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Christian Mythology and Norse Mythology have some striking similarities. [I Love Myths and Legends From All Cultures]

For example:

• Both have an achievable afterlife. However Christianity got its concept of Hell from the Norse belief of Hel.

• Both Jesus and Balder (Norse god of all that is good) die and come back from the dead.

• While the Old Testament doesn’t support the idea of an after life, the Christian Church adopted the idea of Syncretism from the pagans because it was a common belief of the pagans it was trying to convert.
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johntomSWPhd · 36-40
Yeh, because Christ is Mithra and Mithra, the Indo Europeans conquered pre IE Europe when the Mitanni Empire ruled over the Syria-Turkey region. More likely the Norse adopted the Mithraic faith, so nothing wrong in Christians doing it.