About Loki

What is Loki? Who is Loki?

Loki is the man, Loki are the emotions of the man, Loki are the excesses of the man, Loki is the man who seeks to detach himself from others with a little emotion. Neither good nor bad, he constantly provokes the ordered intellect (Odin) to invite it to action, since knowledge without movement cannot be called wisdom.

Although his antics often caused great damage, he was skilled and swift enough to remedy the situation and restore order before the end was disastrous. In the same way that he erred, he possessed the gift of devising the means to solve the situation, a virtue that humans have who, even in the worst possible scenario, can, with determination and using their own brains, make their way towards the future success.

Loki as well as causing the problems also gives the tools to solve them. Ragnarök is caused by Loki but in turn he himself provides the gods with weapons and advantages to face it. The opportunities are thrown, but they depend on the beneficiaries if they will take advantage of them for their good or, instead, they will lead to ruin. The key that Loki has given to mortals is, above all, the grace of being cunning...

I found this fragment over there and although the rest was quite absurd, I liked this part

I will transcribe some fragments, this fragment belong to prologue:

(…)I will use all the methods that are within my reach to reveal his true nature, I will go beyond all the stories that have been told to us and I will defend him in a trial that was established immemorial times ago and that still continues day after day.My accused will be the one who, after all, will guide me, through the true facts, who will allow me to walk the paths that lead to his true identity.He has been the victim of the silence to which he has been condemned, his true nature has been buried in oblivion, plunged in the mists of time. His name has been scattered as if blown by the wind, through millions of worlds, beliefs, through interpretations that the only thing they have done was move him further and further away from himself.(…)

Thanks to the artist Hedwig @redmayniac-roleplayer @ladybalem your work is great and Loki and me are proud to have you in our team!

After much searching I finally found someone capable of capturing the spirit of my book.

This experience of selection of drawings told me two things: the first was that there are more misinformed people and attached to Christian interpretations than I had believed and the second is that thanks to that discovery the publication of my book is absolutely essential.

There are many people out there who say they know but don't know, there are many false interpretations of the true content of Eddas, there is a lot of ignorance especially of the original versions.

Those who know me already know that I am writing a book 📖 that will be my "defense" against false accusations towards Loki because of the misinterpretation of the Eddas written under an absolutely Christian influence. ⚖️

I am looking for illustrators who want to join the project. ✍️

I am still writing the book and there is a long way to its publication so there is time to choose the drawings.

Those who want to participate can send me an e-mail💌 to [email protected]

I will be publishing the titles of the chapters and it will be easy to have an idea of ​​what each image should reflect. ⏳

Of course, the illustrator will be entitled to royalties once the book is published.💰

This is new to me so we will be learning togheter 🤗

Loki’s Day

Each day of the seven day week held a special significance to a god.  Sunday was the day sacred to the Sun, Monday the Moon, Tuesday Tyr, Wednesday Odin, Thursday Thor, Friday Frigga, and Saturday Loki.

 The name of each day sounds fairly similar to its corresponding god, with the exception of Saturday, which is often mistakenly assumed to be named for the Roman god Saturn.

Saturday, the final day of the week, was originally known as Laugardag (formed from Loki’s name, but it translates to wash-day).

 When adapted to English, the day did in fact maintain its connection to Loki.  The word Saturday is based on Sataere (the thief in ambush).  

This is simply another one of Loki’s names, used when referring to Loki as a god of agriculture (each of the gods presided over several different aspects of the universe, and Loki was no exception).  

So, although few know of it, the final day of the week is still named for Loki.

Incidentally, I’ve seen a lot of campaigns online prompting people to begin calling Saturday “Lokisday”.  Most people have no idea Saturday is named after Loki, so Loki’s significance to the day is forgotten.

 This campaign to call Saturday Lokisday seeks to reinforce Loki’s connection to the day. This is an interesting idea, and I will definitely attempt to use Lokisday as often as I can remember.

This post is dedicated to @annievvv7

This is a post about mythology and about the real right of Loki in history to have a day with his name.

