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Wolfram87
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17 Aug 2020, 4:51 am

Nope. Fidelity just isn't his strong suit. For added weirdness, Loki is also the mother of Odins horse.


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17 Aug 2020, 5:17 am

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That guy has huge pecs. :mrgreen:



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17 Aug 2020, 5:22 am

Wolfram87 wrote:
Nope. Fidelity just isn't his strong suit. For added weirdness, Loki is also the mother of Odins horse.


Well if that's the case then somebody better fix her wiki page
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigyn



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17 Aug 2020, 5:22 am

Pepe wrote:
blooiejagwa wrote:
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That guy has huge pecs. :mrgreen:


a "hel" of a guy :lol:



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17 Aug 2020, 5:23 am

BTW (off the cuff) is the dog Fenrir?



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17 Aug 2020, 5:31 am

The Fenris cub :jester:


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17 Aug 2020, 5:48 am

Dont see a mention of Hel in the wiki page.

cyberdad wrote:
BTW (off the cuff) is the dog Fenrir?

Probably Garm, the dog that guards the entrance to the underworld, and completely original and different from any other dogs in similar positions you've ever heard of.


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17 Aug 2020, 6:12 am

Wolfram87 wrote:
Dont see a mention of Hel in the wiki page.

cyberdad wrote:
BTW (off the cuff) is the dog Fenrir?

Probably Garm, the dog that guards the entrance to the underworld, and completely original and different from any other dogs in similar positions you've ever heard of.

cool! I'll remember that

The wiki page has Sygn as Loki's wife (hence the need for correction)



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17 Aug 2020, 6:26 am

She is. Like I said, Loki isn't big on the whole fidelity thing. He and Angrboda spawned Hel, Fenris and the Midgard Serpent, and in order to cheat on a bet he decided to turn into a mare and seduce a horse. The he had to stay a mare unti he gave birth to Sleipnir, Odins eight-legged horse.


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17 Aug 2020, 8:48 am

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their stories always put me off-- but i was always called Medusa by my brothers and mother. (my mom joined in most taunting, she thinks girls shouldn't have too high of a self-esteem because life is gonna break it anyway so if u have little to begin with it's 'easier to adjust' i.e. not as painful :roll: )
also, Mother Gothel from Tangled, but she is just a witch.

actually the only one I do like is Athena except for what she did to Medusa which makes NO sense - but nothing ever does in mythology. I know Medusa is basically a monster (considered to be) but she was maybe the one person I had a soft spot for in Greek mythology because she did NOT deserve it at ALL.

i've read all kinds of mythology, even went through a phase of reading aboriginal peoples' mythology in n. america and places like papua new guinea.. i do remember Pele and remember hating her.
but mythology in general is hard to remember, it just becomes too random too fast.


I actually hated Athena for what she did to poor Medusa too. I agree she did not deserve her fate, and for her involvement in the sacking of Troy during the Trojan War.

In fact that is precisely why I liked Hestia the most. She never hurt anybody and was considered the protector of the home. Followers of Hestia were expected to open their homes to those in need of a place of a place to rest. Being selfish and refusing hospitality to the needy was considered an offense to her.


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17 Aug 2020, 8:52 am

https://www.learnreligions.com/hestia-g ... th-2561993

Unlike the other vindictive goddesses, Hestia seemed more kindly and docile.


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17 Aug 2020, 3:21 pm

I'm surprised more guys responded to this topic than women...


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18 Aug 2020, 9:01 pm

I also liked Artemis and her brother Apollo. She was a tomboy Goddess of Hunting and he was an effeminate God of Music..


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18 Aug 2020, 11:41 pm

DeathEmperor413 wrote:
I actually hated Athena for what she did to poor Medusa too. I agree she did not deserve her fate, and for her involvement in the sacking of Troy during the Trojan War..


It illustrates the human-like foibles of the Greek/Roman gods. Athena was clearly jealous of the beauty of medusa and Zeus's dalliance was too much....her curse was petty but also illustrates that if you give godlike powers to beings who act like children then they will reek deadly vengeance over the smallest transgression.



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18 Aug 2020, 11:55 pm

Wolfram87 wrote:
She is. Like I said, Loki isn't big on the whole fidelity thing. He and Angrboda spawned Hel, Fenris and the Midgard Serpent, and in order to cheat on a bet he decided to turn into a mare and seduce a horse. The he had to stay a mare unti he gave birth to Sleipnir, Odins eight-legged horse.


Was Freya Odin's wife or Thors? also how come the thoroughly christianised Anglo-Saxons retained the religious days for the old gods? namely Odin's day, Thor's day and Freya's day??



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19 Aug 2020, 12:04 am

cyberdad wrote:
DeathEmperor413 wrote:
I actually hated Athena for what she did to poor Medusa too. I agree she did not deserve her fate, and for her involvement in the sacking of Troy during the Trojan War..


It illustrates the human-like foibles of the Greek/Roman gods. Athena was clearly jealous of the beauty of medusa and Zeus's dalliance was too much....her curse was petty but also illustrates that if you give godlike powers to beings who act like children then they will reek deadly vengeance over the smallest transgression.



But I guess that's what made the Pantheons so fascinating. They were neither good nor evil and had very human characteristics that were magnified by their powers and immortality.

Fankly I'd rather honor them than I would an Abrahamic God who pretends to be good (in my opinion). No offense meant.


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