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English - February 14, 2022 15:51 - 1 hour - 67.5 MB - ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsReligion Religion & Spirituality catholicism atheist history belief atheism catholic agnostic holy holidays christian Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Thor and Odin are well known today, but are these images faithful to the source material?
There's more to the Norse religious tradition than the bit of mythology that makes it into the movies. It's a complex system with a rich poetic tradition. Unfortunately, much is lost to time.
The Marvel Cinematic Universe, and the comics that inspire it, have told wonderful stories about the figures of Thor, Odin, and Loki, and their many companions, but the family tree and the cosmology is far more complex than what we see in most popular fiction.
The North Germanic pagan tradition is alive today, but things have gotten complicated. White Nationalism including groups like the Sons of Odin have taken up the names of these figures of faith and power, in the hopes of intimidating their "lesser" opponents.
Join us as we explore the Eddas, and the things that Marvel and the Nazis got wrong.
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