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  • How Did You Find TamrielVault? I am a tru­e Nord.
  • Which Elder Scrolls Games Have You Played? Morrowind, Oblivion, Skyrim, ESO
  • Platform PC, Xbox 360
  • Which Elder Scrolls Spin-offs Have You Played? None
  • Which Fallout Games Have You Played? Fallout 3, Fallout New Vegas, Fallout 4
  • adds-many-comments Damn, it's been a long time since I've posted something on here. Should probably start using the site again before my account gets deleted due to inactivity or something.
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  • May 23, 2015 3:06 PM EDT
    in the topic Your Personal Pantheon? in the forum Elder Scrolls
    I am talking about the original faith that was created on the roots of animism back to the Stone Age and before. As years passed and human societies grew, man naturally became greedy. So, in the late pre-christian age most of the religions in the world were all about "the Gods want this and you must do it or you will be punished" to control the masses, much like christianity. So, yes, Epicurus was right even in his age. Because in his age people had already taken to see their "gods" as physical deities and not as they were originally. And seriously, Epicurus lived on ATHENS. While Athens was the home to almost all known hellenic philosophers, she literally was also the capital of greed and corruption. She still hasn't changed much. I live in the damn country. I know.
  • May 23, 2015 2:54 PM EDT
    in the topic Your Personal Pantheon? in the forum Elder Scrolls
    True, but there is not an afterlife of punishment in Asatru. Hel is the place where "those who died by old age or sickness" go and it's a place of silence for the dead to rest, pretty similar to the greek otherworld in a way. But again, all these myths are just sympols. For example, take Valhalla. The hall of the valiant dead. The hall's walls are known to be made of spears, the roof of shields etc. while a goat in the rooftop produces mead non-stop for the warriors to drink. Obviously, that sounds ridiculous. But taking a look at the ancients' traditions, we see that the dead warriors were buried with their weapons; hence their otherworld is made of these weapons. Also, it is commonly believed in pretty much all religions that once you die, you will learn all the truth about religion and the universe, you will have unimaginable knowledge to the common alive man. The mead-producing goat is a sympol for that knowledge. The mead in many parts of the myths is a sympol for knowledge (the mead of wisdom found by Odin under the World Tree for example). So, according to the myths, the dead will gain huge amounts of wisdom and "no matter how much they drink, there will always be more to be drunk". But really, the ancients did not believe in an otherworld where the dead stayed. They believed in reincarnation. They used to name their youngest children after other dead members of the family, so that the spirits of those dead ancestors could be housed within them. This tradition has survived till now too, as in most nations of the western world (and of the eastern if I am not mistaken), the young children are named after their grandfathers/grandmothers. 
  • May 23, 2015 2:36 PM EDT
    in the topic Your Personal Pantheon? in the forum Elder Scrolls
    Holy crap I just wrote a huge comment and it didn't show up. Let me rewrite that.
  • May 23, 2015 8:15 AM EDT
    in the topic Your Personal Pantheon? in the forum Elder Scrolls
    As I said, they are not gods. They are aspects/personifications of the forces of nature. We use the term "god" but not with the terminology christianity gave it. The word "god" had been used before christianity, you know, and it had nothing to do with the meaning christianity gave it after it took over Europe. That's one of the reasons we write the word with a small "g" instead of the christian capitalized one. But really, we mostly avoid using the word at all. We prefer things like "deities" or the Æsir/Vanir etc.  So, when christians say things like "your heathen gods are false! Ours is the only true God!" they have some truth in them; because in their perception of what "god" means, our gods are truly false. They are not allmighty, allpowerful, allwise, allseeing and all that crazy stuff. What is allmighty, allpowerful, allwise, allseeing etc. is nature herself, which is the unity of all those forces/"gods" you can find in the universe. And that's what we worship. Nature. And by worship, I don't mean falling down on our knees kissing the floor and saying things like "oh, save me high ones and please don't send me to hell!". We worship our gods by just enjoying life, trying to not harm the enviroment around us as we go. And there is not a thing such as hell or heaven either. 
  • May 22, 2015 8:07 PM EDT
    in the topic Your Personal Pantheon? in the forum Elder Scrolls
    I worship the ancient nordic gods of war, love and wisdom. The original non-imperial Akatosh, Shor, Kyne, Tsun, Ysmir (Talos) and all the others. 
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