The Chad Pastoralist: History

I think it is safe to say that I am a fan of Aristotle and a lot of the classics.

Afterlife Judgement in Ancient Egypt and Germanic Europe. It is commonly believed that any notion of being judged for your actions and any kind of judgement and punishment in the afterlife comes from Abrahamic religions (I.e., Christianity, Islam, and Judaism). However, this is false, as both indigenous Northern European - specifically Germanic - and Egyptian Pagan religions prior to the arrival of Abrahamic ideologies had a clear moral framework with notions of being judged based on your actions and subsequently punished or rewarded in life and in death. Here, I provide an exploration of the pre-Christian Egyptian and Germanic Pagan worldview on judgement, punishment, and reward in the afterlife. Looking at historical sources such as the Egyptian Book of the Dead with its funerary texts, and various Old Norse poems such as Sólarljóð, Fáfnismál, Gylfaginning and Vǫluspá, we gain a greater understanding of our culture and worldview. You can read the in-depth exploration of moral objectivity in Germanic Paganism from a theological standpoint and the core social attitudes that were held in pre-Christian Germanic societies in my full post, here, where I provide an exploration and explanation of pre-Christian morality in ancient Europe regarding adulterers, liars and oath-Breakers in Nástrǫnd, fate in Fáfnismál and the judgement of the Gods in Gylfaginning, morality in Tacitus' Germania, and man and woman in Vǫluspá. For further reading, visit my Substack article Judgement and Punishment in Norse Mythology. Follow me on Instagram Subscribe to me on Substack