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Re: Religion and Holidays, were Socialism (WAS: Re: Why Can't We Just Not Talk Politics?

From:Costentin Cornomorus <elemtilas@...>
Date:Saturday, December 27, 2003, 1:36
--- "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...> wrote:
> Hope those of you who celebrate Christmas had a > merry one . . .
And for those of us who have not yet celebrated Christmas, have a happy one upcomming!
> > The theme of the "kingship in heaven", where > successive waves of new gods > > supersede the old ones, seems to be a Semitic > notion that the Greeks > > picked up at some point, perhaps when they > invaded Greece and mixed with > > the Shore People. > > Wasn't that the basic idea of Norse Ragnarok . > . . the old gods being replaced by new ones?
Probably more like the war between the Aesir and the Vanir, where the "Aryan tripartite Gods" (wisdom, warrior, herder) fight against and overcome the "native fertility Gods". These episodes may be a folk memory of the battles that undoubtedly took place at times between I-E speaking invaders against Native Europeans. I don't recall off hand how widespread the motif is, but the Greeks and the North Germanics at least hace it. The Rape of the Sabine Women episode is also reminiscent. Padraic.
> > -Mark
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