
Talking Nordic Animism | Rune Hjarnø Rasmussen
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The Confusion of Pagan Mythologies
I don't think that pre-Christian or let's say politics and mythologies aligned very much with that like a very big part of my understanding of this comes from my studies of Afro-Brazilian primarily practices and ideas. And when you look at that you find that there are wildly contradictory ideas about for instance a question as simple as what is a God, it can be a dead pre-colonial kupu yu vu vu king. But their point is not that they shouldn't become a tradition, their point is to create ritual relation-makings in which all these rather contradictory imagery is tied in specific ritual relation- makings. The image appears it has pre-
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