>>16323734>but since odin was a god, it symbolizes a passage from mortal, natural knowledge, to supernatural knowledgeBingo. And yeah, perhaps post nut clarity, endorphine rush, changes your thinking. Not the point, merely that the parallel between this and the carnal activity does exist, so the fucking is an allegory. Regarding the apple, another sure degraded account (another "branch" within the noosphere so to speak) mentions that the snek was merely guarding the tree and fell asleep while the trickster god convinced the humans to taste the apple ... implying the trickster was simply their minds making up a silly excuse why to even try that forbidden thing. If we assume the snek was a representation of nature in that story then the Jewish account inaccurately blames nature for that folly and its consequences, while the other story does shed a bit more light on what actually "occured". Heh, like children they deny responsibility and blame their nature ... :)