Some argue that religion doesn’t even exist in the first place – there is only culture, and religion is simply a significant aspect of human culture. Also, the history and phenomenology of religion tend to raise essentially philosophical questions of explanation, where the issues are often debatable. Initially a passive character in 2018’s God of War, Hræsvelgr later appears in Ragnarök to chastise Atreus for setting Garm free and causing rifts, and later deny thanks to Kratos, Mímir, Atreus, or Freya once the rifts are closed. Just prior to the start of 2018’s God of War, Faye died of an unknown cause and Kratos burns her body on a funeral pyre, as her last wish was for her ashes to be spread at the highest peak of the nine realms, eventually revealed to be in Jötunheim, where the two learn who Faye really was and that she and the giants knew of everything that would happen.

Whether this is more plausible than the subject’s soul floating out of their body is a matter of personal opinion. Kratos and Atreus seek him out to help wage war against Odin, helping him transform into the apocalyptic giant that was prophesied to destroy Asgard in Ragnarök. John Milton’s 1667 epic Paradise Lost describes the fallen angels collecting around Satan, stating that, though their heavenly names had been “blotted out and ras’d”, they would acquire new ones “wandring ore the Earth” as false gods. Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. Following the destruction of Asgard, Kratos, Freya, and Mímir deduce that the legends were true and that the young Jörmungandr was knocked back in time while the current Jörmungandr is still present in Midgard. The younger Jörmungandr joins the siege of Asgard, where he battles Thor before he is knocked back in time.

Mímir reveals that Jörmungandr had already experienced the end of Ragnarök and his battle with Thor, but was sent back in time. He hates the Æsir gods, in particular Thor, which was made evident when he swallowed a statue of the god which unknowingly contained Mímir’s missing eye, to which Kratos and Atreus have to go inside Jörmungandr’s belly to retrieve. He eventually battled with Thor, who killed the giant. The Valkyries are female warriors and servants of Odin who are responsible for taking warriors to Valhalla upon their death in the mortal realm. Due to Freya’s betrayal, Odin cursed the nine Valkyries to remain in a physical form, an unnatural state for a Valkyrie, which drove them to insanity due to a prolonged period in that form. After Odin cursed the Valkyries, she was found in a hidden chamber in Midgard in God of War (2018). She returns in Ragnarök as a resurrected shield maiden who allies with Kratos and Freya in the attack on Asgard, and ultimately survives Ragnarök.

She was found in a hidden chamber in Midgard in God of War (2018). Initially taught by her father in the ways of herbal medicine, she rejected her father’s teachings in lieu of magic healing after he died from an unknown illness. She was found within the maze-like structure in Niflheim in God of War (2018). She returns in Ragnarök as a resurrected shield maiden who allies with Kratos and Freya in the attack on Asgard, though it is unknown if she survives Ragnarök as she is not present in Midgard after the battle. In God of War (2018), she was found at the top of the large volcano in Muspelheim as the sixth and final Trial of Muspelheim. Jörmungandr – The World Serpent, who, in 2018’s God of War, was believed to be the last remaining giant on Midgard and is so large that he wraps around the world. In an influential article, “The New Map of the Universe of Faiths” (1973a), Hick raised the possibility that many of the great world religions are revelatory of the Real. Why Snoopy, of all the cartoons in the world?