Indeed, and its most certainly a very fascinating concept.
It definitely gives food for thought. I suppose when working with Norse mythology, which has so many gaps, lost to the tides of history, it comes down to us to see what truths the myths are trying to depict. For this reason i find...
It is true that Snorri never mentioned the re-incarnation of souls, or anything to do with a soul mate. But that does not mean it did not exist. For instance the Galgeal, and many Norse, Danes and even Germans (the latter having unique religions, but on occasion shared the Norse faith) which...
Science is, as i understand it, a study of the physical word. Now, neopaganism is a broad and vague term, which does not suggest any obvious structure - there are many new pagan religions. But if a religion sees the universe as a divine creation, then is science not a study of the divine? Just...
Occamsraizor,
The Norse shared a very common theme with other ancient Indo-European religions; they believed that when we die, we tend to stay with a certain group of other souls which we are very close to, and when we are reborn (as the Norse religions often adhered to the concept of...