Shadowman wrote:Actually between 8th and 14th centuries, and most of the written text came during and after Christianity took hold. In the centuries before that it was all spoken word.
I ment 7th not 17th.
And even with the fact that it was a spoken religion before that the God of Judism predates even the spoken time frame of the Germernic Gods.
Shadowman wrote:But other than that none of it fits. It's like Christian God being a Buddhist, why would the God of one mythology be a practitioner of another?
Well saying he "Believes" is far different then saying he is a practitioner, but thats a different debate.
As for your other statement....It actully fits a lot better then you would think.
Remember Thor is a God to his worshipers but what does Thor, himself, worship?????
The Nors Religion, like most Pagan religions, is one based on a "Class System", with "Greater" and "Lesser" Gods within its own pantheon.So itsnot hard to believe that they could have believed in a "God" above all Gods.
Even Odin acknowliges that "Those that sit above in Shadow" are Greater Gods then he himself is.But even those "Greater Gods" were part of the over all Norse Myth.
And the Norse Myth itself is fractured into 2 God sets.
Asgard home of the Aesir [aka Asgardians Odin Thor exctra]
Vanaheimr home of the Vanir [Njord ,father of the gods of Vanir,reyja a goddess of fertility]
The two groups are said to have waged war against one another for a very long time which ended in the unification of the two into a single group og Gods.
And the Gods of the Norse Myth believed that there were other Gods outside their own, Odin sought out the Goddes of Earth to bear him a son that was part of the Earth....that Son was Thor.
So as I said, Thor believing in a single "Greater" God above all "Gods" fits pretty well into the way their systom worked.
