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“Although you mention Venice keeping it on your tongue like a fruit pit and I say yes, perhaps Bucharest, neither of us really knows. There is only this train slipping through pastures of snow, a sleigh reaching down to touch its buried runners. We meet on the shaking platform, the wind’s broken teeth sinking into us. You unwrap your dark bread and share with me the coffee sloshing into your gloves. Telegraph posts chop the winter fields into white blocks, in each window the crude painting of a small farm. We listen to mothers scolding children in English as if we do not understand a word of it– sit still, sit still. There are few clues as to where we are: the baled wheat scattered everywhere like missing coffins. The distant yellow kitchen lights wiped with oil. Everywhere the black dipping wires stretching messages from one side of a country to the other. The men who stand on every border waving to us. Wiping ovals of breath from the windows in order to see ourselves, you touch the glass tenderly wherever it holds my face. Days later, you are showing me photographs of a woman and children smiling from the windows of your wallet. Each time the train slows, a man with our faces in the gold buttons of his coat passes through the cars muttering the name of a city. Each time we lose people. Each time I find you again between the cars, holding out a scrap of bread for me, something hot to drink, until there are no more cities and you pull me toward you, sliding your hands into my coat, telling me your name over and over, hurrying your mouth into mine. We have, each of us, nothing. We will give it to each other.”
— “For the Stranger,” Carolyn Forche
the ancient greeks both treated their gods with the utmost respect and dignity, built them grand temples, dedicated beautiful art and poetry to them, and made sculptures of them that have survived as icons in the western artistic tradition
they also painted them fucking on pottery
embrace the contradiction
Godswap 4/30
4. A favorite myth or myths of this deity Deck beneath your feet- years since you've been steady Been land bound even. Here you are the waves and wood, Are at their mercy, but in the teeth and arms All men forget the gods. Until you take aboard Dark-locked, red mouthed, bright-eyed. A king might pay A ransom for his olive skin in fur but you- The breathless wild of him- hit your knees And beg. Your brothers call you fool. They have A new course plotted for this boy, new cries to teach Lips thick enough to hide the teeth. The water Teaches too much hunger to spurn so sweet a Calf. Yet still your head stays bowed- respect Or fear, or that unworded bliss of knowing something else. His smile draws blisters on your neck, and you hear Pipework, and in the corners of your eyes the world undoes itself Like garments, snake laced and trailing vines. Your ship Unsensed, your brothers seized and over thrown Their arms against their sides in uncut leather. Your mouth is filled with blood or grapes or him As he lifts you, voice a bellow, to uneven feet.
Lokean Links - Rebloggable Version
Myths Featuring Loki:
The Poetic Edda - main index
Shortcut to poems from the Poetic Edda featuring Loki:
Völuspá: The creation myth, Ragnarok, and such
Þrymskviða: Loki and Thor crossdress to get Mjolnir back
Reginsmál: Loki pisses off a dwarf and inadvertently causes the Volsung Saga
Lokasenna: Loki crashes a party and challenges the gods to a rap battle
Völuspá hin skamma: Loki eats a witch’s heart and becomes the “father of all monsters”
The Prose Edda - main index
Shortcuts:
Skáldskaparmál: The abduction of Idunn by Thjazi, Loki tying his balls to a goat to entertain Skadi, the seal fight with Heimdall over Freyja’s necklace
Gylfaginning: The birth of Sleipnir, Loki’s binding, the visit to Útgarða-Loki
Other:
Loka Táttur: Loki rescues a kid from a giant
Keep in mind that these translations are public domain due to their age, so a lot of the scholarship in the annotations is outdated. We recommend a newer translation of the Eddas if at all possible.
