Posted: Mar 24, 2010 7:36 pm
I wonder if his popularity is due to the Marvel comics?
As a god he is pretty cool, and from what I have read about him he was popular with the peasants as a god to wroship. Odin was a bit too serious and his worship demanded human sacrifice.
Looking over mythology the gods of the past are easier to related to than the monotheistic ones today. Allah and Yahweh are too distant and very demanding and their followers are too damn serious and intolerant. Ones like Thor, Apollo, Isis, Horus, Athena, et al seem more, well, human. If they existed they'd be the ones who would like to invite to a party. Who would want Allah at a party? Just sit there and tell you not to do this and that, being disapproving of anything you did, chuck people out he didn't like eventually get chucked out by you at which point he would call you an infidel and get his mates to blow your party up. Miserable git.
As a god he is pretty cool, and from what I have read about him he was popular with the peasants as a god to wroship. Odin was a bit too serious and his worship demanded human sacrifice.
Looking over mythology the gods of the past are easier to related to than the monotheistic ones today. Allah and Yahweh are too distant and very demanding and their followers are too damn serious and intolerant. Ones like Thor, Apollo, Isis, Horus, Athena, et al seem more, well, human. If they existed they'd be the ones who would like to invite to a party. Who would want Allah at a party? Just sit there and tell you not to do this and that, being disapproving of anything you did, chuck people out he didn't like eventually get chucked out by you at which point he would call you an infidel and get his mates to blow your party up. Miserable git.