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DECODING THE DELUGE AND FINDING THE PATH FOR CIVILIZATION Volume II Of Three Volumes by David Huttner Version 25.4; Release date: March 7, 2020 Cover by A. Watson, Chen W. and D. Huttner Copyright 2020, By David Robert Huttner I hereby donate this digital version of this book to the public domain. You may copy and distribute it, provided you don’t do so for profit or make a version using other media (e.g. a printed or cinematic version). For anyone other than me to sell this book at a profit is to commit the tort of wrongful enrichment, to violate my rights and the rights of whomever it is sold to. I also welcome translations of the work into other languages and will authorize the translations of translators who are competent and willing to donate digital versions. Please email your feedback to me, David Huttner, at [email protected]. Other Works of David Huttner, soon to be Available Autographed and in Hardcopy at http://www,DavidHuttnerBooks.com , Include: Decoding the Deluge and finding the path for civilization, vols 1&3 Irish Mythology passageway to prehistory Stage II of the Nonviolent Rainbow Revolution Making the Subjective and Objective Worlds One Just Say No to Latent Homosexual Crusades Social Harmony as Measured by Music (a lecture) The First Christmas (a short play) The Spy I Loved secrets to the rise of the Peoples Republic of China Selected Works of David Huttner Volumes 1 and 2 Heaven Sent Converting the World to English TABLE OF CONTENTS FOR THIS VOLUME 2 21. SCANDINAVIAN (GERMANIC) MYTHOLOGY 3 22. NEW GUINEA TEES 29 23. POTLATCHES OF THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST AND OTHER NORTH AMERICANNOTES 38 24. DONNELLY TO THE RESCUE 76 25. WITHIN THE BROAD OUTLINE OF GREEK MYTHOLOGY 88 26. LULLABY OF LLAMALAND 122 27. PAGAN EUROPE GOES CHRISTIAN 156 28. THE CORN SPIRITS 173 29. THE FIRE FESTIVALS 187 30. THE BIG PICTURE 211 31. CELTIC MYTHOLOGY: EVERYTHING YOU EVER WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT THE DELUGE 225 32. AN IRISH MYTH-TALE 261 33. HALLELUIAH FOR THE HINDUS 280 34. OAK TREES, SNAKES, SUN GODS AND OTHER SACRED SYMBOLS 303 35. MÉXICO SANGRIENTO 313 2 CHAPTER 21: SCANDINAVIAN (GERMANIC) MYTHOLOGY I once heard a lady describe the pleasure it gave her to think that she “could always cuddle up to God.” --William James. Detecting Homo erectus and the veterans of the Species War within Scandinavia mythology is not even a challenge. They’re all one finds! Scandinavian mythology is so open and transparent that, frankly, I am astonished that no one cracked it before I did. Apparently, human psychological resistance knows no bounds. For able specialists to introduce us to this literature I have Mrs. H.R. Ellis Davidson and Mr. Kevin Crossley-Holland. They are two of the scholars who have done the very difficult work of synthesizing Germanic mythology. They and countless others (especially translators and archaeologists) have made what I am doing possible and easy. In this chapter, we shall base our interpretations chiefly on Davidson’s Scandinavian Mythology and Crossley-Holland’s The Norse Myths . For Germanic mythology from A to Z, to read all of it, you can browse to http://www.germanicmythology.com/index.html. Before digging into it and to get a better understanding of Scandinavian mythology, let’s obtain a basic understanding of the Norwegians, Danes and Swedes who last lived and breathed it. The majority consisted of small free-holders who lived by the sweat of their own brows, farming as need be, hunting and fishing when possible. The god the freemen propitiated and identified with was Thor. Thor was the god of thunder and lightning, the equivalent of Donar, Thunar and Thunor among other Germanic peoples, the Hindu Indra, the Greek Zeus and the Roman Jupiter. Thor controlled the rain and made his presence known in the roll of thunder and the flash of lightning. He was a red-bearded giant whose minni (toast) was drunk to the prosperity of the cornfields. (Grimm: 177) He was immensely strong, had an enormous appetite and increased his strength by wearing a special belt of might. ( Cf. Davidson: 57.) He wore great gloves for grasping and shattering rocks. He rode across the sky in a wagon pulled by he-goats. Scandinavia still has mountains and rocks bearing his name. Mr. Jacob Grimm made an important observation about Thor. Grim devoted his life to the collection and study of myths and folklore. A consummate linguist, he tried to do what we’re doing now, to reconstruct the pagan religion of our Indo-European ancestors. Christians of the fifth 3 through the eighth centuries made his task very difficult. Inspired by their first two commandments, they did to Europe what Muslims and Jews did to the Mid-East.1 