Every great civilization requires a uniting mythos – a worldview that serves as its ideological foundation and provides a meaningful narrative for its past, present, and future. This central idea defines and reinforces a civilization’s values, identity, and destiny. Some civilizations and cultures have, for various reasons, been able to retain a consistent mythos for millennia, such as India’s Hindu tradition. The history of Europe, however, has been defined by many ideological ruptures. The first rupture occurred when Indo-Europeans invaded Europe from the Pontic-Caspian steppe. They brought with them a virile, action-oriented form of polytheism, which would gradually form the Greek, Roman, Germanic, and Slavic. forms of Paganism with which we are all familiar. Little is known about pre-Indo-European…