The Nordic Religion (also called Nordic Paganism) is the term used to describe the belief system common to the people who inhabited many of the Nordic countries before and during the Christianization of Northern Europe in a historical period known as the Viking Age. The Nordic religion is a subset of Germanic mythology, practiced in the lands inhabited by these Germanic tribes throughout Central and Northern Europe. The present knowledge of Nordic paganism was for the most part acquired through the study of archaeological, etymological, and the few written materials of the period.
This religion had many gods, among them:
Odin is considered the chief god of the clan of the gods Aesir, the most important clan of gods of Norse mythology and the beliefs of the Germanic neopagan religions. He is also known as "Father of All" and "The Envoy of the Warlord."
Thor is the Norse god, of thunder and battles. It belongs to the clan of the gods Aesir, and is son of the god Odin. Thor uses the hammer Mjolnir as his weapon, and has the Megingjord belt, which bends his strength. It is associated with thunder, lightning, storms, oak trees, strength, protection of humanity and also sanctification, healing and fertility and war.
Frigg is the Mother Goddess of the Aesir dynasty in Norse mythology. Odin's wife and Thor's stepmother and Loki's foster mother is the goddess of fertility, love and marriage. She is also the protector of the family, mothers and housewives, and a symbol of sweetness.
The Organismic perspective is supported by theories in psychology which all point to the common organization and unity of human beings in terms of each individual's inherent growth or developmental tendency. The idea of a theory such as this dates back to the publication of Kurt Goldstein's The organism.
Organismic theory was especially influenced in psychology by the Gestalt psychology.
