Post by lerotherabbit on Dec 13, 2015 16:12:48 GMT
Loki is the diabolical trickster god, a jokester who plays a lot of mean pranks on the gods but eventually spirals into darkness and becomes known as "the Slanderer of the Gods and the Disgrace of All Gods and Men." Loki is the son of Odin and a frost giant woman, and his children include the Goddess Hel and the giant, venomous Midgard Serpent. In the first part of the mythology, Loki is shown as a happy-go-lucky guy who can shape-shift into different animals and loves pulling practical jokes on the gods. He hides Freya's locket, tricks Thor into dressing up like a woman and getting into a fight without his magic hammer, and drinks Odin's mill right out of the carton when he's not paying attention. Everyone kind of laughs off Loki's jokes and treats him like an annoying little brother. But they don't have much of a sense of humor when Loki murders the god Baldur by tricking a blind guy into throwing mistletoe at him during a party.
Well, Baldur is another son of Odin, and he's the god of light, happiness, and being cool to people, so when Loki has him whacked, everyone gets super, super mad about it. Thor tracks Loki down, corners him into a river, and beats him in a fight. Loki tries to turn into a salmon and swim away, but Thor grabs him by the fish tail and hauls him down to the underworld, where Odin ties Loki to a big rock. Loki now struggles against this rock day and night, and the Vikings believed that earthquakes were caused by the cranky tied-up god screaming out in anger and trying to break free.
Loki is joined down in Hel by Nidhogg the dragon, a bunch of monsters, and the ghostly souls of murderers, cheaters, liars, and men who had the nerve to die of boring things like old age and illness and not be killed in battle like all good Vikings should.
In Norse Mythology, it is said that Odin can see the future, and the future is really dark and messed up. The story goes that Loki will one day break free from his nightmarish prison and lead all the monsters and souls of Hel in a huge, epic, earth-shattering war against Odin, the gods, and the spirits of those ghost Vikings who have been training in Valhalla.
The battle is known as Ragnarok, meaning "the Twilight of the Gods."
Well, Baldur is another son of Odin, and he's the god of light, happiness, and being cool to people, so when Loki has him whacked, everyone gets super, super mad about it. Thor tracks Loki down, corners him into a river, and beats him in a fight. Loki tries to turn into a salmon and swim away, but Thor grabs him by the fish tail and hauls him down to the underworld, where Odin ties Loki to a big rock. Loki now struggles against this rock day and night, and the Vikings believed that earthquakes were caused by the cranky tied-up god screaming out in anger and trying to break free.
Loki is joined down in Hel by Nidhogg the dragon, a bunch of monsters, and the ghostly souls of murderers, cheaters, liars, and men who had the nerve to die of boring things like old age and illness and not be killed in battle like all good Vikings should.
In Norse Mythology, it is said that Odin can see the future, and the future is really dark and messed up. The story goes that Loki will one day break free from his nightmarish prison and lead all the monsters and souls of Hel in a huge, epic, earth-shattering war against Odin, the gods, and the spirits of those ghost Vikings who have been training in Valhalla.
The battle is known as Ragnarok, meaning "the Twilight of the Gods."
