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Chapter 6
The Sky
By far the most difficult area of the northern European worldview to address is
the nature of the Gods themselves. For centuries scholars raised and educated in a
Christian world have been trying to make some kind of sense out of mythologies or
worldviews which were considered normal by ancient Heathens but are completely
alien to modern man and which have long since disappeared leaving only small but
tantalizing traces of what were probably complex systems of thought. Because a
person can only define something using terms, analogies, and comparisons that are
borne out his own cultural background, understandable during his own time, each
interpretation reflects his own culture. Making the leap in thinking, i.e. completely
switching worldviews, is for all practical purposes impossible. The old fishing, hunting
and agricultural communities are gone, and if one such community has continued
to exist, it is so completely changed through modern technology like electricity, improved
transportation, and faster, more efficient communication that it does not
even remotely resemble itself from a hundred years ago, never mind a thousand.
During the mid- to late-1800’s, when the theory of evolution was fairly new, scholars
were automatically lead to think in terms of linear development from “primitive
to sophisticated,” and, consequently, interpretations of northern mythology such