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Are there people that still believe in Norse mythology?
#17046229 - 10/17/12 12:51 AM (11 years, 3 months ago) |
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Or Greek mythology, basically any ancient polytheistic mythologies like that.
I knew this guy once that was into Viking Metal, and he claimed to be a "Pagan" that believed in Odin and all of that, but it seemed pretty obvious that he was just pursuing a certain style, and wasn't genuine in his convictions.
I would guess that that kind of mythology quickly became irrelevant outside of the medieval tribe war culture.
But what be the answer to my question?
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Re: Are there people that still believe in Norse mythology? [Re: Celestial Traveler]
#17046266 - 10/17/12 01:04 AM (11 years, 3 months ago) |
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dude this is a mushroom website, someone here is bound to know some serious shit about paganism.
edit: but not me. but i do believe in pan and the mother goddess
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Edited by jack_straw2208 (10/17/12 01:04 AM)
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Re: Are there people that still believe in Norse mythology? [Re: Celestial Traveler]
#17046268 - 10/17/12 01:04 AM (11 years, 3 months ago) |
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Naw, but I consider my connection to those ancestors pretty significant, especially when it comes to psychedelic mushrooms.
I like the way they tripped and went onto war. Or at least they would work themselves up into a trip. I can relate to that, but I also want nothing to do with the raping and pillaging. The realities of that kinda suck.
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Re: Are there people that still believe in Norse mythology? [Re: moonrockmushy]
#17046269 - 10/17/12 01:05 AM (11 years, 3 months ago) |
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jack_straw2208 said: dude this is a mushroom website, someone here is bound to know some serious shit about paganism.
edit: but not me. but i do believe in pan and the mother goddess
Then let them speak.
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moonrockmushy said: Naw, but I consider my connection to those ancestors pretty significant, especially when it comes to psychedelic mushrooms.
I like the way they tripped and went onto war. Or at least they would work themselves up into a trip. I can relate to that, but I also want nothing to do with the raping and pillaging. The realities of that kinda suck.
Pagans used mushrooms?
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Re: Are there people that still believe in Norse mythology? [Re: moonrockmushy]
#17046273 - 10/17/12 01:06 AM (11 years, 3 months ago) |
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moonrockmushy said: Naw, but I consider my connection to those ancestors pretty significant, especially when it comes to psychedelic mushrooms.
I like the way they tripped and went onto war. Or at least they would work themselves up into a trip. I can relate to that, but I also want nothing to do with the raping and pillaging. The realities of that kinda suck.
i've been told the mushrooms-to-go-berserk thing turned out to be a myth. but they did have shamans who would eat fly agaric mushrooms for guidance and probably for fun to some extent
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Re: Are there people that still believe in Norse mythology? [Re: Celestial Traveler]
#17046276 - 10/17/12 01:07 AM (11 years, 3 months ago) |
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Yeah, or at least that is a fairly common intpretation of history. Vikings would eat mushrooms to psych themselves up for war. I assume the folks at stonehenge were munching liberty caps fall festival
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Re: Are there people that still believe in Norse mythology? [Re: moonrockmushy]
#17046277 - 10/17/12 01:07 AM (11 years, 3 months ago) |
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Lol how the fuck could someone go to war on mushrooms?
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Re: Are there people that still believe in Norse mythology? [Re: Celestial Traveler]
#17046284 - 10/17/12 01:10 AM (11 years, 3 months ago) |
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You have no idea how I trip. It makes me an animal.
How can you go to war without tripping?
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Re: Are there people that still believe in Norse mythology? [Re: jack_straw2208]
#17046285 - 10/17/12 01:10 AM (11 years, 3 months ago) |
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moonrockmushy said: Naw, but I consider my connection to those ancestors pretty significant, especially when it comes to psychedelic mushrooms.
I like the way they tripped and went onto war. Or at least they would work themselves up into a trip. I can relate to that, but I also want nothing to do with the raping and pillaging. The realities of that kinda suck.
i've been told the mushrooms-to-go-berserk thing turned out to be a myth. but they did have shamans who would eat fly agaric mushrooms for guidance and probably for fun to some extent
I would like a source on this
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Re: Are there people that still believe in Norse mythology? [Re: moonrockmushy]
#17046286 - 10/17/12 01:10 AM (11 years, 3 months ago) |
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Yeah I'll concede to that.
But I cannot imagine one going to war on Psilocybin mushrooms.
Tripping on PCP, more specifically, perhaps.
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Re: Are there people that still believe in Norse mythology? [Re: Celestial Traveler]
#17046299 - 10/17/12 01:16 AM (11 years, 3 months ago) |
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I would only do mushrooms, and only a bit. It makes things sharp and surreal in a way that seems suitable for war, at least in low doses.
That said I'd prefer to avoid war, it makes for a mindfuck in the end. I'd rather live to be a happy tripping old man.
But yeah, I'll put some faith in their extreme arcetypes for humans.
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Re: Are there people that still believe in Norse mythology? [Re: Celestial Traveler]
#17046303 - 10/17/12 01:19 AM (11 years, 3 months ago) |
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Yeah I'll concede to that.
But I cannot imagine one going to war on Psilocybin mushrooms.
The legend is that Norse berserkers took Amanita mushrooms before battle, not Psilocybe. 
Also you have to wonder what happens to all these long-forgotten deities... is Loki somewhere out there lurking in the hearts of the few true believers still left to remember his name?
