absolute mad lads

but if you want, i have bsky and cohost, come find me there too

a. Shielding Atreus using his own body somehow OR

b. Holding Atreus' face like this:

Loki helped but not with consequences as he told me.   I just don’t feel that and I know that’s all that boils down to it.  I just need some positive reinforcement to show my husband.   Thanks.

I’m sorry you’ve been having some religious conflict with your husband. I know how difficult that can be.

It has indeed been theorized that Loki may have been a hearth deity based on the Snaptun Stone and late Scandinavian folk tradition. See “Loki, the Vätte, and the Ash Lad“ by Eldar Heide for a rundown. The evidence is pretty shaky, but the possibility is there. Although a lot of the modern fire associations actually stem from a misunderstanding by Grimm and Wagner.

But the thing is, Loki doesn’t have to be a hearth or fire deity to be a vital figure in Norse myth. Loki is an instigator of change and a speaker of hard truths. He’s an outsider that transgresses physical or societal boundaries. Those things are important. And the dark, scary parts of him, the parts that howl deliriously in the cave, the parts that would see the world burn, are important too. Odds are that, as a Lokean, you work with Loki not in spite of these things, but because of them. And if your husband can’t respect that, he isn’t really respecting your work at all.

And so, I hope you don’t mind if I link you to some posts that defend Loki as an agent of change.

Lokavinr’s FAQ is a great place to start, with pretty thorough citations. Lokavinr’s explanation of how the concepts of innangard and utgard are misused by modern Heathens is also worth a read.

The Faroese ballad Lokka Táttur, where Loki uses his trickery for good and is unambiguously the hero. 

Grumpy Lokean Elder has a number of posts on the topic, linked here.

This thread has a lot of great points from several different devotees.

Here’s a short but powerful post on worldbreaking by hyacinth-halcyon

And I hate to blow my own horn, but here’s a post about ways Loki has had a positive impact on my own life.

If you’re able to get your hands on it, I also recommend Trickster Makes this World by Lewis Hyde.

Hopefully something in there will help you gather your thoughts and explain your views to your husband more clearly, and at least help him understand, if not agree. Good luck!