Comparing Pagan Religious Kosmogonia and Cosmogony

Many authors have suggested that Odin migrated from Asia (thus he is of the Aesir), and when he reached the North Germanic region, which included Southern Sweden, a war took place between the North Germanic Vanir and the Aesir. Eventually a truce was created and a meld of the religions and cultures of the Vanir and Aesir was forged. One could say the Vanir Earth Mother, Nerthus, and her consort, Ingwaz, synthesized with the Sky Father, Odin, and his family, eventually creating the mature faith of the Aesir or Odinism. An aside to this is that there are overtones of the Vanir religion in the Cybele-Attis religion of ancient Turkey.

I think it is interesting and illustrative to symbolically compare this ancient Northern and Asian kosmogonia to the kosmogonia and cosmogony of the Evolutionary Outward Path of the Theoevolutionary Church. Symbolically, the cosmos (with a “c”) of Nerthus/Ingwaz evolves to the kosmos (with a “k”) of Odin. The cosmos of Nerthus develops out of basic elements forged in big bangs and star formations, as explained by science, but activated by the Spirit-Will, and then the cosmos evolves upward in consciousness, intelligence and complexity to human beings, and beyond humans all the way to Kosmic Godhood. The earth mother cosmos of the Vanir gives birth to the Skyfather Kosmic Godhood of the Aesir.

Life which has not evolved falls back in entropy and collapse, or symbolically falls back to Nerthus, the mother of all elements, from which new cosmos give birth, each with a chance to evolve all the way up to Kosmic Godhood through the Evolutionary Outward Path.

Ing, the Spirit-Will, gestates in Nerthus, the material world, and activates life to evolve to Godhood, shaped by evolution.

To differentiate, the Involutionary Inward Path of Traditional Religions, including Christianity, attains the Inward God or Father Within, that is the inward, virtual, experience of the outward Godhood reached through the Evolutionary Outward Path of evolution.  Both are included in the Twofold Path of the Theoevolutionary Church.