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@ Trinity
2025-05-24 07:11:23
The image of the “wolf in sheep’s clothing” (Matthew 7:15, Vulgate 1455) reads not just as a moral warning, but as a political statement in the context of Christian expansion.
As Christianity's primary enemy was in the north, it inverted local symbols into oppositional types: Thor’s hammer became Christ’s nails; Odin’s wolves gave way to the shepherd’s sheep. Pagan memory was not erased, but rewritten. The surviving traditions, carried mainly by women within the domestic sphere, were branded satanic, not as a misunderstanding, but as a precise theological judgment. Satan (Hebrew śāṭān, “adversary”) named all resistance to divine order, and matrilineal wisdom, transmitted through story, ritual, and practice, was cast in that role.
The witch trials were not random panics, but editorial purges, efforts to erase a rival symbolic order. Even the Eddas, published long after conversion (Prose Edda 1665, Poetic Edda 1787), likely represent reconstructed or invented myth.
Their eschatology: Ragnarök, the apocalyptic final battle, and the survival of two humans, mirrors Revelation too neatly to be coincidence. These texts may have been created to frame paganism as a flawed echo of Christian truth, reinforcing the inevitability of the Church’s narrative. The wolf survived, but only in disguise. To remember it was to resist, and that memory was marked for destruction.