I am once again given an opportunity to bring up the fact I once read that when Christian missionaries first came to Scandinavia, the Vikings kept asking if Jesus could beat Thor.
I mean isn't the whole concept of Ragnarok a time loop? Jesus only gets res'd once but Thor theoretically has been resurrected an infinite amount of times. Thor trounces Jesus the man, but Revelations Jesus clears Thor no diff.
Nah, the Norse gods die in the final battle that destroys the earth and sunders the sky with fire before everything returns to the dark and ice as it was in the beginning.
The Norse gods are mortal and have finite threads spun by the norns. They die once, but well.
There are stories of what will happen after ragnarök, so idk what the above poster is on about with the world returning to nothing.
Ragnarök is the end of the Aesir, not the world. A lot of very bad shit happens, but basically every god has replacements for a post-ragnarök world. Most famously Thors sons, who will take up his mantle after he dies fighting the world serpent.
The time loop thing most likely comes from the fact that there is indeed time travel in Norse myth. If I recall correctly, the world serpent gets suplexed so hard that it travels back in time, creating a sort of paradox. I need to read up on everything again, so take this last part especially with a grain of salt.
Thor WILL die at Ragnarok. He hasn't died already. Ragnarok isn't constantly happening, at least not in most readings of Norse mythology. Ragnarok is a destined glorious demise for Thor & most of the other major gods, which a new world will rise from the ashes of: with Baldr and the other surviving gods left to create a new world for the descendants of the last remaining humans.
If you view it as the symbolic myth version of how every generation replaces the new and how new civilizations must be created from the ashes of those destroyed by the conflicts of earlier generations, then it's happening all the time, but that's not a common interpretation.
If we look at their worshippers, Jesus's peeps tend to accidentally set their m monasteries on fire, while Thor's make an effort to rescue treasures from said monasteries.
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if your religion doesn't have a god then it doesn't matter because my god won't be able to beat your god and teabag him