Hatterleigh wrote:The only truly viable pagans are those that take the overarching ideas of giant groups of religions, for the norse and greeks, the overarching themes in Indo-European religions like reincarnation, certain types of gods, veneration of ancestors, veneration of war, horse and cow holy stuff, ancestral twins, that sort of stuff. Norse Paganism, Greek Paganism, are just evolutions of the same religion both characterized by isolation and influence from pre-IE groups living in the area or other peoples who interacted with them. The role pantheons of pagan peoples plays is for an origin narrative.
Fair enough. That makes a lot more sense now and I see where you are coming from.
However paganism and polytheism is a broad field and extends beyond the indo-european paganic traditions you were referencing too.
North German Realm wrote:True as that may be, it's irrelevant to what you stated in your first post. "Folkish Paganism" was literally something a bunch of racist antisemites came up with in late 19th century to oppose muh Jewish Christianity and has no basis in actual, recorded history.
Thats the problem that comes with borrowing memes from bad sauce.