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After watching Civil War a most-important question was raised: Where's Thor during all this "oh-no-it's-a-phone-book-sized-ream-of-paper-from-the-UN" business? He's off actually doing something important, like saving worlds from frost giants. [textless cover art from Ages of Thunder by Marko Djurdjevic.] #    #    # Guillermo Maytorena IV knew there was something special in  the Norse Lore when he picked up a copy of the d'Aulaires'  Norse Gods and Giants  at age seven. Since t hen he's been fascinated by the truthful potency of Norse Mythology, passionately read & studied, embraced Ásatrú, launched the  Map of Midgard  project, and spearheaded the neologism/brand NorsePlay.   If you have e mployment/ opportunities in  investigative mythology,  field research, or product development to offer,  do contact him .

Georges Dumézil's  Gods of the Ancient Northmen  surpasses the  academic into the realm of poetic & enlightening, like a good professor when he's got love behind his lecture. And of these eight chapters, some actually are taken from Dumézil's lectures. Published in 1959, this  post-doctoral thesis level work of  comparative mythology  shows French professor  Dumézil's thoughtful expansion of the study of Norse lore from the mostly associative philology it was into a functionalist sociology, which invites easier comparisons with the Hindu gods and thus  backtracks their migration to the Indo-European. [Spanish edition cover featuring  Icelandic  Thor.] Dumézil's trifunctional hypothesis posits that the functions of the gods reflect a society's factional roles, with Odin, Thor, & Frey being the major triumvirate and thus classifying that society's members into rulers, warriors, or farmers, respectively. Also if modern Indian s...