Yes, I do.
I don’t know what the ancient Norse people thought about their gods, though it may well have varied from person to person or time period to time period.
I am reminded of these threads:
My son who is taking Greek mythology as a college elective was speaking with the professor after class and happened to engage in a conversation I have often had with my son on - what I thought - was the fact that a not insignificant percentage of the population at the time actually TRULY believed many of these now pagan/historic religions.
His professor was evasive and would not confirm that this was actually true.
So dopers set me straight. I always believed that:
A) Mythology is …
As a self professed agnostic, I often have friendly debates with my “thiest” friends where I posit that humans have an intrinsic need to answer the unknown that drives religion.
Among the many specific arguments I often predict to my friends, one in particular is that hundreds or thousands of years from now as more “unknowns” are “known” today’s religions will be looked at in the same way that we today look at the Greek and Roman Gods…
You see lightning, there must be a God on a cloud throwing…