My take is that a great deal of Heathenry and the history of Germanic peoples speaks strongly against cultural purity.
First we have the fact that there is evidence -- linguist John McWhorter talks about this in his book Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue -- that proto-Germanic was the result of contact and hybridization between an Indo-European and a Semitic language (probably Phoenician). So German culture was never pure (nor has any other culture ever been).
Second, there's the fact that the Heathen gods aren't a single group, but two: the Aesir and Vanir, who seem to have come from completely different backgrounds, but now accept and intermingle with each other. (One of these days, I'd like to sit down and compare the Vanir and Semitic deities to see if there's any similarities.)
And speaking of the Vanir, there's Freya. I wasn't signed in when I made it, but a few weeks ago I posted my interpretation of the myth of Freya's wanderings for her lost Odr, and her promiscuity, on MM:
In other words, perhaps Freya's loss and search represent the distancing of spiritual forces from humanity and the need ever since for occultists to scour the world for lore that will reconnect them to the Divine. This also gives a different meaning to Freya's promiscuity: occultists and magicians are to take wisdom where we can find it, not by committing to One True Way.
A Foolish Quest for Consistency
First we have the fact that there is evidence -- linguist John McWhorter talks about this in his book Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue -- that proto-Germanic was the result of contact and hybridization between an Indo-European and a Semitic language (probably Phoenician). So German culture was never pure (nor has any other culture ever been).
Second, there's the fact that the Heathen gods aren't a single group, but two: the Aesir and Vanir, who seem to have come from completely different backgrounds, but now accept and intermingle with each other. (One of these days, I'd like to sit down and compare the Vanir and Semitic deities to see if there's any similarities.)
And speaking of the Vanir, there's Freya. I wasn't signed in when I made it, but a few weeks ago I posted my interpretation of the myth of Freya's wanderings for her lost Odr, and her promiscuity, on MM:
https://ecosophia.dreamwidth.org/142391.html?thread=17478711#cmt17478711