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[deleted] t1_ja4j9d4 wrote

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get_rhythm t1_ja4l4de wrote

I think most cultures with pantheons had a thunder God, right? Pretty much any type of weather phenomenon usually had an associated God.

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AlpineCorbett t1_ja4y7t1 wrote

When you don't understand electromagnetic forces but you do know the sky lights up and screams at you sometimes, well that's a good basis for a deity. Most ancient cultures have one.

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IAmtheHullabaloo t1_ja506w2 wrote

And there is the Angry Eye Ball in the sky. You can't even look at it.

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AlpineCorbett t1_ja51959 wrote

Extremely eldritch.

Gives life, blinds you by looking at it, tears your skin apart on a molecular level, unaware of our existence....

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Muggaraffin t1_ja5572g wrote

It is weird to think what people must have made of the sun back then, or even just a few centuries back. Before they even understood the concept of space, and instead just knew of the 'above us'. And like you said, angry eye ball. Just some large bright white hole in the sky that hurts to look at. Imagining a kind of Sauron figure makes total sense :/

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Gloomy_Possession-69 t1_ja4u7dv wrote

You've got your timelines quite mixed!

The first evidence of the Sumerian religion is about 6500 years old. The first evidence of the old Norse religion is about 2500 years old. However...

From what I understand, you can trace the origins of Thor to the Proto-Indo-European (PIE) mythology, to the hammer-wielding lightning and thunder god Perkwunos, which also is about 6500 years old.

Despite this, it is currently widely believed that Sumeria and PIE did not mix mythologies, so the connection between their thunder gods is not there (at least according to our current understanding).

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Scalpaldr t1_ja4s3q8 wrote

Well seeing as the Sumerians are about six or seven THOUSAND years older than the Norse I think we can presume their thunder god doesn't trace back to Thor.

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Muggaraffin t1_ja55ili wrote

Honestly, as cool as Nordic mythology is, lately I've found Sumerian and Mesopotamian mythology far more interesting (or equally as interesting at least). I really recommend reading up on it, it's good fun

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foul_dwimmerlaik t1_ja52rtd wrote

It's "Sumer," not "Sumeria." And the S is pronounced as an "Sh."

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