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@VirginCrusader @bigtony @ankokukishi @Hoss @c amusing and definitely going to rattle the bones of most neopagans (who are larpers), but pre-christian religion (back when it was sincerely practiced) was often decentralized and without a single canon. the sagas contradict each other a lot, the eddas (composed much later) even more so. other pagan texts like the greek epics and the kalavela and bēowulf are going to be even more internally inconsistent. the practce of religion was very different then to christian insistence on the singular authority of doctrine (+ rome and/or the bible). talking about what odin "did" is difficult precisely because there's very little everybody will agree odin did, and plenty of local traditions would have made up their own stories (all stories about odin are made-up because odin is made-up, but you get my point, i hope).

it's sort of like looking at nigger bible scholars saying jesus was a queer brown immigrant muslim, and concluding that christianity is Le Gay Brownoid religion -- which, incidentally, is also a lot of these pagans' error.