Other Primary Sources:
Icelandic Saga Database
Sacred Texts
Northvegr (defunct but archived)
Thorraborinn’s List of Primary Sources
Recommended Edda Translations
Various Retellings:
The Theft of Idun’s Apples - a retelling
The Abduction of Ithunn (audio)
That one time Loki cut off Sif’s Hair
The continuation of that ^
The Building of Asgard’s Wall
Loki’s Flyting and Binding (audio)
Articles, eShrines, and Useful Loki Posts:
Wikipedia Entry on Loki - Surprisingly accurate for Wikipedia. Go nuts!
Loki’s Role in the Northern Religions
Loke in Younger Tradition
Loki, the Vätte, and the Ash Lad
Lokean Book List
Loki in the Archaeological Record
An article about Loki (written by a Lokean)
Loki as a Queer God
Dealing with Nokeans
Trickster’s Flame - A ton of personal gnosis and beliefs portrayed as fact, so take everything with a grain of salt. The prayers and stuff could still be useful though.
Temple of the Flea - Another awesome shrine to Loki with articles and stuff!
Lokaheim - One last shrine!
Lokean Playlists
Info on Heathenry and Norse Myth in General:
GLE’s Frequently Referenced Posts
Lokavinr’s Master List
Hedendom’s Resources
Fuck Yeah Norse Mythology’s Resources
Heathen Terms and Concepts
Jackson Crawford’s YouTube Channel
Huginn’s Heathen Hof
Books to Avoid
Old Norse Pronunciation Basics
Homosexuality and Gender Roles in the Viking Age
The Valkyrie Squad’s List of Non-Folkish Heathen Blogs
Other Lokean Blogs:
Grumpy Lokean Elder - a truly awesome resource!
Lokavinr - another awesome resource!
Lokisday - great insights from a new Lokean
Skytreaderdances - Miscellaneous Loki-related goodies
Ask A Lokean - What it says on the tin (and more!)
the interesting and paradoxical thing about Dionysos is that this historically ancient god is perennially depicted as newly arriving everywhere he goes. in other words he is a god of beginnings: when you first start to fall in love or get drunk or have an idea—that is the intoxication called Dionysos, new every time.
— Anne Carson [x]
“He is as bloody and raw as he is sweet. I’ve seem the Orphic God, I’ve seem the Branches’ Alchemist. If they are the same person, then I pity what happened in the halfway.” - From Sempiternus
Godswap 3/30
3. Symbols and icons of this deity
Io! Milk, honey, wine, and water A bull, a panther, a snake, my sisters Our stamping feet, our cries, our wild glance Our hands, our hair, our garlands Honeysuckle, ivy, your joyful vine My stabbing thyrsus, as yours In Athens, Thebes, the islands Our sons, our loss, our broken teeth.
Never has there been such accuracy.
–Anne Carson, Bakkhai
As a god of wine, Dionysos was known as Psychodaiktes ‘Destroyer of the Soul’ and Hypnophobes ‘Terrifier During Sleep’ - but also Luaios 'Deliverer from Care’, Theoinos, 'Exhilarator’, and even Iatros, 'the Healer’.
Bramshaw, Dionysos Exciter to Frenzy (via entrailmix)
Dionysus, Strength
Godswap 2/30
2. How did you first become aware of this deity?
When magic comes to Narnia, he
Arrives as well, retinue rejoicing,
And children flee their schools
The trees, waking, join him.
I knew a farce already, Silenus donkey back
Rosy, wanton, mouth agape for wine.
But this was different. Who was this,
Lord of transformation, in Aslan’s country?
Godswap, 1/30
1. A basic introduction of the deity.
Sing, Muse, of the twice born son of Semele
Dionysos, the epiphany, the ever-arriving.
Tell me of the manner of his creation
His time in the gold-forged womb of Zeus,
A god proven by his deeds. Tell me of this god
From great Thebes springing. He who,
Moved to anger, tears through our most beloved
With our own hands. His gift of wine,
Of bounty in the wilderness, of madness-
I will give my voice to these and, in time, to more.
I might take this as a starting place for some devotional prayers....