Are Pagan myths corrupted?

[The Phantom Stranger]

No offence to the Gods but have the Pagan myths about creation and stuff corrupted?
Because for example some of it doesn't make sense like Cronus mistaking a rock for his child in Greek mythology and things being born from the sweat of a Giant in Norse mythology.

Also if Zeus is Thor, how come there's no mention of his hammer Mjolnir in Greek mythology?

 

[High Priest Zevios Metathronos]

No. All of these concepts overlap.

Thor's hammer is the power of thunder, as it's the case with the power of Thunder of Zeus and Varja, the power the Gods wield in the East. These are concepts to describe a core energy, and sometimes symbols change according to what had meaning for a specific civilization. That's what also makes mythology unique.

The point is to describe the events and the energies. That's how myths should be approached. They also relate cosmological situations in a simplified way. Mythology has to do with what children would be instructed, but in it, there is coded spiritual knowledge.

Myths are spiritual allegory, they are not "literal" in the low sense. The "Sweat of Giants" has to do with what comes out of universal forces, which were probably called "Giants". Not about an actual sweating giant or whatever.

 

[The Phantom Stranger]

Ok but I've read here that Zeus is Satan's half brother.
But I thought Thor(Zeus) was Odin's(Satan's) son?

 

[Desdemona_666]

They are not corrupted, we don’t understand them the way they are meant to be understood.

 

[Stormblood]

Ok but I've read here that Zeus is Satan's half brother.
But I thought Thor(Zeus) was Odin's(Satan's) son?

Myth is not to be taken literally. It is not the Bible. Relationship between the Gods, just like the events happening, are spiritual allegories. There is deep meaning in Thor being Odin's son.

 

[The Phantom Stranger]

So umm what exactly who exactly was Satan in Greek mythology? What was his name? It's Odin in Norse mythology, Vishnu/Shiva in Hindu and what about Greek?

 

[NG Tyler Tekton]

So umm what exactly who exactly was Satan in Greek mythology? What was his name? It's Odin in Norse mythology, Vishnu/Shiva in Hindu and what about Greek?

Poseidon

 

[SleepingWolf]

No. All of these concepts overlap.

Thor's hammer is the power of thunder, as it's the case with the power of Thunder of Zeus and Varja, the power the Gods wield in the East. These are concepts to describe a core energy, and sometimes symbols change according to what had meaning for a specific civilization. That's what also makes mythology unique.

The point is to describe the events and the energies. That's how myths should be approached. They also relate cosmological situations in a simplified way. Mythology has to do with what children would be instructed, but in it, there is coded spiritual knowledge.

Myths are spiritual allegory, they are not "literal" in the low sense. The "Sweat of Giants" has to do with what comes out of universal forces, which were probably called "Giants". Not about an actual sweating giant or whatever.

How were they not corrupted is the real question? They were in the hands of xian controlled roman empire for centuries, and the middle ages. We know they'd later add in obvious edits in Snorri's version of the Norse myths, the Poetic Edda, and the celtic myths seem to not be the originals either anymore, how did the Greco-Roman myths escape this fate?

As well, I always assumed the stories about Zeus and Poseidon being "rapists" to be a case of obvious corruption. It didn't make sense to me, and figured the meaning of the word had been altered or the text altogether altered to slander the Gods.

Is this not a form of corruption? Even ignoring the obvious corruption done by later authors more overtly slandering the Gods with myths that paint them as straight up negative or petty forces, this one always bugged me for being blatantly subversion.

 

[SleepingWolf]

No. All of these concepts overlap.

Thor's hammer is the power of thunder, as it's the case with the power of Thunder of Zeus and Varja, the power the Gods wield in the East. These are concepts to describe a core energy, and sometimes symbols change according to what had meaning for a specific civilization. That's what also makes mythology unique.

The point is to describe the events and the energies. That's how myths should be approached. They also relate cosmological situations in a simplified way. Mythology has to do with what children would be instructed, but in it, there is coded spiritual knowledge.

Myths are spiritual allegory, they are not "literal" in the low sense. The "Sweat of Giants" has to do with what comes out of universal forces, which were probably called "Giants". Not about an actual sweating giant or whatever.

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I had known the greek word for "rape" had meant "capture" not too different from seize, but I failed to notice the symbology of the male and female uniting, thank you.

My fear was knowing they corrupted that word for slandering the Gods, I was paranoid about what other changes or word subversions they did, but I'm sure a keen Satanic eye can spot these out if we know what we're looking for.