Was a difficult read. A lot of jargon, and I found myself needing to go to the dictionary to look at terms. Telluric, Dionysian, Apollonian, Chthonic etc. I found his critiques on modernity highly relevant and found myself agreeing with them. The Hyperborean Theory sounded very pseudoscientific and speculative. I found his ideas on Protestantism and the comparison between it and Catholicism deeply intriguing. The disregard that Protestantism has for tradition and ritual. I found it very difficult to reconcile the discrepency between sola fide Protestantism with the rationalist secularist prosperity gospel individualism Protestantism. I'm not sure how they intersect, one is religious whilst the latter is technically atheist? But they are both Protestantism. I like how he describes the Catholic Church as an imperialist type of state. That was fascinating, and his linking of Roman Regal Paganism and Catholicism was also very well done. I found the references to Greek Mythology, Nordic Paganism, Zoroastrianism, Aztec Religion, and other obscure belief systems to go over my head as I'm not really well versed in IE beliefs. He seemed to be branching out to too many directions at some points, and it lacked like a singular focus. I didn't really like how he lumped a lot of religions together into a voluptuous goo. I prefer to study religions separately on their own merit.

All in all, this was good.