Are the Norse Mythology the ones who know ?

Question

What to watch for:
A three-season-long winter. Of course, with all the mindless killing we’ll be doing, we'll barely notice.
What comes next:
Wolves eat the sun, Norse Trickster God Loki escapes from ropes made of his son’s intestines and hijacks a ship made of dead men’s toenails, and Jörmungandr, the World Serpent, rises from the oceans and spews poison across the lands and skies. Regardless of the fact that they know full well how the whole damn thing is going to end, the gods stab, poison, burn and eat each other until Earth sinks into the ocean.
Can you survive it?
We have a really narrow window here. The short version is that this is all Loki’s fault, despite that he’s currently tied up beneath the world getting venom dripped into his eyes. Once he gets free, you can’t turn around anywhere on Earth without bumping into dragons, fallen world trees and cowardly Viking zombies.
Only two humans, Lif and Lifthrasir, are scheduled to survive Ragnarök by hiding in the Yggdrasil, the world tree. It stands to reason that a tree large enough to connect hell, Earth and the heavens together would have plenty of places to hide, though

Answer 1

ok..... what version are you reading?


becuse a lot of things arnt making any sense.

like loki "Hi-jacking" the ship.

and the gods are not killing themselves, they are preparing for the end battle.

Viking zombies? i dont even want to know what you are getting that from. Zombies don't exist in norse mythology. Not particularly.

the 2 humans get lucky, and by the time the final battle occurs most of humanity is already dead.

A single wolf, eats the sun, not wolves.

The earth doesnt seek into the ocean (I have no idea WHERE you go that passage. Considering the fire giant Surt burns the universe to mostly ash when he dies)

Im not going to bother with the rest there are 2 many inacuracies, and im going to move on to what Asatru, the inheritors of norse mythology, have to say on it.

Generaly we have changed a lot of things based on science. We feel that the gods and the monsters act more as forces then as actual creatures. We arnt sure whats going to happen to the sun. The war represents the decay of society into weakness and what Asatruars consider "evil" (infact some say without it Ragnarok can't even start) winter is belevied to be related to the sun. (could be a meteor striking the earth and raising dust clouds and the resulting winter.)

now regarding the ragnarok myth. Some asatru believe the myth to be tainted. If not pure propaganda. Mostly becuse the end is trying to make a place for "god". It is only seen in the change over to christianity and scholars believe it to mostly be how the populace (which was forced into christianity) dealt with the change.

Also the concept of inevietable fate isnt what most think of it as. Wyrd is the modern expression. Wyrd is a blank rune, generally associated with a bad maening, its really either or. It means that there is a force (considdered to be Yggdrasil) that is at work. its essentially like Karma. Most feel that it means to just let things be and have faith in your values and strenghts and abillitys. The runes are saying that the solution/answer is one you can not see. or one you are not yet ready for. It is the promise of potential.

Some Asatru view Ragnarok like that. The details are potential, and some may be wrong. We dont belive our texts are perfect, like Abrahamic faiths do.

I hope I managed to clear some things up.

About your question we wont know until things start deteriorating. The war among men is what happens first, which is why its believed that
The breaking of the bonds starts with men and as such we say when it starts. (well we essentially decide when it starts)

A lot of Asatruars feel that ragnarok will happen, and the final battle is merely a prediction of what may happen. like a worst case scenario. There was a faction that felt it has already happened.

Answer 2

The Romans equated Thor with Jupiter as is evident from written material of the time and the fact that Latin based languages (French, Spanish, Italian) call Thursday "Jupiterday". Jupiter was the Roman name for Zeus, I suppose the correlation was the use of lightning as a weapon (Thor's hammer is the source of lightning in Norse myth) Germanic mythology dates back to the stone age in one form or another, it's Norse arm became clarified during the Viking age (793-1066CE) and was eventually codified in the Codex Regius sometime in the 13th century long after all it's practitioners had converted to Christianity. Roman mythology is kind of an oxymoron since the Romans simply appropriated greek mythology. Notions of deities being associated with planets is a relatively new idea, the ancients for the most part were unaware that the planets were anything other than stars (to the naked eye Venus, Mercury and Mars are all visible as bright objects about the same size as stars around them). The planets may well be named after Roman deities today but this has nothing whatsoever to do with the Romans themselves. Additional questions: The main god of the Germanic/Norse pantheon began as Tyr (known as Tiwaz in proto-germanic) but was eventually superceded by Odin/Woden/Wodenaz and Ing-Frey in Sweden. The main god of Greek myth was Zeus and his Roman name Jupiter. Zeus is head of the Greek pantheon because he is the patriarch of the other gods, similarly Odin is the father of almost all the Aesir and Ing-Frey was considered the god of kingship and as such a king of gods. The ages of these myths are hard to pin down, Germanic myth as far as we know is at least as old as the proto-germanic language which is a successor of proto-indoeuropean which is believed to be the first language used in Europe by Homo Sapiens (the language of the previous Europeans the neanderthals is lost) so it could be spuriously dated to the end of the last major glacial period of the current ice age. Roman mythology can be easily dated to the Roman conquest of Greece but Greek myth is undoubtedly older still but is tied to a non germanic language family. It could easily be as old as the germanic mythology or even older but we simply have no way to tell.

Answer 3

I guess I can conclude outright that if this is Norse Mythology at its finest, it is utter horseshit. Great research, but totally wacky tabaccy. I'll take Scientology's spaceship parked in the Kuiper Belt over this mental masturbation.

Answer 4

This and the biblical armaggeddon, I find both to be preposterous. The Xtians will tell you this is ridiculous and made up, but it sounds strangely similar to their story. Which is just as made up.

Answer 5

It's always one hell of a party when Ragnarok comes around! Weeee-ha!
http://youtube.com/watch?v=2d-etOmQeFM

Answer 6

Did you tell Marla where the Yggdrasil is?

Answer 7

The ancient Persian religion of Zoroastrianism is better i think!!now all you have to do is tell us what the aztecs would do!:)