100 things mythology [003/100]

[rainmage]

Nope, I haven't forgotten! I've just been sick lately and I wasn't feeling geeky enough to do it. I was going to make more graphics too, but in the end I thought it was too bleagh of an idea. So anyway, here's the disgusting conclusion to the Norse creation myth.

Warnings: bit of gore again, dwarf bashing, lack of cheerful LEGO

Comments

[mairenn_k]

Talking of creating weird stuff out of body parts, you've heard about Naglfar, right? You know, the large ship made of dead people's fingernails and toenails. I always wondered how they managed to keep it afloat

[rainmage]

That boat is another in the collection of Really Gross But Small Things That Squicked Me. There are stuff you really shouldn't recycle. But Freyr has a folding ship, so I guess it doesn't matter if they break any laws of physics

[mairenn_k]

Lately in young adult and children literature I saw more instances of ginger Lokis, so I guess it's the newest trend now.

I hope so, that’d be a welcome change. I like to imagine him as blonde too, for some reason.

I suppose the exotic thing comes from him being a Jotunn

Yes, probably. On the other hand, some jötunn like Gerd and Skade are often portrayed as fair and beautiful, so it still bothers me that only Loke - the traitor, the one who can’t be trusted, etc. - is given different looks.

Freja’s almost always painted blonde, yes. As for the slut-shaming, that wouldn’t surprise me at all, although in most stories I’ve read (IIRC) she’s still being treated respectfully, being such an important goddess and all. There’s this poem where Loke is trying to slut-shame her (and pretty much everyone else), but it only leads to Tor driving him away. And Njord is all "so what if a woman has lovers", etc., so I don’t think they were that strict on sexual moral, originally

[rainmage]

I specifically go with strawberry blond because it's neither blond or ginger but in between, just like Loki isn't good or evil. I'm just meta like that

[lil_1337]

We live in a world made out of eyebrows. I'm not sure if that amuses me or squicks me. The whole thing is a bit distasteful.

[rainmage]

I think it's worst that it's surrounded by blood, part of which soaks us from clouds made of brain (not the Brain, as a cumulus nimbus made of megalomaniac lab mice is too silly.)

The whole thing about the eyebrows was to keep humans safe in an enclosure so the giants don't invade and kill us. So it's more we're inside/on them than being in a land made of it. However, earth is corpse flesh so YUCK anyway.

[rainmage]

There are some, surely! I can't recall which they were, but they can't be the only two cultures into those gross creations. Sometimes the guy/gal is still alive and non-dismembered, and we are chilling on a giant person.

That's neat! The Mayans also made a race of wood, but it was one of several attempts that didn't work and went scraps. In the end, the one who lasted well and had a soul was the one made of corn.

[daniela_lynx]

Very interesting post <333333 I loved it so much, and your sense of humour is amazing. ILU.

[rainmage]

I'm getting way too black humor to be comfortable, actually. Maybe I should pick something less disgusting for the next post.

[rainmage]

Oh Tolkien, you were so unsubtle about your Norse mythology nerditude in so many ways.