Norse Mythology

Thursday, October 15, 2020

The nordic folklore was mostly oral until the 13th century. We do not have manuscripts dating to the early ages of the Vikings and Scandinavian peoples and their expansions. Their fantastic tales and sagas started being transcribed long after Christianity had supplanted the pagan ways of the Northern folk. The sources are hence mostly interpretations of the Nine Worlds, the Cosmos, the deities, and the humans they ruled. If you wish to know more about the mythical fables, the book of Neil Gaiman, an award-winning English writer of Polish origins, titled "Norse Mythology", is a good place to start. This book hit the shelves in 2017 and I recently listened to it while stuck in traffic. The author himself narrates it in a very captivating and splendid way. I always struggled to hit the pause button, and many times, I would remain in the car after reaching my destination just to listen to another 5 minutes of the story being told. For a visual person like me, listening to this Audible book was a delightful experience, creating lifelike imageries in my head and I would, at various instances, have to force myself to get back to my surroundings. It is indeed enchanting to get exposed to the lineage of Odin, the Aesir, the Giants, and the Dwarfs, and to finally understand what Ragnarok is all about: the apocalyptic destruction of the worlds and their rebirth. This goes against my spiritual upbringing, where villains are punished, and a deity is a supra being with an elevated thought or rhetoric that doesn't have "humanly reactions or discourse". My mind picked on the many similarities that can be drawn with Greek mythology or even more recent religious/divine visualizations, and I wonder could these different perceptions just be one and the same? Can the different consciousness levels transcending our differences one day unite us all as a single race, the human one? This is some food for thought... Meanwhile, enjoy the book, in either format or watch the series "Vikings" if you feel like a more dramatic dip into the legendary.

Post filed under

Explore more posts

Comments

Jaaaa, große und starke sowie wilde Männer mit dem Ziel ihre kleine Gemeinschaft zusammen mit ihren Gottheiten nach vorn zu bringen oder zu beschützen.

Ich habe immer gedacht - wenn ich damals gelebt hätte... ich wäre im ersten Winter schon gestorben. Bemerkenswert daher wie die "Nordmänner" es damals geschafft haben zu überleben - und noch zusätzlich andere Gebiete zu erobern.
Interessant wie Gottheiten entstanden sind durch Unwissenheit der biologischen, geologischen, astrologischen und astronomischen Gegebenheiten. Wie man "plausible" Geschöpfe erschaffen hat um seine Ängste und Sorgen zu dämpfen...

Danke für den interessanten Buchhinweis.

Noch interessanter ist, wie verschiedene Völker, die im ersten Blick nicht viel miteinander zu tun haben, ähnliche Glauben und Legenden erzählten und verbreiteten...

Add new comment

Plain text

  • No HTML tags allowed.
  • Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically.
  • Lines and paragraphs break automatically.

Tags

Cogito (556) Adventure (17) Death (51) God (18) Netflix (18) Flow (51) Nutrition (18) Dream (52) Crime (20) Knowledge (52) History (22) Heart (22) Mental Health (53) Carpe Diem (46) Fiction (29) Advent Calendar (30) Perspective (46) Travel (30) Stars (46) Audibles (33) Thankful (46) Harmony (35) Imperfection (46) Soul (37) Success (47) Books (40) Inspiration (47) Food (44) 45 Things I Learned (45) Resilience (47) Rest (45) Stress (45) Homemade (42) The 2020 Jar of Thoughts (39) Mind Body Soul (35) Higher Self (34) Impressions de Voyage (30) Frequency (31) True events (20) Financial Awareness 101 (26) Purpose (48) Writing (45) Accomplishment (45) Sensuality (49) Compassion (49) Finance (18) This and That (18) Kindness (52) How Can I Help You (361) Brazil (17) Passion (51) Courage (51) Creativity (49) Shine (50) Reading (45) Trust (49) Lebanon (22) Strength (53) Learning (53) Grateful (57) Magic (55) Pain (55) Truth (54) Happiness (66) Spirit (57) Universe (57) Films & Series (56) Hope (57) Science (57) Music (56) Mindset (55) Abundance (58) Awareness (58) Energy (65) Divine (64) Peace (64) Awakening (63) Love (63) Beauty (59) Women (53) Faith (67) Freedom (73) Foodie (84) Nature (75) Vibration (85) Meditation (77) Kaleidoscope (275) Lifestyle (130) Reviews (126) Spirituality (114) The Foodie's Corner (114) Consciousness (93) Healing (96) Blessing (69) Terra Mater (74) Environment (81) Growth (82) Health (80) Soul Connection (81) Life (78)