Norse mythology predicts nuclear winter?

We had some strange summer days here '08, when the sun was hidden, but the light was that strong, you needed sunglasses

good words about mind

I like your logic, natural archetypes is the most closely supported hypothesis based on historical evidence. Speech probably arose from people making up tales to describe things around them, or more accurately, to complain about them!
I grew up in a warm climate so eternal snow sure sounds a lot like hell to me! The Vikings probably thought so too, since that meant no growing season. Putrified fish and old vegetables only last so long.

Why is it everyone assumes that when profits say the earth will be consumed in fire that they meant Nuclear? If this super volcano in Yellowstone does go off in our life time it too would consume the earth in fire! There would be ash from that spread over the entire globe, Thick enough to block out the sun and obscure the moon.

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upon further reflection i have decided that there isnt sufficient evidence to say that it would be caused by nuclear weapons. it mainly just talks about a multiyear winter and then the end of the world.

Black become the sun's beams
in the summers that follow,
weathers all treacherous.
Do you still seek to know? And what?

i am begining to wonder if it could just be changes with our actual sun. the sun will cease putting out energy like it once did. the mayans refered to 2012 as the death of the 5th sun and the begining of a new sun 6th sun. when they say "sun" to they mean the sun will cease to exist and a new one will take its place, or do they mean it will be the same physical sun but a new cycle will start in the suns life? i dont know but i suspect it will be a new cycle in the suns life.

Gagnrad
46. Much have I journeyed,
much experienced,
mighty ones many proved.
Whence will come the sun
in that fair heaven,
when Fenrir has this devoured?

Vafthrudnir
47. A daughter shall
Alfrödull bear,
ere Fenrir shall have swallowed her.
The maid shall ride,
when the powers die,
on her mother’s course.

this shows that they believe that the new sun will follow the same course as her "mother" after the old sun is devoured.

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Norse mythology offers imagery that reflects the BEGINNING of the universe, all well as the end! Check out this article at the Norse Mythology Blog - "Stephen Hawking: The Myths and the Critics".

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Read The Secret Doctrine, by H.P. Blavatsky. Anything written by her, really. It is understood by Theosophy, that certain truths have been misconstrued by countless religions over time, yet still contain a consistent basis of facts.

Agreed, I would add the Alice A Bailey books too. Most of our myths have grains or germs of truth in them and often they are parables to be understood on a deeper spiritual level then at face value.

it is really the journey for the soul through incarnations to enlightenment a new sun signifying higher consciousness etc.

Fears of a nuclear winter were quite prevalent during the cold war years and I'm sure there were comparisons made to any legendary Armageddon of choice. Tunguska, Chicxulub, super volcanoes any of these could produce ash that would blot out the sun but the disastrous effects would last for centuries not just a few years.

The final battle at Ragnarok is not really won by either Thor or the midgard serpent. Even though Thor kills the serpent he only takes nine paces before falling dead himself. The Norse legends of Thor started appearing near the beginning of the Renaissance and some of the ideas expressed by Renaissance artists such as Davinci seem to parallel. In 1876 Götterdämmerung, the fourth and final opera of Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen changed/extended the Ragnorok legend. Since then if ever there were terrible winters in the Norse land they occurred in Germany in the early 1940's. The end of WW2 holds the strongest similarity to Ragnorok IMHO.

The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein.

I found this picture on Wikipedia. it is from the early 1900's but i like the artists depiction of the events.
It shows the two wolves Sköll and Hati who are to swallow the sun and the moon. After the events of Ragnarok the sun and moon will appear again and the world will start anew, what i think is interesting is in this picture the artist has portrayed the wolves to look like dark shadows. it almost looks like it could be galactic dust from an interstellar explosion.

this would mirror some of what jay weidner has said:

Using empirical scientific evidence Dr. LaViollete revealed that there was a periodic explosion from the center of the galaxy depositing iridium on the surface of our planet. Showing us ice samples taken from Greenland, he revealed how these iridium deposits fall in 26,000-year layers suggesting that the pulse from the center of the galaxy is somehow linked to the precession of the equinoxes.

www.jayweidner.com...