chariotchild:

AUGH I had a post and then I somehow - I don’t know - reloaded the page or hit SOMETHING and it is ALL GONE. fuck.

ANYWAY.

This page, which I had to get from the Internet Archive because the original is no longer online, has an interesting Top Ten Misconceptions About Loki, which I really wish had even more detail, because honestly it raised more questions than answers.

Which reminded me of one of my favorite quotes related to Loki, from Wikipedia:

In her review of scholarly discourse involving Loki, scholar Stefanie von Schnurbein (2000) comments that “Loki, the outsider in the Northern Germanic pantheon, confounds not only his fellow deities and chronicler Snorri Sturluson [referring to the Prose Edda] but has occasioned as much quarrel among his interpreters. Hardly a monography, article, or encyclopedic entry does not begin with the reference to Loki as a staggeringly complex, confusing, and ambivalent figure who has been the catalyst of countless unresolved scholarly controversies and has elicited more problems than solutions”.

I’m bummed that site is dead; there are loads of other articles and writings that look intriguing, but they aren’t in the Wayback Machine. curses. And I really should not stay up late running web searches to find other copies of them.

I did find this, which I should not stay up to read all of but probably will anyway.

Here’s how I feel about research at the moment:

I’m saving this webpage to my files like RIGHT NOW.

I may never solve the puzzle of just what my Northern European ancestors believed, but I am going to savor and enjoy every new bit of information that comes along.

spear-maiden:

Um, folks, this isn’t exactly a new thing. We’re not all so suddenly seeing Loki’s darker side. When I first heard about the incident myfuckingspiritualityblog explained, I was..constantly recalling another story I heard from a Lokean Priestess, where Loki did use and objectified her to teach her something. (skip to “Falling in Love with a God”) Of course, this is written under the assumption Loki was the one who sent the dream.

…So, I will say again that let’s not let our confusion make us so quick to assume or accuse. If it was him, it’s not a new thing. If it wasn’t, it’s some ass who is trying desperately to ruin crap for some reason or another. 

Reblogging for great interesting.

There are some very unpleasant entities that apparently feed on fear and will do anything to get a reaction out of their victims.  It’s not unheard of for them to impersonate others, either.

What could be more terrifying than having a beloved deity turn on you - or worse, turn on a loved one?

Not saying this was absolutely positively the case, but I thought I’d throw it out there for consideration.

I’m not jumping to any conclusions at this point.  Maybe the cause is the obvious one, but maybe it’s not.  The realm of the paranormal, the supernatural, and the divine is nothing if not strange and complex.

I will be keeping my eyes open for further insights and clarification into what’s going on.  For the record, while I was reading about what was going on and feeling rather unnerved, I went to turn on some music to calm myself.  I wanted to play Play The Game by Queen, but The Seven Seas of Rhye stuck out to me for some reason.  You can read the lyrics here; make of them what you will.  I also asked Loki whether he had anything to say at all on this subject and went to a random website (think bibliomancy, but with webpages); this is the page I was sent to.  Again, make of it as you will.

Also, bear in mind that I’m not defending Loki; I figure he’s a big boy and if he’s innocent he can defend himself.

In the meantime, I hope that all those affected find peace of mind.

…When your UPG blatantly contradicts other peoples’ UPG.

I had this when I still believed in Christianity (it’s one of many reasons why I left, actually), and now I’m having it again.

Seriously, it makes me want to throw in the towel altogether and quit acting as if I have any business dabbling in anything spiritual at all.  *awfulanxietyissuesinthisregard*

What do?

newtothislokean:

Today is my first day I have ever tired to contact Loki

I have a little makeshift shrine on my desk at my dad’s so I lit a candle and asked some questions that went a little like this.

Me: so.. I’m sorry I haven’t done stuff like this before.. ok stay still if you are Loki

Flame: -stays still-

Me: ok.. so… move quickly if it is ok if I, kinda, worship you

Flame: -moves quickly-

Me: Ok… stay still if it is ok if I can come to you with problems

Flame: -moves quickly-

Me: Stay still if I can’t

Flame: -stays still-

Me: move quickly if it is because I have only recently started to worship you

Flame: -moves quickly-

Me: Move quickly if I will know when I can

Flame: -moves quickly-

Me: Ok… thank you Loki… -blows out candle-

also.. is it odd if I say when I blew out the candle it felt like some one just kissed me? Or is that just a little crazy?

Then we must both be crazy, because I’ve felt like Loki was giving me smoochies.

witchyways:

shivian:

WitchTip: don’t avoid learning deep spiritual lessons by blaming negative events on random chance, but taking credit for positive ones

aka Life with Loki

Likewise, don’t blame each and every bad thing on a higher power.  You’ll go neurotic constantly trying to find patterns in random noise.  It’s not pretty.

First, I should say I don’t take the story of Ragnarok particularly literally.  Wolves eating the sun and moon?  The Earth surviving having the sun and moon eaten?  Ridiculous.

The way I see it, the story of Ragnarok is basically saying that eventually, the forces of nature are going to destroy human civilization.  This is a fact and we know it.

Also, Norse mythology was never clear on Loki’s motivations for everything he did, and basically makes it sound as if he leads the giants just because he’s angry at the gods for locking him up.  Something that’s occurred to me is that the jotnar are Loki’s family and kin, and the jotnar represent the forces of nature.  Civilization has been quite unkind to nature lately.  For example, Loki’s mother Laufey is associated with trees, and trees are being torn down at an unprecedented rate.  Gerd is associated with the fertile earth, and the earth is being rendered poisoned and barren thanks to pollution.  It goes on.

Odin fights Ragnarok with an army of the dead.  Conservative and regressive politicians who want to maintain the status quo frequently trot out quotes by dead people or bring up how such-and-such admired historical figure would nevertolerate X.  In other words, they send the dead out to fight for them.  No, I don’t expect anyone to take this interpretation too seriously, but that’s what Odin’s zombie army makes me think of.  When it comes to making progress, the hardest foes we have to overcome are often the dead ones.

witchyways:

scorpysue:

the more I think he is looking over my shoulder like, “Yes, good.”

“Good.”

>____>

Hayyy.

That’s how it starts, dood!

At first I was all “hey, let’s not hate, everyone can worship whomever”

now I’m like

“hey guise, check out this hiddles gif, I’m part of the Lokean FB group, also did you know that *random fact about Loki and his children*”

Sneakypants.

Yo, there’s a reason I totes pegged For Your Entertainment as a Loki kind of song.  Once he’s in, he owns your heart.