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Re: Are there people that still believe in Norse mythology? [Re: deCypher]
#17046319 - 10/17/12 01:24 AM (11 years, 3 months ago) |
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i once saw a man in a tram who yelled about a big mom in forest and even bigger and powerful sons of her. his fleece was written all over in incorrect english something like norway viking 50000 years 
but my mother is a pagan goes to holy forest and shit. most of estonians think themselves as pagans actually
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Re: Are there people that still believe in Norse mythology? [Re: madis503]
#17046334 - 10/17/12 01:30 AM (11 years, 3 months ago) |
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madis503 said: i once saw a man in a tram who yelled about a big mom in forest and even bigger and powerful sons of her. his fleece was written all over in incorrect english something like norway viking 50000 years 
but my mother is a pagan goes to holy forest and shit. most of estonians think themselves as pagans actually
Fuck yeah This dude is living it.
Are you from the country? Does your mother hunt mushrooms?
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Re: Are there people that still believe in Norse mythology? [Re: moonrockmushy]
#17046382 - 10/17/12 01:51 AM (11 years, 3 months ago) |
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y€es I still believe in norse mytholoy and follow the old norse religion (or as near as we understand it to have been). I've been a member of the asatru faith for about 7 or 8 years now. if you have any questions feel free to ask em.
As for the mushrooms leading to berserkerangr that has never been conclusively proven and personally I'm doubtful of the claims. However the use of psychedelic mushrooms for other religious purposes, visions, etc I'm fully in support of.
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deCypher said: Also you have to wonder what happens to all these long-forgotten deities... is Loki somewhere out there lurking in the hearts of the few true believers still left to remember his name? 
The gods are far from forgotten, worlwide there are estimated to be roughly a million or more of us who still follow the old gods. although the worship of loki in particular is somewhat contentious.
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Edited by Bjorn_Stormcrow (10/17/12 01:54 AM)
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Re: Are there people that still believe in Norse mythology? [Re: moonrockmushy]
#17046415 - 10/17/12 02:16 AM (11 years, 3 months ago) |
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my mother is exactly the person who should trip psychedelics, unfortunately she is against it, she even hasnt been drunk. im trying to convince her to eat shrooms together. and yes im from estonia. i have read that estonians in the coast line were even better vikings than nordic people.. but yeah i have been with those people in these holy forests. for entry you have to step through a gate and knock once on a hanging wood piece above( sry my english) what has a svastika on it. need to be quiet also. most of these hills/forests are forgotten or i mean churches built there long time ago.
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Re: Are there people that still believe in Norse mythology? [Re: madis503]
#17046453 - 10/17/12 02:43 AM (11 years, 3 months ago) |
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madis503 said: my mother is exactly the person who should trip psychedelics, unfortunately she is against it, she even hasnt been drunk. im trying to convince her to eat shrooms together. and yes im from estonia. i have read that estonians in the coast line were even better vikings than nordic people.. but yeah i have been with those people in these holy forests. for entry you have to step through a gate and knock once on a hanging wood piece above( sry my english) what has a svastika on it. need to be quiet also. most of these hills/forests are forgotten or i mean churches built there long time ago.
Interesting. I'm wary of the racist implications, I would probably piss on a piece of wood with a swastika on it, but I mean no personal offense. I have just always been taught that the swastika is a symbol of hate.
I am investigating some of the long-fallen churches of the native american people in my area, but there are not many left and they never used mushrooms to my knowledge. I have european ancestry but I also feel connected to the people who lived where I live.
Around here it is mostly about lines of stones, standing stones, balance rocks, and maybe small caves.
Edited by moonrockmushy (10/17/12 02:44 AM)
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Re: Are there people that still believe in Norse mythology? [Re: moonrockmushy]
#17046461 - 10/17/12 02:50 AM (11 years, 3 months ago) |
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moonrockmushy said:
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madis503 said: my mother is exactly the person who should trip psychedelics, unfortunately she is against it, she even hasnt been drunk. im trying to convince her to eat shrooms together. and yes im from estonia. i have read that estonians in the coast line were even better vikings than nordic people.. but yeah i have been with those people in these holy forests. for entry you have to step through a gate and knock once on a hanging wood piece above( sry my english) what has a svastika on it. need to be quiet also. most of these hills/forests are forgotten or i mean churches built there long time ago.
Interesting. I'm wary of the racist implications, I would probably piss on a piece of wood with a swastika on it, but I mean no personal offense. I have just always been taught that the swastika is a symbol of hate.
I am investigating some of the long-fallen churches of the native american people in my area, but there are not many left and they never used mushrooms to my knowledge. I have european ancestry but I also feel connected to the people who lived where I live.
Around here it is mostly about lines of stones, standing stones, balance rocks, and maybe small caves.
Lol correct me if I'm wrong (which I may be), you seem to show some "pride" you may call it, or fascination with the Viking War culture.
...but your against the Swastika because it's a symbol of hate?
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Re: Are there people that still believe in Norse mythology? [Re: Celestial Traveler]
#17046479 - 10/17/12 03:04 AM (11 years, 3 months ago) |
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Well, technically I don't have Norse ancestors to my knowledge, but Irish and north German, and I assume they are all intermixed.
Yeah, I totally relate to them as individuals and spiritual beings, but I want nothing to do with Nazis.
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Re: Are there people that still believe in Norse mythology? [Re: moonrockmushy]
#17046484 - 10/17/12 03:08 AM (11 years, 3 months ago) |
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we had vikings on islands and coast line. this place i sometimes visit is inland so i dony know if the svastika is related to vikings or not. its not so plain simple svastika it has more branches..
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