I feel like Heathenism is lacking something.

[Rae'ya]

Re: I feel like Heathenism is lacking something.

I'm cringing. I'll acknowledge some of the similarities between Odin's behavior and Mercury's skillset but unless by "a little less supreme sky god", you mean entirely not leader of the Aesir, this still leads to the highly entertaining position that a someone's (depends on who one wants to credit with a more accurate vision) head of pantheon is play-acting as a lesser Power when interacting with the other culture and....

yeah, my head hurts now.

also Thor = Jupiter?

really............................................ ................

Yep and yep.

Plus Tyr is equated with Mars, but very few people actually think about that one too much because there's so little mythology surrounding Tyr that we see 'warrior' and leave it at that. Then we have Frigg and Venus... which is then used as justification to say that Frigg and Freyja were obviously just the same goddess all along. It's all just one big mess of... no.

[MaskedOne]

Re: I feel like Heathenism is lacking something.

Plus Tyr is equated with Mars

My initial response this was going to be a touch overly dramatic but from what I hear, Mars was treated significantly better by Roman writers than the treatment that Greeks gave Ares so I'm just not gonna comment.

[AnMa]

Re: I feel like Heathenism is lacking something.

Personally I don't find equating gods with each other as a respectful or appealing way of looking at other religions. To me that smacks of ego-centric 'I'm right and the rest of you can only be right if yours looks like mine'. It's like... oh, I can respect you because you're just like my aunt Jane... you are both blonde and dentists and like the colour orange... you're pretty much the same person! That's not respectful to the entity. But then, I am a hard polytheist so I do see them as actual distinct entities. I understand that not everyone thinks that way.

Not equating - but interpreting. I think the images we have in our myths and minds about the Gods are, well, images. And I explicitly avoid the horrible word "only" here. Those images are not "only" images but very important, powerful and imho necessary to remotely understand what we are talking about. But they do not exactly and empirically describe the Gods, they represent what is behind those images. And that is what I meant with "pretty much the same". The images of Norns and Parcae are pretty much the same. They are so similar that it is evident that they have a common origin or that there was a cultural interchange.
I do not think that the concept of a "true god" existed until this sect from the Middle East showed up. The Romans and the Greek were aware of the contradictions within their own mythology (and I do not know any mythology which does not have intrinsic contradicitons). E.g. there are at least three different genealogies of Jupiter, they cannot all be "true" at the same time. Those different "confessions" did not yield to different denominations, they still honoured the same God and followed the same religion.
We unfortunately do not know what philosophy our Northern ancestors had behind their religion, because they have never written it down. But from the similarities in the structure of the myths and the pantheons and the cultural interchange regarding weekday names etc. I suspect the philosophy was not that fundamently different either. But that is just speculation, perhaps only wishful thinking.
Anyway, my genome says I am 42% Northern-European, 38% Mediterranean, 18% Southwest Asian and 2% Neanderthal (which is pretty average for an European). The Northern and Southern Gods belong to my cultural ancestry, there is no need to squeeze them into one imagery but it is neither required to separate them in an absolute manner. For example, wisdom is still wisdom - whether we find it in Odin or Apollon.

[meinfretr]

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I was pretty much called a false believer and ridiculed (reminded me of being in a church?) by Heathens for bringing up that I use Cannabis and Shrooms in my worship occasionally

Is one not supposed to do that?

Realistically, anyone telling you how you should practice your faith seems quite....monotheistic. Limited. I would not be overly concerned with their opinions.