100 things mythology [003/100]
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
( More Ymir products and the Nine Worlds )
Warnings: bit of gore again, dwarf bashing, lack of cheerful LEGO
( More Ymir products and the Nine Worlds )
I didn't know they were blond. Hmmm. Must be the old idea of dark = sinister into play too.
I don't think that anyone in the myths except Loki bashed Freya over having slept around (Loki was calling every woman in there a slut anyway.) I also like that they respect it when she refuses to get married to random jotunn to get favors from them, which is also why the second book of Valhalla really annoyed me. But back to the slut-shaming, I mean that I see some of that in authors and scholars who talk about myths, as a lot of them are Christian and male. Paying jewelry with sex can be seen as uncomfortable.
Thor's three friends are comic-only characters, yeah! But they're so epic that I wish they were real Aesir. Madsen made a reference to the Warriors Three when Thor, Loki and Balder pretended to be random human warriors with Odin, and they were actually cosplaying as them (Loki was 'Hogur' as he's the black-haired one...)
ETA: Looked it up, here it is :D
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