![]() ![]() Unlike the Norse god of mischief, however, she does not interfere. One interesting, though very dark, tale of Eris has her, like Loki, pitting craftsmen against each other to cause problems. The Greek poet Hesiod wrote that she had 13 children including “Forgetfulness,” “Starvation,” “Manslaughters,” and “Disputes.” Perhaps the most unexpected of her “children” were “Oaths,” as Hesiod claimed that men taking oaths without thinking caused more problems than anything else ever could. Little is known of her life, her adventures, or her family. However, besides being present to cause havoc among gods and men, she never appears to play a larger role in stories. Eris: The Greek Goddess of Discord and StrifeĮris, the Greek goddess of strife, the Roman Discordia, brought chaos and problems to all she visited.Įris appears to be an ever-present goddess, though sometimes sent directly by others. The dwarves would never learn that the fly was, in fact, Loki himself, using his supernatural powers to ensure the bet would be won. Having won the bet, Loki left with the hammer and gave it to the thunder god as a present. However, when the fly bit the eye of one of the dwarves, he accidentally made the handle of the hammer slightly shorter than it should have been. Their measurements were careful, their hands firm, and if it wasn’t for a pesky fly biting them all the time, they may have produced something perfect. These dwarves, determined to kill Loki, got to work. ![]() He bet them his own head that they could not produce something better than the world’s greatest craftsman, the “Sons of Ivaldi.” Hair made of literal gold.īeing so impressed with the dwarves’ work, he decided to trick them into making more great wonders for him. Thor told Loki that, if he wanted to live, he had to go to the dwarven craftsman and make her new hair. Her golden yellow locks were famous around the world and Thor did not find the prank funny. Loki had thought it a prank to cut off the golden hair of the goddess Sif, wife of Thor. READ MORE: Loki: Norse God of Mischief and Excellent Shapeshifter How Was Mjolnir Made? The story of how the hammer came to be is found in the “Skáldskaparmál,” the second part of the Prose Edda. The symbol of the hammer was used as a good luck symbol and has been found in jewelry, coins, art, and architecture. In Norse mythology, Mjolnir was not just a weapon but a divine instrument, having great spiritual power. One of the best-known tales of Loki also happens to be the tale of how Thor’s famous hammer, Mjolnir, was made. However, by comparing them, scholars were able to recreate many of the great stories from Norse mythology, many of which had held oral tradition for millennia. Only seven copies of the text exist from before 1600, each of them incomplete. Most of the tales of Loki we know today come from The Prose Edda, a thirteenth-century textbook. Today, few academics make this link but discuss if Loki is also the Norse god Lóðurr, who created the first humans. This theory became especially popular with Aryan theorists who were tasked by The Third Reich with proving that all religions stemmed from Norse mythology. In modern times, many people have suggested that Loki’s “trickery” shows similarities to Christianity’s Lucifer. “Loki” is a term for “web spinners,” spiders, and some stories even talk about the god as a spider.Įven the word “spiderweb” in Swedish could be translated literally as “Loki’s net.” Perhaps this is why Loki is sometimes also referred to as the patron god of fishermen, and not at all surprising that he is sometimes called “the tangler.” However, he did claim to have had an affair with the god of thunder’s wife, Sif, and went on many adventures with the more famous deity.Įven the name tells us a little about Loki the trickster god. While today people know Loki from the character in Marvel movies played by British actor Tom Hiddleston, the original tales of the god of mischief was not Thor’s brother, or related to Odin. The Norse god Loki is described in Norse mythology as “very capricious in behavior” and “having tricks for every purpose.” Who is the Most Powerful Trickster God?.Anansi: The African Spider God of Mischief.Wisakedjak and the Creation of the Moon.Wisakedjak: The Clever Crane of Navajo Mythology.The Fable of Eris and Heracles (Fable 534).Eris: The Greek Goddess of Discord and Strife.
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