Dreams of Gods.
For the past few nights in one way or another I have been dreaming of either Odin or Loki.
It started off simply as me falling asleep thinking on Fae, and then a voice.... Loki.... began to explain that the Fae who, despite modern stereotypes were considered once to be quite tall, and the Jotun, the giants in the Norse stories were one in the same. Tho now that I reflect, he said it while para-quoting the movie Ghostdog."One should not view these as seperate things" or words to that effect...
The next dream, just as I fell asleep, a map coalesced in my mind.. and the same voice that I knew at once to be Loki's was explaining that the Ainu, the aboriginal Caucasian people who first settled Japan, were Northmen who had sailed over the top of eurasia in an ill fated attempt to sail about the world... but after they had cleared the continent their enthusiasum died down in those cold and empty waters... and theyt sailed south landing, and settleing, on Hokkaido. As he explained a black perferated line plotted their course on the map. it was short but verymuch to the point.
the third dream was a wrestling match Between Loki and the All-father both Gods were stripped to the waist in a hall with a stained glass window... as if a church had been filled with tables and chairs(these were pushed up against the walls, however. and tho I was seeing the fight from the first person perspective,through Loki's eyes, when he spoke, he spoke to me, as did Odin. Each asking in turn, that I follow he and not the other. Admittedly I had just finished Gaiman's "American Gods" a week before this.... but the Gods in the dream looked nothing like my perception of them in the book. Odin was bald and bearded... a scar near his left eye.. which was out... but he wore no patch to conceal it... and Loki from what I could see had long tresses the colours of amber and fire. the contest was undecided when I left it... but I had the notion that the old trickster was following me the day after and I suddenly and for no reason became exceedingly hyper that evening.
this morning I awoke from a dream that seemed not at all to be about Gods. Kevin and I were going to stay in japan on an exchange program. we went through the motions of getting packed, fast forwarded to driving in japan(which looked nothing like japan,) in a small van driven by my late father of all people... up to an apartment that was originally an aluminum-sided garage.. none of this was remarkable... at all the man whose "house" we were staying in seemed nice.. kevin and I quarreled about him getting internet access and me not getting it seeing as I had not told this to my friends... and a friend of ours appeared in the dream to berate me for forgetting my book of DVD movies.. no gods at all... then... as I started to wake up I pulled back from that house.. and our host was standing in the gravel driveway... and he looked at me.... and his left orbit was ruddy and scarred where it had not been before.. and the eye set within it was a mismatched light brown.. and I knew him at once to be Odin.... and then I awoke.
It started off simply as me falling asleep thinking on Fae, and then a voice.... Loki.... began to explain that the Fae who, despite modern stereotypes were considered once to be quite tall, and the Jotun, the giants in the Norse stories were one in the same. Tho now that I reflect, he said it while para-quoting the movie Ghostdog."One should not view these as seperate things" or words to that effect...
The next dream, just as I fell asleep, a map coalesced in my mind.. and the same voice that I knew at once to be Loki's was explaining that the Ainu, the aboriginal Caucasian people who first settled Japan, were Northmen who had sailed over the top of eurasia in an ill fated attempt to sail about the world... but after they had cleared the continent their enthusiasum died down in those cold and empty waters... and theyt sailed south landing, and settleing, on Hokkaido. As he explained a black perferated line plotted their course on the map. it was short but verymuch to the point.
the third dream was a wrestling match Between Loki and the All-father both Gods were stripped to the waist in a hall with a stained glass window... as if a church had been filled with tables and chairs(these were pushed up against the walls, however. and tho I was seeing the fight from the first person perspective,through Loki's eyes, when he spoke, he spoke to me, as did Odin. Each asking in turn, that I follow he and not the other. Admittedly I had just finished Gaiman's "American Gods" a week before this.... but the Gods in the dream looked nothing like my perception of them in the book. Odin was bald and bearded... a scar near his left eye.. which was out... but he wore no patch to conceal it... and Loki from what I could see had long tresses the colours of amber and fire. the contest was undecided when I left it... but I had the notion that the old trickster was following me the day after and I suddenly and for no reason became exceedingly hyper that evening.
this morning I awoke from a dream that seemed not at all to be about Gods. Kevin and I were going to stay in japan on an exchange program. we went through the motions of getting packed, fast forwarded to driving in japan(which looked nothing like japan,) in a small van driven by my late father of all people... up to an apartment that was originally an aluminum-sided garage.. none of this was remarkable... at all the man whose "house" we were staying in seemed nice.. kevin and I quarreled about him getting internet access and me not getting it seeing as I had not told this to my friends... and a friend of ours appeared in the dream to berate me for forgetting my book of DVD movies.. no gods at all... then... as I started to wake up I pulled back from that house.. and our host was standing in the gravel driveway... and he looked at me.... and his left orbit was ruddy and scarred where it had not been before.. and the eye set within it was a mismatched light brown.. and I knew him at once to be Odin.... and then I awoke.