Thread: Scientists Discover Hell

Hell is only a hot place for Christians. For the Norse pagans Helheim is the world of the afterlife. Asgard is the realm beyond the fiery wall of mist where the brave go to be with the gods and to prepare for the defence of earth when Ragnarok threatens and the thundering of the Giants is heard on the Rainbow Bridge.

All this being burned eternally is a ploy to terrorise people into becoming Christians and then when they have, to force them to obey all of this creed's prescriptions - or else. Heaven is a boring realm where no further evolution occurs and you get to listen to the maddening drone of angelic chanting forever. A kind of Hell in itself for anyone who desires to journey through the doors of the worlds and explore the mysteries of the cosmic web ;-)

....anyone who desires to journey through the doors of the worlds and explore the mysteries of the cosmic web ;-)

Can't you just get a computer and internet connection to do that?

I would agree hell is Hull. There is another place actuially called Hell, in Norway I believe. Its a hell of a journey getting there if you choose the railway line route from sweden!

snippet from wiki

Hell is a village in Lånke, Stjørdal, Norway with a population of about 1500 people. It has become a minor tourist attraction because of its name, as visitors often have their photograph taken in front of the station sign. The station sign reads "Gods-expedition", an archaic Norwegian (but current Danish) spelling of the word for "cargo handling" - godsekspedisjon would be the current spelling.

The name Hell stems from the Old Norse word hellir, which means "overhang", "cliff cave". The Norwegian word hell can also mean "luck". The Old Norse word Hel is the same as today's English Hell, and as a proper noun, Hel was the ruler of Hel. In modern Norwegian the word for hell is helvete.

Among English-speaking tourists, popular postcards depict the station with a heavy frost on the ground, making a visual joke about "Hell frozen over." Temperatures in Hell can reach -20 °C during winter.

The station itself, Hell Station, is situated at a railway junction where the rail line Nordlandsbanen north to Bodø branches off from Meråkerbanen between Trondheim and Storlien in Sweden. As most other railway stations, Hell station is unmanned.

Hell is a post town with two post codes: 7517 for delivery route adresses and 7570 for P. O. Boxes. Hell currently has a grocery store, gas station and a retirement home.

I wonder what the retirement home is like.........

Originally Posted by sweetcaroline

Can't you just get a computer and internet connection to do that?

No you can't. The Nordic mythical Hel as the third sector of a system of nine worlds is a frozen realm populated by Ice Giants. But these Jotuns are only a feature of this sector. The afterlife of mortals exists further along among the roots of Yggdrasil, at the judgement seat of the gods which is at the well of Urd, the giantess of destiny, and where the fountains of this well splash into a beautiful pool inhabited by white swans where the bow of Bifrost is mirrored in a circle of shimmering colour to make a roadway that unites all three worlds and the triplicity of flesh, spirit and the divine.

Death is wonderful for us Nordic pagans. The ancestors wait just across a river that separates Midgard from Helheim and we are accompanied to Hel by our spirit guides who only leave us when we turn our lives to evil. Those who die without their Fylgia have no one to speak for them whilst they are in the "pale ghost" stage. The dead who have maintained their hamingja proceed to Urd's well and find their directions, or wyrd, there.

We don't mind if you make jokes about us. We understand how embarrassed reality makes some folk. The Northern souls have their own journeys and don't expect anything less than ridicule from those whose maps have been mislaid or who have forsaken their ancestral inheritance for a chance to sit with a foreign Lord. Good luck to them. And our sympathy to those who end up in "Hell" instead of Hel. We have a choice in Midgard to believe lies or to find our destiny where the roots of our beginnings lie. It is entirely up to us and we don't demand anyone follows us, adopts our faith or tries to slip into Asgard on a wing and a prayer. We know this is impossible. Only Sleipnir can cross the flaming mists and only the souls of the brave will ever see Valhalla. Very few people are Norse. Many are Christian. Hell and Heaven await these acolytes and sinners. This is just as well for few will ever see the shining Halls of Valhalla and few will reach the glittering fields beneath Yggdrasil's roots. Travel light, arrive soon. And pity those whose souls disintegrate when they die. These are the ones who need cash and furniture and the trappings of their egos in order to dress up their insubstantiality. Even their Heaven has pearl encrusted gates. Wealth matters greatly to those who have sacrificed their souls.

Hell apparently contains the souls of Christian rebels, the disobedient and the evil. Heaven contains angels and the servants of angels and apparently it contains God. No one has ever returned to verify this. The gates of Heaven are closed once the soul enters and the gates of Hell gape wide and fiery to welcome the anarchists in.

A strange religion for an even stranger purpose. War among the forces. Recruitment of souls for this conflict. Dire punishment for conscientious objectors.