Question

[Odinist_Wondering]

So being a Odinist does that mean you are one with nature and everything in it? Do you have to like it all? Still learning about the basics of Odinism is. Right now I am more interested in finding out the Basics before I get involved in learning the other things. I would also like to know about the Gods.

Thanks,
Wiccan_Wondering

[pinlighter]

"One with nature?"

Not quite. The question is how nature is understood.

The Earth - Mother Jourth - is indeed considered a benificent goddess. Midgard is cradled on her belly.

But Jourth is not all of Nature. The kindly home of man lies north of fire, south of ice, east of mist and west of a gulf of nothingness . . . . all realms where life as we know it cannot endure.

These places are the realms of the Giants - enities stronger than human, and perhaps stronger than the gods, to whom the gods and all good men are forever in conflict.



Thus, part of Nature is friends to us: but only a part, a green jewel in raging chaos.

[æinvargR]

Mother Jourth
Where did you find this name? In Swedish it's Jord so it looks like Old Norse.

[pinlighter]

Where did you find this name? In Swedish it's Jord so it looks like Old Norse.


Maybe I heard it wrong, but I thought it's just a different anglicisation of the original. th and d are quite similar sounds.

[Liffrea]

So being a Odinist does that mean you are one with nature and everything in it? Do you have to like it all? Still learning about the basics of Odinism is. Right now I am more interested in finding out the Basics before I get involved in learning the other things. I would also like to know about the Gods.

We live as a part of nature, rather than opposed to it ala Christian, and materialist cultures. We do not distinguish between an animal and a human kingdom. It is about responsibility to our environement.

Have you looked at the Eddas yet? These are by far the best sources for the gods. Try the link below, where you can download free copies of the Prose and Poetic Eddas:

http://gamall-steinn.org/text/online-text.htm

[Sigurd]

"One with Nature" maybe sounds a bit stupid. Of course we all (or almost all) have our certain connections and feelings about nature, and we would not let the materialistic world destroy it. But we're not the ones that chain themselves to trees, to clarify that as well.

And I agree with the others (if that is what they meant)- it is not about being "one with nature" but being "one with the knowledge that we have to pay adequate respect to nature."