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I don't mean to drag this point out, but I was reading Dougherty's "History of the Norse People" again and I'd like to correct the earlier post. Ragnarok IS described in past tense. For example ... "Odin is said to have whispered to Baldr before the pyre was lit ..." That couldn't be anything...

First, thanks for your thoughts on this. My original goal was to find out what sort of reaction my speculation would receive from more seasoned students of Norse myths. I never doubted that other cultures had a version of universal destruction similar to the Norse version. My question was...

Ummmm ... Egyptians and Mayans are kinda "apples and kumquats" in relation to the Norse Ragnarok. While the Egyptians had a lot of their gods killing each other off (and doing really disgusting things at the same time), they all didn't die off. The ones that got worshipped were presumed to still...

As I understand it, nearly all of the Norse gods (and everything else) died in Ragnarok, and the world essentially was reborn. This leads to a fairly obvious problem. If your average Viking raider actually believed that, then there were no more gods as far as he was concerned. So, how (for...