![]() ![]() But this time, the narrative was closer to home, on the borrowed shores of my own country and continent. This was another example where the institutions, dogma, and priests corrupted the legacy of the man upon which the religion was founded.Eduardo Galeano’s Genesis is full of the same crimes of genocide and greed approved and sanctioned by the pontiff and the Church. Beautifying a man who slaughtered people and converted them with the choice of Christianity or the sword was not my idea of a Saint. It finally severed my remaining faith in, or relationship with, Catholicism and Christianity. The Heimskringla certainly satisfied my cravings for those things but it also had a very unexpected result. I was enamored with mythology and epics and Vikings and the sources of Tolkien’s Middle Earth. When I was a young reader, somewhere between 12 and 15 years old, I read Snorri Sturluson’s Heimskringla: History of the Kings of Norway. ![]()
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