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While reading Frog's  Mythology and the Lived Environment (2024 CE), he goes a little more into Finnish and Baltic mythology to flesh out his approach to myth as a "symbolic matrix" as a way to broadly reconcile all previous framings. This interesting & novel redefining aside, at one point Frog uses the idea that every time the Baltic storm god Perkūnas uses lightning and we hear thunder a devil is hit and/or the noise makes them flee from fear of getting hit . This idea of devils being scattered by thunder then made me think of how trolls in the Norse Lore are quite put-out by the sound of church bells, so if we look at this dynamic of audial repellence , it's probably comparatively easy to extrapolate that Thor's fatal lighting & roaring thunder got replaced in the process of conversion tactics to the clapper of a church bell instead hammering the lip to gong away trolls within earshot. In this the church displaces Thor as humanity's protector agai...

The All-Father and the Feathered Serpent palavered. Odin's grim visage creased itself even more at the bitter chocolate & chile in the jade vessel, while the golden horn of mead caused Queztalcoatl to speak in galdralag, which warped his Nahuatl into a honeyed knot. But they both knew the other for his kin-mirror; that they could trade hard-won runes for stone glyphs, learn the reshaping of themselves into eagle or plumed snake, laugh at each others' outlandish versions of forming the world, and just possibly help one another defeat their fates ... . [Odin and Quetzalcoatl, sculpted bronze figures by Lee Lawrie. Door detail, east entrance, Library of Congress John Adams Building, Washington, D.C.] #    #    # 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, pa...

David Warner Mathisen's works include Star Myths of the World and how to interpret them, Volume Four: Norse Mythology (2018), where he draws comparisons between world mythologies by applying Norse overlays to the night sky. Any of you read this? If so, any good? [Excerpt here .] #    #    # 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 .

As a juggernaut of esoteric knowledge, it's always of interest to read or hear Manly P. Hall hold forth about the hidden aspects behind a given subject. Here Hall brings to bear his recombinant & passionate telling of the myths, mixing & matching the Eddas with the Saga of the Völsungs , and his weighted interpretation of Wagner's The Ring Cycle . Given his highly accomplished masonic background and a lifetime of comparative investigations, MPH's lecture's a challenging & provocative NorsePlay of mystic thought & cosmic ideas you may not have previously considered in tandem with Norse Lore. #    #    # 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 sp...

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...