The Song of the She-Wolf - Hyndluljóð Poetic Edda

Was there a Mystery Cult in Pagan Scandinavia? If I was to pick just one Edda poem to argue this case, the Song of the She-Wolf would be the one. Mystery cults were Pagan Pantheist cults of initiation into the Mysteries of the All-Soul, often depicted as the Great Goddess. The initiation involved a journey into the Underworld and the experience of salvation from oblivion in death through the mercy and guidance of the goddess. The most famous Mystery Cults were the Cult of Isis and the cult of Demeter in Eleusis, Greece. The Roman scribe Tactius wrote in his work “Germania“ of 90 AD that the cult of Isis existed in Germany. It could, however, have been a cult of Freyia, since Tacitus translated all the Germanic gods into Latin counterparts (Egyptian Isis was latinized by then, and the goddess most similar to Freyia). Mystery Cults spread far and wide and I believe there is ample evidence that it also existed in Scandinavia. As Scandinavia was not conver