab into John 1.
I talked about this in my post about the problem of three resurrections a few weeks ago. In the Heliand, Jesus is described as a rune-master, and it is possible that the original version essentially replaced the Logos with the Rune
Rather, He is the Rune. Odin's hanging concords through atemporial morphic resonance.
They’re similar in appearance, but the crucifixion was with very different intention compared to Odin’s hanging.
Yes. Odin mantled aspects of Jesus to gain power over reality, whereas Christ did so to restore Man and Creation.
It's the old left/right hand division, where L funhouse mirrors R.
is he suggesting that woden didn't believe in an afterlife
The first article has the same view of Woden that Hermetics (and possibly Gnostics) have of Christ
Ehh, kind of. Odin is offering gnosis, which is what the Gnostic christ offers, but he also achieves gnosis himself. Meanwhile, the Gnostic Christ is ethereal. Odin comes off more like the Buddha to me, but maybe I’m mischaracterizing the both of them.
I see the image of a Nokken I read the essay, I’m a simple man.
Also it seems all of these ancient religions agree on an underlying principle of reality that ordained things and the fact that for the Germans this was runes according to this fella, essentially harmonizes with the concept of logos or “word” found in stoic and Christian metaphysics doesn’t it?
Not to say you should bug him, but he is active on Steam and maintains a mod for Stellaris.
whats the name
Just "The Warg" bro
I mean the mos