How many here follow the Northern Way?
- Thread starter Azmodeus
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Patric
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Labandunga
The last with Pagan Blood
and my danish is not good too but did you mean yarrak?
Patric
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Labandunga
The last with Pagan Blood
Patric
Member
Labandunga
The last with Pagan Blood
Patric
Member
Labandunga
The last with Pagan Blood
hard times huh?
even worse last saturday ı got that britney's song stuck on my head with 5 beers ı got it out maybe u shuld try the same
cheers!
even worse last saturday ı got that britney's song stuck on my head with 5 beers ı got it out maybe u shuld try the same
cheers!
tal shiar agent 930
New Metal Member
Azmodeus said:
i wouldn't consider myself a odinist, but i do study the nordic religion somewhat, and have a high respect for it. i also wear thors hammer for 2 reasons:
1 - i respect the culture and the people behind it.
2- it looks awesome.
snow_like_ash
doooooooom meeeetaaaaalll
Cimmerian
bash master
Personally, the substitution of one shaky system of belief for another seems somewhat absurd. I do however wear a Thor's head hammer and here's why: Although I in no way believe in Norse religion, any more than I believe in Christianity, Judaism, etc... there are other ways to look at and appreciate things. If one looks at any religion and its figures as archetypes, and analyses not its mythologies, but its basic ethos, one can easily adopt that way of living, or percieving the world without buying into any sort of actual religious belief. I greatly appreciate the fundamental ethos of the old Norse religion, and I see the hammer around my neck as a representatio of that, and no more than that.
snow_like_ash
doooooooom meeeetaaaaalll
Cadarn
Bestia Romana
But saying that you make fool of people really believing in a religion. I mean, how you can appreciate things you dont believe at all in? The thing that Im always suspicious at is that 95% of the people who use to get close to norse religion and heathenism in general, wearing Thor's hammers around their necks are the same people who want to look evil wearing t-shirts with inversed crosses over. Is a kind of fashion now. I would spit back on the faces of people wearing my religious symbols only for is "cool".
Cimmerian
bash master
No Cadarn, I'm not insulting the religion or those who hold true belief in it, I'm simply saying that in terms of personal belief I detect no more authenticity in one religion's stories than another. I don't have to believe in a mythology to respect its message, and honor it in my own way...
DeathBlade
Member
You can honor it in your own way, but I think the point was, if you do so to be cool then fuck off.
what i think is a bit sad is that asatru seems to get more poplular amongst not only germanic folk but european people in general. why i think this is sad is because the various other european religions get more and more forgotten. everyone seems keen on odin and thor, but what about perun, jupiter, zeus, perkunas, cruachan and so on. cadarn, from what i remember you said you're from basque land. well, it's certainly your own decision, but aren't you interested in your own origional religion (adhur anyone)?
i haven't seen a similar popularity for the roman or greek pantheon for instance! i think that's a pitty! these religions have also a lot to offer!
i mean one could say that indo-european religions are really similar and all sprung from a common source long ago. but if people don't try to remember and revive their own myths and traditions, those will forever be lost!
i haven't seen a similar popularity for the roman or greek pantheon for instance! i think that's a pitty! these religions have also a lot to offer!
i mean one could say that indo-european religions are really similar and all sprung from a common source long ago. but if people don't try to remember and revive their own myths and traditions, those will forever be lost!
Belgar
The Wallonian Redneck.
Yeah all we need is a bunch of MTV kids to start wearing a Thor's hammer just to look cool. MTV, the rap and hiphop factory have already reduced the christian cross to a big money making symbol. I should ask all 'em gangsta rappers what type of value they attach to their so called cross? To me a black guy singing about blowing whitey's head with a sawed-off and hussling his way around town with his gold chain cross isn't reallt what this cross is supposed to represent? well that is if you don't take into account the last 2000 years of death and destruction this cross has shed upon the world. Now it seems trendy to wear a cross, dress like a clown, wear rags on yr heads and mix it up and you have 80% of america's youth.
Pls keep our northern values where they belong and that is hidden from most people and media.
That was my 2 cents for the day.
Pls keep our northern values where they belong and that is hidden from most people and media.
That was my 2 cents for the day.
DeathBlade
Member
"i haven't seen a similar popularity for the roman or greek pantheon for instance! i think that's a pitty! these religions have also a lot to offer!"
True, and after those one could add the native american religions and many, many more...
True, and after those one could add the native american religions and many, many more...
Brainkisser
Master of War
C'mon, greek myth has spawn tons of movies (Hercules in New York, tons of Illiad/Odyssey movies) and a very long running tv series- Hercules: The Legendary Journies (and Xena). The closest I've seen of Norse mythology is a two-part guest appearance on the aforementioned Hercules series.Fleischwolf said:
