Are Germanic gods simply a Semitic construction? A response to Mark Brahmin’s controversial article
Posted on 30th Sep 2020 by Arthur Prydain	
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There has been a great deal of controversy surrounding this article from Mark Brahmin. In short, it basically posits that the entire Norse mythology corpus is an invention of Jewish and Jewish-influenced European Christian preachers, which were built to mind-prepare the recently converted Germans to move their mentality away from the old gods.

The problem with Mark’s ideas could be summarized in short: he gives too much credit to Snorri Sturrlson’s Christianity, atheist modernism and the Greeks & Romans, while also doesn’t know how to reconstruct the Nordic gods in a positive light. I am not saying Mark is a bad guy; he might just have lacked the right tool to approach the gods, and what the tool is, I will mention in the article’s end.

This essay will address the most important points of Brahmin’s article, such as:
Only the brave goes to Heaven?

    Here we find a “Christian rock”, catered to an audience and designed to prepare the barbarian mind for a feminine Christianity.   Of course, since highly intelligent Jews were behind its design, it was several times more “badass” than the universally and deservedly mocked phenomena of “Christian Rock”.  Indeed, the latter is obviously developed by benighted Aryan Christians and lazy, low-end, unimaginative Jews picking up a paycheck.  These are holdouts in a dying brand where seven eighths of the corporate headquarter consist of empty cubicles.

    Norse myth in contrast, developed warfare, masculinity and “racism” to enthrall a Barbarian audience.  Indeed, it even required an afterlife where one continued fighting!  Instinctively, Barbarians, racially youthful and healthy, if uncultivated, disliked the idea of a tranquil afterworld.  After all, it implicitly suggested docile dominated descendants.   This is to ignore, for the moment, the unworkable premise of a heaven that “ends suffering” yet then has nothing to define its euphoria by, except perhaps unending boredom.  Indeed, those who did not die fighting for Odin suffered the ultimate indignity.  They were given to a woman, Hel, the equivalent of Proserpina, a Jewess or Semitized woman.

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I must ask the question here, why does Mark thing only the bravest, most aggressive fighters could go to the equivalency to Christianity’s Heaven? This is not correct. As far as I know, a number of different places exist in the afterlife for different kinds of deaths in Germanic religion: Folkvangr, Hel, or Helgafjell. Helgafjell, although often based on just rumors, is a place where people continue their lifestyle after death.

Speaking of Hel, I wonder, what is the problem with going there? Often, it has been characterized that it is a boring and cold place, which seems to paint a rather doleful and unappealing picture to those of us living in this post-Christian time. But what is wrong, with very ordinary people, in the past tribal times, to go to a normal, boring place? After all, existence in the previous, tribal age was harsh. You could get killed by someone who hated you, by a prey animal, by a hostile tribe or an altogether hostile foreign enemy force, like those Roman soldiers who invaded Germany at the Battle of Teutoberg. In this view, it’s very expectable that the ones who did the most distinguished and heroic thing – to die in battle, assumedly for a good cause, will be able to go to Valhalla. But no, you don’t go to a bad place, just for being a normal person, if you follow the Germanic religion.
The tree of YGGDRASIL – a Kabbalistic invention?
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    The “smoking gun” here though is, the myth itself and the symbolism it employs which is decipherable to us via Interpretatio Romana.  First, Yggdrasil with its nine worlds.  This is obviously a reference to the Cabalistic tree.   Here the earthly sephorit, or the earth upon which the tree rests, is omitted, as it is in the Hanukkah candelabra.  Though the number nine in both cases may also be a reference to the nine months of pregnancy thus “Aryanness” more generally.  Here we remember the Aryan represents the womb or breeding “stock”  vis-à-vis the Jewish seed. Here we remember Odin hung for nine days and travel nine worlds.

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If we want to talk about sacred numbers, the number nine (9) can mean a lot of different things:

I consider the resemblance between the Qabbalah tree and the nine worlds as mere coincidence. Why don’t we also connect the nine virtues of the Buddha to the Jewish faith? But what’s more, I also believe despite a common origin, Christianity and Kabbalah Judaism stand out as two different religions. There is simply no Jesus in Judaism. Why would the Christian creators of the Norse myths want to insert an item that has no relevance to their religion into Norse myth? If anything, the cross is more appropriate than the Kabbalah system.
Coincidental resemblances to Christian mythos

    Second the hanging of Odin on the tree is obviously a reference to Christ’s crucifixion.   Here Norse enthusiasts will argue that Christianity took hold precisely because of a “preceding hanging God.”   This is an acceptable thesis with the important provision that any preceding “Hanging God” arrived via “Promethean transmission”, with Jews prepping the way for Christianity.

    Third, Balder is obviously Christ as well, and therefore, Yahweh, Judah and Jewry embodied.  Ragnarok is obviously drawn from the Christian apocalypse narrative.  Here “Odinists” should pay special attention.   After Ragnarok , which represents a slaughter of pagan Gods, a destruction of idols, and Tikkun Olam writ large,  it is prophesied Balder will return and rule.  Balder is Adonis and Christ hence Jewry incarnate.   Consider how Jewish the cause of the war was as well.  Some Giantess crank refused to cry for a slain Balder who was “suffering” and “profound” in his lifetime.

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There are really many resemblances between Christ and the gods of different religions:

We can already point out how Christ also resembles the Persian Mithras and the Egyptian Osiris. All these resemblances are coincidental, and you cannot use them point out that Balder and Odin was created several hundred years after Christ.
Thor, the Semite?

    But isn’t Thor a Celestial God, a thunder God and therefore Aryan?  In Exodus we see clearly the conflation of a thundering storm god and a volcano god.  As this study explicates, heaven as a symbol, if Aryan in essence, also becomes emblematic of dominance.  In the Modern Hebrew we find the word Gaash, געש, which means “volcano” and “storm”.  In the ancient Hebrew its verb root Gaash means “to shake, quake.” Hence we imagine the “thundering hammer” of Thor as synonymous with the thundering, forging hammer of Vulcan.  In the Norse mythology Thor’s hammer becomes associated with thunder and lightning.   In the Greco-Roman myth body it also has this association.   There Vulcan is forging Jupiter’s lightning bolts.

    Certainly Jormungandr or the Midgard serpent that encircles the boundaries of the sea and whom Thor slays during Ragnarok is Leviathan appearing in the Hebrew Bible.  As described in Isaiah 27:1, the “coiling serpent” and “dragon of the sea” suffers the same fate at the hands of Yahweh during the apocalypse.

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I think we need to point out that the Thunder God fighting the serpent myth is present in several different IE religions, not just the Norse one:
Why don’t we just consider Indra, Perun and Zeus to be Semitic too?
Runnic connections to Greek characters? And Freya?
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    Even the Runic language by which the myth ostensibly arrives is suggestive of JEM. The name comes from the Germanic root run meaning “mystery” or “secret.”  It is typically understood as having arrived to the Germanic people through contact with the Roman Army during the Roman Imperial period.   Hence Odin worship is merely another form of a subversive Mercury worship delivered to the Germanic people via crypto-Jews.  In this manner it might be seen as similar to Mithras worship.   Yet whereas the latter was an internal development in Roman society, the first developed among rustic barbarians.

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I must say here, that I do not like just about everything that the Romans said about Northern gods. Odin was not Hermes / Mercury, whose rank in the Greek pantheon and character was so different from  the chieftain position in the Northern one. Likewise, Thor strikes me as more like Zeus and Taranis, than the craftsman Vulcan, though I really wonder if he was actually the war god Mars.
Are Odin and Zeus the same?(2020 updated)

Just because the Romans said this and that, doesn’t mean we should work up a parallel to the Germanic pantheon.

And what of Freya / Frigga?
Freya – Vanadis: Beautiful Desirable Goddess And Her Brisingamen Necklace In Norse Mythology | Ancient Pages

    Norse Mythology’s most important child, the Arthurian myth, becomes perfect propaganda vis-à-vis the Crusades, which listed as its primary goal “strangely” the recapture of Jerusalem.  Jews, among Barbarians whom might kill for a slight, were forced to be especially subtle and careful.  Though not in all cases.  Indeed, Frigga will even sleep with four Dwarfs to obtain the Necklace of the Brisings.  We don’t remember even Adonis’ lover Venus Pandemos stooping that low.  Otherwise, the Semitic Bride Gathering Cult is expressed through Aesir intermixing with Frost Giants and with Vanir, especially Frigga.