With fire and sword, they violated every manner of free expression to totally extinguish every manifestation of our earlier religious heritage. By the eighth century, every physical trace of paganism had disappeared from Central Europe. If any German tried to record the ancient creed for posterity, his efforts were in vain. The only surviving knowledgeable and contemporary accounts of Central European, Teutonic religion are those of Tactitus Germanicus (first century A.D.). In an effort to reconstruct the primitive creed of his ancestors, Grimm became fluent in most of the Indo-European languages. His discoveries of European language, folklore and folk custom and their implications convinced him that the religion of all the Germanic (Teutonic) peoples was virtually identical. Fortunately, one of the branches of that religion survived long enough to be recorded in Iceland in the tenth through the thirteenth centuries. 2 Iceland's remoteness and the ferocity and tenacity of the Norse ruling class and their vassals (the Vikings) saved Scandinavian mythology -- and Teutonic mythology per se -- from extinction at the hands of Christian proselytes. Using the various explicit and implicit sources of information, Grimm, a good detective, inferred something about Thor’s relationship with the elves (dwarfs , albe , alpen or alps ). (This is an important detail for which you would otherwise have had to accept the opinion of an obscure New York City taxi-driver.) From a Latin text, Grimm inferred that the elf-spirits were in Thor's employ or under his command (Grimm: 180). This conclusion is consistent with everything else that we know about the elves. The elves were famous for making tools. They made for Thor his famous hammer, Mjollnir , which kills giants and returns to Thor's hand after being 1 The first three Judeo-Christian-Muslim commandments are: “Thou shalt have no other gods before me”; “Thou shalt not make any graven image” and “Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain.” 2 The six principal sources of Scandinavian mythology that Mr. Crossley-Holland synthesized are: 1) the Elder Eddas (poems); an anthology of different poets of different times and places; 2) the Scaldic Poems; 3) the Prose Edda of Snorri Sturluson, an outstanding historian, statesman and man of letters; 4) the first nine books of the Gesta Danorum by the 13th century Dane Saxo or Grammaticus; 5) over 700 Icelandic sagas written by known and unknown, 13th century Icelanders and 6) the accounts of a few historical observers, especially Tactitus. 4 thrown. We shall confirm below what the alert reader should already anticipate about this hammer. For now, suffice it to say that Thor (Thunor, Thunar or Donar and like Indra, Zeus or Jupiter, etc. ) was a symbol for or mythological commander of the Homo sapien army of the Species War. The downtrodden of Scandinavia (and Europe) were the serfs. Theirs was a life of squalor and misery. In the “Song of Rig,” Heimdall , the god who guards the entrance to Asgard , the kingdom of the gods, mythically creates Norse society. Heimdall accomplishes this, begets the progeny that form the principal three social classes, by playing the cuckold to three couples that exemplify these classes. The enserfed couple lived in a “turfed hut… [T]he shack was so rickety that it looked as if it might collapse if the eagle-giant Hraesvelg gave one flap of his wings.” Stooping to get under the lintel, “It took Heimdall a moment to adjust to the rank, smoky gloom; his eyes smarted and he retched” from the effects of the usual array of barnyard animals found within the hut. (See Crossley-Holland: 18.) Children of the serfs ( thralls ) who did not succumb to the squalor at an early age were, for the most part, doomed to continue in it. Though it’s doubtful that many Norsemen were conscious of it, the heavenly reflection of the serf, the god with whom they identified and with whom they were encouraged to identify was Loki . Loki was not a fighter. His weapon was guile. He was the trickster and the author of most of the mischief among the gods. In tale after tale he gets gods into trouble with giants and then resorts to some ignoble trick that helps to kill the giant and extricate himself and his divine colleagues. Like the Near Eastern Jinn, whom we’ll meet later, Loki had the ability to change himself into other animals. He often changed himself into a fly to pass through keyholes and make himself effectively invisible. Like the trickster in every mythology, he symbolized all that is ignoble and deceitful in man. He represented the fleet-footed archer of the Species War who could strike Homo erectus without being seen and disappear without being caught. Like the serf's ox, Loki bore a terrible burden, Species War guilt.