Miscellaneous Myths: Loki

I'm so glad I'm not the only one who saw Odin yeeting Loki's kids into various abysses and thought "Ah yes. The beginning of the revenge arc."

“*Arrested for fish crimes* and also murder” is absolutely fantastic

something this doesn't point out about the conclusion of Loki being a god of family, is that he's simultaneously a father, mother, and playful mischievous child

Loki as a protector of families and children definitely makes sense. He's basically the John Wick of mythology. You banish his daughter, banish his son, enslave his son, chain his son, kill his final children and use their intestines to bind him to a rock to suffer torture. In response, Loki brings about the end of the world and the death of the gods; seems like they had it coming. You don't mess with someones kids.

"You can't be Jesus and Satan at the same time" Loki: "Observe"

The Aesir: throws one of Loki's kids a snake into the sea, and the other newborn goddess into the realm of the dead Also The Aesir: keep a killer wolf around until he becomes the size of a mountain because aww puppy

"8 legged horse." "Invented the net" "Loki" or other variants meaning spider in modern scandinavian. Yeah, Loki is the spider god.

Wait a minute: Loki is a mischievous household spirt. We always hear that if you don't treat household spirits well, they mess with you. So in the Aesir are shown treating Loki badly, and Loki thus messing with them. Perhaps Loki's deific function is that he is the household spirt, the "Loki" of the Aesir's household. Ultimately helpful to them, but they keep messing with him. So if the Aesir are shown as flawed, perhaps one of their flaws (which would have been a flaw to the culture) is that they often mistreat their household spirit. . .and it is that flaw that ulitimately does them in.

Imagine how ironic it would be if his worship was mainly from mothers that needed to deal daily with their children's mischief, and they prayed to Loki to protect them

Loki is just pure chaotic neutral Like I can imagine him in this scenario genuinely thinking its funny "I didn't do it" "Then why are you laughing" "Cause whoever did it is a fucking genius"

The thing I love about Loki is even with all the trickery and mischief he never once did anything mean to humans. In one story it's said that he actually had a love for humans.

All this convinces me of what I’ve always known, Bugs Bunny is the purest form of Loki.

Hades: I can't believe they mixed me with Satan! Loki: First time?

"Who's more irresponsible: the guy who gives birth to a horse or the guy who rides his nephew into battle." Wow, and I thought Norse mythology couldn't sound any weirder. XD

The story of Tyr and Fenris is ripe for dramatization- a man and his beloved wolf companion, ultimately made to betray his lupine friend over matters of a greater good, sacrificing a literal piece of himself while abusing Fenris' trust to capture him, losing a metaphorical piece of himself by the end of it and leaving Fenris alone and bitter, to one day join the enemy and thus fulfil the prophecy that this was meant to subvert. A great tragedy, given the right story telling and emphasis.

Red: apologizes for calling Loki a fire deity Also Red: explains why loki might absolutely be a fire deity

The idea of Loki being "protector of the home" would also fit with the fact that most of the myths regarding him involve him solving everyone's problems

I feel like the whole "Loki's history being frustrating to try and figure out" thing is the biggest long con from everyone's favorite green trickster.

Here in Norway, Loke/Loki is kinda a scapegoat. We blamed him for stealing our socks or spoons, making children do mischief or even grown ups cheating and stealing. We also thanked him when said spoon returned and said "oh he probably finished with it now". Later the persona turned into what is known as "vetter" wich kind of translates into "little guys/elfes" wich also fills the same role as mischievous entities. As far as we know Loke has always been a part of the Norse mythology, adopted by Odin after he slays his father and promises that his son will not grow up to be an orphan. Even the research of Thor Heyerdahl found the names Odin Tor and Loke in old Balkan writing's predating norse runes and depictions.

Btw, in Loki's feast poem in Edda, apart from some other charming accusations that fly across the table, Odin calls Loki out for living for nine years at Midgard as a lass - Loki being the shapeshifter he is changing his biology to that one of a human woman and giving birth to many kids in the meantime. Loki retorts by reminding Odin that he himself, the allfather, walked around Midgard as a prophet - that being pretty much the same thing, therefore not Odin's place to really talk. The thing is, Odin in his obsession with knowledge wished to obtain the ability of prophecy, which by aesir rules was obtainable only for women. His only chance was to live both sexually and socially as a woman at Midgard for some time, to prove himself worthy of this ability and the status of an aesir woman. Just a bit of a trans-Norse mythology fun fact, sorry.