Almost every culture has looked into the world and concluded there is a higher power at work to create the wonder of nature, the change of seasons, storms, and everything we experience in this life. It is as St. Paul wrote in the letter to the Romans: “For what can be known about God is evident to them, because God made it evident to them” (1:19). Every culture has come to different conclusions and I have always wondered if there is a correlation between culture and the perception of God. I am sure there is an academic treatment of the topic that has studied the culture and its mythology. For example, is we were Vikings we’d have Odin (wisdom, knowledge, war, and more), Frig (Marriage, Family, and Motherhood), Thor (Odin’s son: thunder, storms and strength), Loki (trickster, and tempter, father of Hel), Hel (guardian of the underworld) and Freya (goddess of fate, love, beauty, gold, war and fertility). If they made up the pantheon of our deities, what should we the people be like? I suspect it makes a difference. Continue reading →