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I cannot understand why the Arthurian myth, which is Celtic in origin, would be considered a child of the Norse. But aside from that, regarding Freya “sleeping around”: There are several possible explanations:

    The story of Frigga sleeping with the Dwarves were indeed a fabrication by Snorri, a Christian
    The story failed to take into account the bigger context of who Odin was. Odin was a wanderer, a traveller, a man often far from home. In ancient times, men who were away in long months, even years, on raiding far distant lands or on sea voyages, could be feared to be death. It is not “good”, but understandable that the woman, fearing that her husband was dead, could be looking for other spouses (and note: I don’t believe Dwarves were a metaphor for Jews, this is simply a Tolkienish notion). In this regard, “Freya sleeping around” was very understandable.
    The story was a moral tale to tell us, obviously the gods were not always perfect, and we must strive to be wary of our moral degradation all the times
    In the Greek mythologies, there are stories of Gods seeming to commit great atrocities and immoral acts, like Zeus being not faithful to Hera, or Apollo skinning alive a Satyr. One must, however, learned that they were metaphors, after the manner of the sagely Platonic philosophers. To quote one of them, Sallustius:

“But you will ask why adulteries, thefts, paternal bonds, and other unworthy actions are celebrated in fables? Nor is this unworthy of admiration, that where there is an apparent absurdity, the soul immediately conceiving these discourses to be concealments, may understand that the truth which they contain is to be involved in profound and occult silence.”

(From “On the Gods and the World“)

I think the most possible explanation is something between the second and the last one, though any could be the case.

In fact, the Germanic people were not known to sleep around. There were penalties for adultery. The Greeks also did the same. The people who worshipped the gods must imitate them, right? If so, why didn’t the Greeks, the Romans and the Germans frequently commit rape on their own women? The myths, must have hidden meanings pointing at hidden things, and not everyone was suitable to receive the revelation of all these myths.
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As a closing note, I would suggest that people read the book Oera Linda, which talks about the Frisian folk and their god-mother, the goddess Freya. They did indeed recognize that Odin was a “mad wanderer”, and it seems that Freya seemed to not like it that much. It even suggested that the Runic characters were in fact, the ancestors of the Greek and the Phoenician alphabets, and that Apollo and Minerva (Athena) might have been Northern chieftains and wise-women who might have journey South at some point in time. It is certainly a wildly conspiratiorial book, but seriously, no more so than the Iliad. Many will say this book is false and a total forgery. I’d leave it to the readers to assess the information presented in this book for themselves.
Side note: how to know the gods in their true forms

The way I do this, is not by studying books, which could have been altered after hundreds of years, but by contemplation / meditating and using reason, like what the first Greek philosophers must have done.

I have felt the energy of Odin / Wotan during meditation. It was nothing “Semitic” – chaotic, subversive and degrading. It’s an uplifting energy that nevertheless exhorts me to become braver and more adventurous.

I have felt the energy of Freya too, during meditation. There was nothing that encouraged me to become promiscuous. All she does, however, is to teach me lessons about love – how to love others and to love ourselves, which is indeed true to her nature of the Goddess of Love.

I have felt the energy of Zeus, and even seen his lightning bolt. It also encouraged me to become more courageous. In this way, Zeus was more like Odin to me, than Mercury / Hermes to Odin.

How do I know all the gods are true, and not just mere forces of nature, or figments of imagination? Meditation.

Do meditation in combination with prayer, and you will see how the gods truly are – not angry, fickle beings; but full of patience and understanding for us humans.
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Not going back, to a past that never existed. And not going forward, to the end of history. But going forward, to a rebirth. For at the end of an age and the start of another one, a rebirth of human life must take place. I am a Renaissantist, I take Archeofuturism to further and higher ends.