Don't forget this movie is made by a Christian man, and he is portraying the heathen peoples as dumb barbarians willing to sacrifice their own children. Icelanders never sacrificed their own children to the gods, only slaves, criminals and foreigners. The elderly sometimes killed themselves for the good of the tribe, retarded and crippled children were also killed. Human offerings were extremely rare and considered the most sacred form of Blót, they were only conducted at Alþingi.
@Hoddmimisholt Thanks for the comment. I think it is true that in 99 % of all cases criminals, foreigners were sacrificed. But the man who made the movie,portrayed the Christians as cruel and primitive in his other movie "Embla". I don't think he wanted to give the heathens a negative image.
Heathens were very different from our Christian-based cultural identity today. In the temple of Uppsala 9 males of every living creature were sacrificed hanging on trees. A real Heathen can understand why.
I'm not saying I'm right or wrong, but from my understanding christians used excuses to colonize other countries.I have a bad feeling on the sacrifice part too.
I noticed the uncanny resemblances with other mythologys.They all seem to die when the world ends, but in the bible in mathew jesus lives on through the bible, also the story of Noah when the floods comes about.It looks like the christians killed Odin, his story was kind of cut short in his life in Ragnorok
@kmichael212 Alternatively Ragnorok might just be the notion that everthying in life comes to an end.
If you life with nature such as the Pagans did you can feel that noting is eternal...not even the mighty and the strong...not even the the ones that seem immortal, not even the gods.
Science today shows the dinosaurs became extinct after ruling the world for an eternity and science also shows that our solar system will come to an end one day and the sun will die, so will life and human kind.
@Stormyman81 Your right on that one, I read in the age of ragnorok a flood
happens just like the other 25 flood myths I read from each culture on the online
wikipedia page.In hindu mythology the age of kali yuga , at the very end of this age it claims a world wide flood happens again. I myself was just comparing the mytholgys of odin to every other diety from each culture, and what I found were very similiar storys.Especially the suffering he goes through on the tree.
@kmichael212 They sure did - even in the Eddas. But Odin surely was a lot different from the Christian god. He sometimes demanded human sacrifices and human sacrifices were part of several ceremonies. But if you believe in entering Asgard, being claimed by Odin surely isn't the worst thing...
the stories and names of odin varied greatly from place to place and the time of dual faith had a christian influence on paganism. There are many parralels between christ and odin
Don't forget this movie is made by a Christian man, and he is portraying the heathen peoples as dumb barbarians willing to sacrifice their own children. Icelanders never sacrificed their own children to the gods, only slaves, criminals and foreigners. The elderly sometimes killed themselves for the good of the tribe, retarded and crippled children were also killed. Human offerings were extremely rare and considered the most sacred form of Blót, they were only conducted at Alþingi.
Hoddmimisholt 10 months ago 2
@Hoddmimisholt Thanks for the comment. I think it is true that in 99 % of all cases criminals, foreigners were sacrificed. But the man who made the movie,portrayed the Christians as cruel and primitive in his other movie "Embla". I don't think he wanted to give the heathens a negative image.
Heathens were very different from our Christian-based cultural identity today. In the temple of Uppsala 9 males of every living creature were sacrificed hanging on trees. A real Heathen can understand why.
Stormyman81 10 months ago
@Hoddmimisholt Yes, that is right )
Vardlokur 5 months ago
@Hoddmimisholt
You sure about that? Håkan Jarl from Norway sacrificed his own 7 years old son for better luck in the battle against the jomsvikings at Hjörungavåg.
Flyingtart 3 months ago
@Hoddmimisholt (y)
VikingFromHalland 4 days ago
I'm not saying I'm right or wrong, but from my understanding christians used excuses to colonize other countries.I have a bad feeling on the sacrifice part too.
I noticed the uncanny resemblances with other mythologys.They all seem to die when the world ends, but in the bible in mathew jesus lives on through the bible, also the story of Noah when the floods comes about.It looks like the christians killed Odin, his story was kind of cut short in his life in Ragnorok
kmichael212 1 year ago
@kmichael212 Alternatively Ragnorok might just be the notion that everthying in life comes to an end.
If you life with nature such as the Pagans did you can feel that noting is eternal...not even the mighty and the strong...not even the the ones that seem immortal, not even the gods.
Science today shows the dinosaurs became extinct after ruling the world for an eternity and science also shows that our solar system will come to an end one day and the sun will die, so will life and human kind.
Stormyman81 1 year ago
@Stormyman81 Your right on that one, I read in the age of ragnorok a flood
happens just like the other 25 flood myths I read from each culture on the online
wikipedia page.In hindu mythology the age of kali yuga , at the very end of this age it claims a world wide flood happens again. I myself was just comparing the mytholgys of odin to every other diety from each culture, and what I found were very similiar storys.Especially the suffering he goes through on the tree.
kmichael212 1 year ago
Does anyone here think christians changed the story of Odin around a little bit?
kmichael212 1 year ago
@kmichael212 They sure did - even in the Eddas. But Odin surely was a lot different from the Christian god. He sometimes demanded human sacrifices and human sacrifices were part of several ceremonies. But if you believe in entering Asgard, being claimed by Odin surely isn't the worst thing...
Stormyman81 1 year ago
@kmichael212
the stories and names of odin varied greatly from place to place and the time of dual faith had a christian influence on paganism. There are many parralels between christ and odin
ThomasRowsell 1 year ago