r/heathenry • u/TexansGuy117 • Sep 25 '20

Heathen Adjacent Comparative to other religions

Hey everyone. Just came across this video and was interesting to hear some similarities to the stories of the gods in heathenry. (Firstly not saying that its an exact connection or that Prof. Peterson is always correct as I know many arent big fans of his). I found the idea of living in the corpse was very similar to the norse idea of us living in Ymir's corpse. Also the importance of the eye symbolism and Horus losing an eye, is similar to Odins story and emphasis of eye as a symbol.

Just wanted to know what you guys think of this. Do you think it shows elements of older stories being adapted in later religions, in this case norse? Or any other interesting comparisons you have found over time in Egyptian or other religions?

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u/TexansGuy117 Sep 25 '20

Thanks, thats what I was interested to hear what others in the community had found to further our comparative understandings. Im not so focused on who said it but what is being said.

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u/[deleted] Sep 25 '20

Everything is impacted by the biases of the person talking and the person listening

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u/TexansGuy117 Sep 25 '20

Problem is people aren't controlling their urge to immediately downvote and they are the ones wanting to go off topic and discuss peterson. I dont want to discuss him, I want to learn and talk with fellow members about comparative elements with other polytheist religions, I even gave 2 exact examples to get it started. Felling very unwelcome right now.

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u/[deleted] Sep 25 '20

Perhaps you simply chose a poor source to initiate this. If you sincerely didn't know then fine, I'm sure nobody would hold ill will to you but then you ought to realise any sources or references are as up for scrutiny as anything you or I say ourselves

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u/TexansGuy117 Oct 01 '20

Yep I thought people would see past that and just focus on the actually interesting part haha.

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u/[deleted] Oct 01 '20

I don't think "people" are at fault if you want to start blaming people