I love Loki and every day is Loki day to me too, but this is a different matter, this is his right, his place within the Nordic pantheon, and I want to give him back that right.

There are two widely divergent versions of this story.

Prose Edda by Snorri Sturluson

The most familiar of the two comes from the Prose Edda of the medieval Icelandic  Snorri Sturluson. As Snorri says, the god Baldr, who here is presented as a charming, loved and innocent sufferer, had dreams that predicted his imminent death.

His mother, Frigg, turned around and got oaths from around the world that they would not harm her son. The only thing he omitted was the mistletoe, since he thought it was too small and harmless to have a real consequence in this matter. When the clever cheater Loki discovered this neglect, he made a spear of mistletoe.

While all the gods had fun throwing all the projectiles available to Baldr and laughing while things bounced on their uninjured companion, Loki approached Hodr, here portrayed as blind and quite gullible, with the spear of mistletoe. He convinced Hodr to throw the spear to Baldr to contribute to the game and honor the strength of his brother. (Hodr and Baldr were children of Odin.) With Loki guiding his hand, Hodr threw the spear towards Baldr. The weapon went through him and, to the surprise and horror of everyone present, he fell dead on the spot.

Later, Hodr was killed by the avenger of Baldr, Vali, who seems to have been conceived specifically for this purpose and whose origin is also controversial (I’ll talk about this in another post)

“Gesta Danorum”"The Danish history" by the medieval Danish historian Saxo Grammaticus.

Here, Hodr is far from the passive pawn that Snorri makes him see. Hodr de Saxo (latinized as “Hotherus”) is a character whose personality and actions best match his name, means “warrior”.

Hodr and Baldr were two great war leaders who organized their armies against each other because of a dispute over the hand of the beautiful maid Nanna. Baldr was nourishing himself with a special spiritual food that gives him invincibility, and Hodr knew he could not beat Baldr by normal means. Then Hodr undertook a long and dangerous journey to the underworld.

There, he obtained a weapon that had been charged with magical powers that would allow him to overcome the magical force induced by Baldr. (It is likely that at this point Loki was able to inform Hodr about how to kill Baldr, because he was angry about Odin’s actions, but this does not make him Baldr’s killer) Soon after, Hodr wounded Baldr in combat, and Baldr died of his wounds a few days later. However, Hodr was killed by the avenger of Baldr, who is called “Bous”.

These two stories are similar enough that they should point to the same basic story. However, they also differ in several definitive aspects, one of which is the character of Hodr.

In the first, Loki is the evil one who has the express intention of murdering a poor defenseless child (Bladr was not such a child and if we read in the same Edda when the gods torture and mock Fenrir Wolf, Baldr laughs cruelly for see him). Fenrir suffers) In the second Loki is not mentioned, not because he was not present in the story but because he was not the real murderer of Baldr.

Imagine for a moment that the version of Snorri’s story was the only one that survived to this day. This is, in fact, the case of many of the stories told by Snorri. His version of Baldr’s death is clearly far from the complete picture, and his story can not be taken literally.

Of course, the same must be said of Saxo’s version. Saxo and Snorri had superimposed but divergent objectives, and whatever their own additions to the story, and whatever the motives behind their additions, they might have been drawn from different versions of the story in the first place.

 Regardless of the reasons behind the differences between the two narrations, however, it is clear that we have two versions as different in spirit as in the details, and that none of them gives anything like the complete picture.

 This example should serve to prevent us from taking the primary sources too literally, as if they were outright stories of how the pagans of northern Europe saw the world, or how they heard stories told by someone who was clearly on one side in this story . They point to the old world view of northern Europe, yes, but that worldview is often visible only in an opaque way and hidden beneath layers of later creations.

The sources are the starting points for our knowledge of the pre-Christian Germanic world, but they are not the final points. A “stick to sources” approach will only lead us astray and allow us to be tricked by Snorri and others, just as Hodr de Snorri was too confident by Loki. To fill in the gaps, to restore much of what has been lost, we need an approach that is both more critical and intuitive at the same time. We must identify the elements that are common to multiple sources, unite them to form a more integral framework.

