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Why?

>>12882427
99% of """Norse mythology""" comes from two books anyway, and even then the idea that pagan cultures had a codified religion is a modern perversion of ancient cultures.

I'd totally be a pagan if there was actually theology. Not knowing what god to pray to on what day and having to know a billion different offerings, prayers, practices is annoying. Pagans aren't even capable of agreeing on an afterlife as a whole. The entire idea is a mess and for cultural purposes, Christianity is a hundred times better in every single aspect.
Never understood why people would want to revert back to cluelessness.

>>12882498
>I want my religion with a heavy dose of slavery

>>12882498
>>12882498
I know this is just a tv show, but this scene actually provides a very good example of proper prayer.
https://youtu.be/Frm7_mBGwcY
The gods are not there for us, they are not our servants, and this gives us proper grounding in the world. It is hubris to assume that the gods are so weak as to kneel down from the heavens to cleanse the wounds we have given ourselves. We must rise to them, and prayer should serve as something of a ritual of death of ourselves - only asking the gods for guidance when we are confronted with a true path of nihilism and revelation, the treacherous path of a new becoming.
Such a clear division between worlds demands that we submit to a hierarchy which is beyond us, but also have the strength of being on our own in this world. This duality may be the major difference between paganism and Christianity, and why the divine justice apprehended by the former is weakened into moral law by the latter.
Any attempt to invoke the will of gods is a dangerous endeavour, as it potentially releases their power into our world. We are then confronted by laws and forces which we cannot contain - mere appearance of the gods may destroy us, hence why we must tread a path which is decisive yet demands a territory where we are returned to our worldly weakness. Gods arise from both great chasms and tiny shadows, and we must approach such laws in the same way that we are confronted with climbing a mountain or crossing a bog. Christianity's great weakness, which is also its strength, lies in its assumption that the will and law of God is already known, a certainty - along with a form of rites which attempt to revivify as they lay to rest. The baptism is also a continuation of the funeral oratory.
Your spirit is already within you, it is a right of birth and your eternal being. There is both a hierarchy of the gods and a path which follows your own essence. It is as if you are lost in the woods, and your spirit will determine what territory lies ahead, the beasts you must slay, the tricks you must endure, the gods you are confronted with, the men who will try to ambush you, and the woman who try to seduce you. In the end you will arrive in great celebration or further wandering, and you will have to tell your tale to the gods or dead men, from which you will then receive unknown judgement.
It is impossibly difficult to accept the uncertain, but the laws of the heavens will never be completely revealed to us. Assumption that the heavens abide by worldly laws leads men to think that they can bend the god will to them, but we exist as the wisps of memory in the minds of gods. Our will is ever so slight, and confined to the immediacy of our surroundings - to which, even then, may collapse beneath our weight.
>>12882427
There is a strong resurgence of paganism, and the books are already available.
https://youtu.be/FnkTuHP9q3o