Pagans do you have scripture?

Question

Where do you go when you die?

pagans afraid to answer?

yall scare me, it's like the movie Dragnet.

Answer 1

Being Heathen, or Germanic Pagan, I wouldn't say that we have "scripture". We do have the sagas which are mythological tales that in the very early times were passed generation to generation via story-telling. Nothing was wrote down until the conversion to Christianity.

Although we read the sagas and other Norse myths for an understanding of our people and their religious beliefs, we are not bogged down by dogma akin to the Christian bible. We do have moral codes called the nine noble virtues:

Courage
Truth
Honour
Fidelity
Discipline
Hospitality
Self Reliance
Industriousness
Perseverance

We do realize that it doesn't take religion to make one moral and that a moral person doesn't have to be religious. These are not commandments and one is not condemed by not following anything strictly. You do what is right simply because it is so - otherwise you and your clan/family have to live with it through the collective wyrd (luck for lack of a better term) and your individual wyrd.

As far as death - that depends on the Pagan as well as the individual. In Heathenism (aka Asatru), there are many options. Rebirth, sticking around in spiritual form to aid decendents, going to one of the many halls of the gods or goddesses, or going to Hel. Hel, in this case, is not the Hell of the Christians (although I'm sure the word was taken from Norse/Germanic mythology). Hel heim (realm) is ruled by Hel - a giantess. Is is called the place of our ancestors as many of our ancestors eventually go there. Nifel-hel is the place where the condemned are sent.

Other types of Pagans who worship other gods (Egyptian, Celtic, Roman, Greek, etc) believe in a different "life after death" if you will.

Answer 2

"Pagan" denotes a organization of religions. There is little if something ordinary amongst they all. They undoubtedly don't agree on a holy ebook. While a few Pagan faiths have holy texts, I recognize of none that are in accordance a reputation very similar to the Bible inside Christianity. They more commonly aren't books that should be adopted to the letter otherwise. Wicca has not anything that would be known as scripture. I don't have any concept what Lexa is occurring approximately. I'm wholly unfamiliar with that colossal reduce and paste. It does have a handful of portions which can be normally used such because the Charge of the Goddess, however I could equate that with a trendy hymn greater than with "scripture." Wicca and Pagan aren't synonyms. Wicca is a Pagan faith. Paganism is a organization of religions. THere are many, many non-Wiccan Pagans.

Answer 3

Pagan is a rather broad word. Which Pagans are you asking? Wiccan, Druid, Natives all over the world.
The answers are different for each group.

Native American is the only that I can answer for and that is only of my own tribe. Siksika Blackfoot do not have a book to read from nor a script. We learn from our elders and holy people through song, story, dance and ceremony.
Old Native Saying "We do not write our prayers in a book because after many years of rain and life the words in a book become old faded and finally disappear. You cannot wash away a story told from one persons lips to another ear."

When we die we go on to the spirit world with our ancestors to help guide the future generations.

Answer 4

Pagan Witch here. No, there is no scripture, for some odd reason we don't seem to need a rule book to tell us right from wrong, or give us some persons opinion of what is to come! No man nor Goddess/God has put down in writing what I feel in my heart.
It is my belief that when we die we go to a place we call "Summerland" where we can rest and reflect on the lessons learned during this incarnation and can look forward to decide what we need to learn in the next one.
The body is only a temporary vessel for the spirit.
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Answer 5

Not exactly. We have a number of stories, depending on which form of Paganism you're talking about. Asatru have the Eddas, Celtic Reconstructionists have the Lebor Gabala (Book of Invasions), etc. But they aren't treated the same way that, say, Christians treat the Bible. They're the record of what happened in the past, but I've yet to hear of there being many Eddas-Thumpers, for instance.

For the Celts, when we die, we go to the Otherworld. There's a number of places in the Otherworld, so where exactly we end up over there is a bit fuzzy, but there's places like Tir na nOg (Land of the Young) or Tir na mBan (Land of the Women).


And as for the "afraid to answer" jab - oh please. It's before 9am Eastern, most of us haven't had our coffee yet.

Answer 6

Not in the same sense that Christians do, no. We don't believe that the Gods wrote anything.
We have the Eddas, we have the ruins of temples, the letters of travelers, etc. We peice that together in order to learn what our ancestors believed and we build on that. WE are our holybook. WE are our scripture. We trust in US.
I will go back to my ancestors when I die, I go back to my gods. I'm not going to burn anywhere. I am not an oathbreaker or a murderer, so I won't be cast on the shore or eaten by a serpent or anything. We live for NOW and today. We answer to ourselves. I trust my ancestors to guide me, but in the end, I make my own choices. My gods expect no less.

edit: That's ok, ya'll scare me. It's like Jesus Camp

Answer 7

As a Wiccan I have nothing I would call scripture. There are stories with great meaning, but they aren't viewed the same way as Christian scripture. There is nothing unquestionable in Wicca nor anything you're supposed to accept just becaue its been written down.

Answer 8

Pagans do you have scripture?

-Not in the sense you'd consider scripture. We have writ, however.

Where do you go when you die?

-Paganism is hundreds of religions, and they vary.
As where I go when I die:
"Do not reveal the mysteries to those who cannot be trusted with them."

Answer 9

I have the blood of the lamb wrapped in a vile around my neck.
Thats all the scripture I need.

Answer 10

We go across the street from you..... The only difference is that the beer is better at our place, the crowd is jollier, you can smoke and the prices are dirt cheap!