Don’t go running your mouth about Americans without knowing us! First off I disagree with your thoughts on all Americans killed Native Americans because my family never did! We came after the fact and we came from Norway and Scotland. We don’t all believe Loki’s “bad” as you put it. So don’t go throwing your two cents into a pot that it doesn’t belong in!

Brilliant. Insightful. Broad & useful thoughts shared here. Thank you very much 🥰

Generalization of an Entire people is crazy.

They’re taught about Good and Evil without understanding it philosophically.

Norse mythology, is not about good and evil. It is about chaos and order. Much like the ideas of science today, the world is created out of chaos. Between the two extremes of Fire and Ice. It’s like that video game “Primal”. Chaos and Order both have to exist, but they also always have to be in balance. Of course in the video game, Chaos is perceived as evil, and Order as good. I however, consider myself a creature of chaos. Order is petty and manmade. Chaos is divine. There’s even a scientific theory, don’t ask me what it is, called “Chaos theory.”

Norse mythology has Giants, Dwarves, Elves, and Monsters. We shouldn’t ask why are there Giants, we should ask why are there Gods?

Giants are more powerful than the gods and older. The sky is thought to be a Giant’s skull, the stars holes in that skull, like living under an egg shell.

Perhaps at first the Norse had only these Giants, Dwarves, Elves, and Monsters. Perhaps it was contact with alien cultures that led to the creation of the Gods.

The Norse had plenty of that.

Of course it is impossible to know.

The idea that the earth is the body of a dead or sleeping Giant is prevalent in England as well. At least, I heard about it in one book I read, called “Albion’s Dream”. It was pretty good.

Before Christianity and Roman ideas of Gods, the land didn’t have Gods, but it did have an idea of magic of some kind.

The Norse especially had magic.

Despite Loki killing Balder, I don’t see him as evil. He’s definitely the most entertaining. And the mystery in his pants is one of the most entertaining things in mythology. A being who is both male and female at the same time is truly powerful. Who knows both sides of that coin. This is the most important part. He is both mother and father. It is not some pretend game, it is real with Loki. Whatever he’s got under his shorts swings both ways. Who knows what it even looks like.

As a being of chaos, maybe the lack of representation isn’t because of their distaste for Loki, but because he is too strange and powerful a being to be represented. He’s a shapeshifter, maybe his form is fluid.

I’m no scholar, but I was always told that Loki was merely sly, and not evil, so him constantly being portrayed as a villain by Marvel kind of irked me.

Though I am an American now, part of my heritage is from Finland. Also Scotland, Russia, Galitzeya, and Romania.

Something else you might delve into is Norse science – for instance, how did they use the Sunstone to navigate – hard to believe they took those vessels across the Atlantic Ocean. I have seen the ships in Oslo – really hard to imagine those with their minimal freeboard in a bad storm…

My daughter lives in Norway, so your blog/newsletter helps me imagine the life she has. And, I have had the privilege to visit – lucky me.

Thank you!