Abrahamists will never understand pagan animism...to them, having been made in God's image, humans are at the top of evolutionary scale and animals are a thing which He made for them to use as they see fit.
Scientists will never understand pagan animism. To them, animals are just a thing that created by some unknown force; thus, humans being created evolutionarily "superior" to animals, they have the "right" to use animals as they see fit - poke, cut, maim and dissect them alive.
Scholars will never understand animism. Having grown up immersed in an Abrahamic world view (be it through the scientific/atheist path of the unknown "magic" force that created the world or some religious one of a One God that did the same), their mental frame of reference...
...IS INDEED that of an Abrahamist.
How so? They look for a Judeo-Christian heaven in Valhalla; for a Yahweh type in Odin; for an apocalypse in Ragnarök; and believe pagans were all about blood sacrifice. Such things are the result of a millennium of Christian indoctrination.
To scholars, pagans really believed that goats could pull chariots up into the air and fly around...

"Good thing that we, the ones with the diplomas from some Christian university, are here to interpret the myths for the Europeans of today who are interested in paganism!"
Animism is, among other things, the understanding of the archetypal structures within nature and its beings.
Animism is SYMBOLIC - there is hidden meaning behind what they represent.
It is present and all over the pagan myths of Europe.
It entails an understanding of Nature and its beings in an organic level.
THAT IS WHY PAGANISM AND NATURE ARE INTRINSICALLY CONNECTED.
Hail Mother Nature!
Hail Animism!
Hail Paganism!

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