You know more pure myth than I do.
But I am a damn good mythographer. Keep posting.
The Standard (North Pontic)
Model makes it ***obligatory*** that the PIEs were Shamanists
('polydaemonists'). Their notions about religion were not to far from those
of a Souix Medicine Man a la Sitting Bull -- mucho mana, mucho machismo --
danced to a much-slowed-down, drum-driven version of Beethoven's "March" from
the incidental music to The Ruins of Athens.
We can reach back to PIE religion,
but what we can affirm lacks distinct gods and goddesses, or even a particular
sense of 'gender' in the divine.
Those things which are NOT
shared among the various stocks are those which should be looked at. In
Greece, Zeus raped Hera. In Lithuania and Germany, Lord Day-Sky did not, and in
Germany, Lord Day-Sky seems to have been essentially defunct as a religious
personality post AD 1. Robert Graves would have told us the Aesir and Vanir were
the new gods merged with the old regime. Dumezil spoke of the Vanir as the
third-function gods.
As for Snorri, he just told us good
stories; like Homer, he undoubtedly changed things for literary purpose. It's
sorta like Egil introducing rhyme into Norse poetry (it did save his head).
Mark.
The idea of Titanomachy as version of final Ragnarok is
interesting, but I think that Trojan War has some elements of a Greek
Ragnarok. Vanir and Twins (Nasatya): Dumezil stated them. They were
linked to third Function, Fertility. They are also linked to Medicine, Peace,
Children protectors. Dumezil stated that perhaps Njoerd-Freyr was
originally a pair of brothers similar to Indian Nasatya e Greek
Dioskouroi. Nowadays there are explicit features of Dioskouroi in Catholic
Saints Cosmas and Damianus (we call them Cosme & Damiao in
Portuguese).
The problem with the Vanir is that they suddenly appeared in Nordic
Myths. There's no tale about their birth. There's Njoerd and his 2 children
Freyr and Freyja. There's Guldrun. There's Beyla and Byggv. But what their
origins. A good clue to track IE myths is compare Scandinavia and India. But
who were the Indian "Vanir"? The Asuras? The multiple aspects of Shiva? The
Rudras?