AskSatanOperator
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In Indo European Paganism there are many myths about our Gods fighting each other. Aesir vs Vanir, Zeus vs Prometheus, Perun vs Veles, etc.
But why would we worship multiple Gods who hate each other? Why would one God tolerate someone giving an offering to an opposing God?
Many more mainstream Pagans, such as Varg Vikernes, or Survive The Jive, simply write off the Pagan Gods as being metaphors, or forces of nature, with their conflicts simply being allegories. According to their view, any conflicts between the Gods are not serious, because the Gods are not as real as the Abrahamic God is to Abrahamicists.
Yet Joy of Satan does not have such a doctrine on mythology. Our Gods are REAL beings, with REAL relationships and goals. Therefore logically the enemies of our Gods are the Jewish Elohim, not eachbother. Joy of Satan is the only group I have come across that preaches a version of Paganism that actually makes sense.
So why do these myths exist? Mainstream historians, who do not know anything about spirituality, simply assume that this is what ancient people believed, that their Gods were real (which they indeed did) and that they tolerated the worshipping of other Gods, yet they themselves were fighting each other, how does that make sense? What kind of pantheon of Gods hate each other?
The conclusion I have come to is that these myths never existed to the Pagans, at least not in the form we have today that was "preserved" by Christian monks. What I suspect is that the early Christian missionaries simply took the Pagan Gods as characters, and rewrote our mythology to be a parallel with the Bible (to make conversion easy perhaps). For example the conflict between Zeus and Prometheus is very clearly an allegory of Yahweh and Satan, yet Zeus is not Yahweh, he is a brother of Satan, Jews simply rewrote their mythology using our Gods as characters. This is what I suspect at least.
Anyways, my question is simply what are these myths and why do we have them?
But why would we worship multiple Gods who hate each other? Why would one God tolerate someone giving an offering to an opposing God?
Many more mainstream Pagans, such as Varg Vikernes, or Survive The Jive, simply write off the Pagan Gods as being metaphors, or forces of nature, with their conflicts simply being allegories. According to their view, any conflicts between the Gods are not serious, because the Gods are not as real as the Abrahamic God is to Abrahamicists.
Yet Joy of Satan does not have such a doctrine on mythology. Our Gods are REAL beings, with REAL relationships and goals. Therefore logically the enemies of our Gods are the Jewish Elohim, not eachbother. Joy of Satan is the only group I have come across that preaches a version of Paganism that actually makes sense.
So why do these myths exist? Mainstream historians, who do not know anything about spirituality, simply assume that this is what ancient people believed, that their Gods were real (which they indeed did) and that they tolerated the worshipping of other Gods, yet they themselves were fighting each other, how does that make sense? What kind of pantheon of Gods hate each other?
The conclusion I have come to is that these myths never existed to the Pagans, at least not in the form we have today that was "preserved" by Christian monks. What I suspect is that the early Christian missionaries simply took the Pagan Gods as characters, and rewrote our mythology to be a parallel with the Bible (to make conversion easy perhaps). For example the conflict between Zeus and Prometheus is very clearly an allegory of Yahweh and Satan, yet Zeus is not Yahweh, he is a brother of Satan, Jews simply rewrote their mythology using our Gods as characters. This is what I suspect at least.
Anyways, my question is simply what are these myths and why do we have them?