![]() This produces a mythology that, if you have more than one source, you have differing accounts, as parts of one myth are shifted from tale to tale, and new elements are added to existing stories to explain new phenomena, or to provide new stories to suit new circumstance, including political purposes. The question comes up and then the Skalds provided suitable information from the stories they themselves had heard from other skalds, or sometimes, possessed by the spirit of Loki, they made stuff up. Mythic information comes to its hearers on a "Need to Know" basis. Gaiman seems to draw Loki as a deliberate plotter, rather than a "What if?" kind of guy.Īlso, telling these myths in a roughly chronological order is not the way in which they were presented to their original audience. ![]() In my reading of the earlier translations of the Norse Canon, he is far more of a "Trickster God", a deity like “Coyote” in North American Native fables, or like "Anansi" the Trickster God of West Africa.far more likely to do things out of boredom, than from a plan dedicated to the destruction of "Goodness" and order. The "Marvel Universe" has a need to sell comic books, and so the general thrust of their publications is the use of "Loki", the God of intelligence, and mental agility as a far more Satanic and Christian Devil figure. ![]() There are several caveats I should like to raise. ![]()
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