If Thor has infinite goat meat, what are you supposed to sacrifice to him? - /x/ (#40702854) [Archived: 781 hours ago]

Anonymous
7/11/2025, 8:56:59 PM No.40702854
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Clearly he doesn't need goats meat.
>The Prose Edda relates that when Thor cooks the goats, their flesh provides sustenance for the god, and, after Thor resurrects them with his hammer, Mjölnir, they are brought back to life the next day. According to the same source, Thor once stayed a night at the home of peasant farmers and shared with them his goat meal, yet one of their children, Þjálfi, broke one of the bones to suck out the marrow, resulting in the lameness of one of the goats upon resurrection. As a result, Thor maintains Þjálfi and his sister Röskva as his servants. Scholars have linked the ever-replenishing goats to the nightly-consumed beast Sæhrímnir in Norse mythology and Scandinavian folk beliefs involving herring bones and witchcraft.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanngrisnir_and_Tanngnj%C3%B3str
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Anonymous
7/11/2025, 9:18:31 PM No.40702951
>>40702854 (OP)

What is a neopagan going to sacrifice in his mom's apartment, a chicken tendie?
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Anonymous
7/11/2025, 9:39:18 PM No.40703053
>>40702951
The gods are immortal, and purposely let the religions they create about themselves be lost to time, in order to test what their followers do in such times. The entirety of Norse mythology is the gods themselves searching for their own fates, which we, the readers, know more about than they do, at any given point, in the story, given that we can read all the stories, now, using the internet, and collections from across hundreds of years and different countries, which ancient peasants didn't have access to. So we'd know more than the peasant pagans did, and those pagans would have been neopagans of the pagans before them. And the gods themselves would be permanent neopagams, as they'd always be creating their own religion as they went.
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Anonymous
7/11/2025, 9:47:57 PM No.40703096
>>40703053

Who is the Tendie god?
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Anonymous
7/11/2025, 9:50:02 PM No.40703105
>>40703096
Fenrir and Garmr are the chicken finger gods, as they each eat one of Tyr's hands. I have sacrificed chicken wings to them before.
Anonymous
7/11/2025, 9:53:43 PM No.40703124
>>40702854 (OP)
>The Prose Edda
a christian wrote it 400 years after the Norse religion died out and they didn't write it down

basically advanced fanfiction by someone with a bone to pick with paganism
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Anonymous
7/11/2025, 9:59:13 PM No.40703159
>>40703124
I have two questions for you.
At the time, was it legal for him not to be publicly Christian?
Did he have free will, and choose to use his free will to write down Norse stories?
Anonymous
7/11/2025, 9:59:27 PM No.40703162
Why are mythologies so full of torture? ;_;
I guess it tends to be a consequence of deathlessness or resurrection.
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Anonymous
7/11/2025, 10:26:58 PM No.40703336
>>40703162
Who's getting tortured in this myth?