Here are the two versions, you decide which of them you want to believe.

Sources: https://mitologia.top/dioses-nordicos-y-criaturas/dioses-y-diosas-del-aesir/hodr/

https://www.bookdepository.com/Saxo-Grammaticus-I-History-Danes-I-Books-I-IX-Saxo-Grammaticus/9780859915021

It is very interesting to mention Loki’s kinship in Norse mythology.

He is son of a Jötun Farbauti (father) and Laufey (mother), who according to some sources could have been a goddess of Asgard.

This is exactly the reverse of the rest of Asgard’s stories where it was an As (male) who married a Jötun (female) and the last name mentioned the superior rank.

The use of a matronymic rather than a patronymic is unusual, and no doubt deliberate; matronymics were sometimes used for illegitimate children, 

That’s why Thor was Odin'son and not Jordson and that’s why Loki called him Thor son of Jord, this was a scornful way of records that his mother was of a lower status than the Aesir.

The curious fact is that he himself is called Laufey’s son and this rules out the fact that this name meant a dishonor, maybe he is meaning that his mother was a goddess (ásynja) although her name was not Laufey.

Under this concept it is logical that Loki call himself in Lokasenna Laufeyjarson and not Farbauti'son when he responds to Skathy:

We know that the pillars of the Nordic beliefs are the Order and the Chaos, they taught us that their history is built on this idea but what they did not teach us was the important one of Loki in this affirmation.

Order and Chaos, as premises for the Universe to work, not with the Christian conception of good and evil, Chaos as the necessary counterpoint for change to generate evolution, absolutely positive and natural.

Evolution depends on Chaos, stars are formed because of Chaos, everything happens and even so Loki, the God of Chaos, is relegated of all stories.

Loki is not even considered a God for some, not an Aesir, he is being the pillar on which the Universe rests.

If we do not understand this, we have not understood anything.

Someone distorted the stories because he knew that a Christian look would take care of the rest.

Loki is the opposite of order, not good and thanks to him the Universe keeps turning.

Today I spoke to a Spanish odinist, we started a discussion about the Eddas and about my point of view about the Christian interpretation of them.

I told him about my book and told him that I am Lokean, he told me that he did not know many Lokeans and I asked him why he thought there were more Odinists than Lokeans, he said it was because Loki had a bad reputation, he is the one who brings Ragnarok!

So I explained my idea about this, I told him about my book and what I try to demonstrate, I told him that not everything they tell us has to be necessarily true, that Loki was relegated in history, because when the Eddas were translated Christians needed to understand those stories in their terms, they needed a god and a devil, a genesis and an apocalypse, they interpreted a completely different belief from theirs, but they transformed it at their convenience, they lied.

I told him that Loki was blamed for a crime he never committed and that it makes Odin the cruelest of the Aesir, I told him that the stories of the Eddas contradict each other, that Völupsa tells a different story, where Loki is Lodur and he directly participates in the creation of human.

I told him that the Ragnarok, if it exists, would not be caused by Loki but by Odin’s fears, and I told him that I could spend hours talking about this and that there would still be things to say.

So he started crying and told me that if what I say is true, the story would change completely, every thing that he believed would change, he said he wanted to read my book.

I know there are many who understand what I am talking about, who know the truth, but there are many others who only heard the stories they told us.

And with these words I can explain my point. THANKS @annievvv7

I follow Loki with all my heart!

I have real contact with my beloved God daily, those who know about Blots and Lokeans practices will understand what I am talking about.

The fact is that I entered this world without looking for it and my experiences had been wonderful.

But why do I keep posting photos of Tom as Loki?

That's where my sister's Anny phrase comes in.

I think Loki made his way through Tom as much as he made his way through me and because of this I could to publish certain topics, and my story "Into the Shadows" of course.

My sister Anny, a Lokean older than me, made me see this and I am infinitely grateful.

At that time I didn't know anything about  “Godspouses” and didn't understand it until a long time later.

Loki found his way to me through my dreams among other things.

I think Loki uses Marvel popularity to reach a lot of people and Tom knows and respects it.