Gods

can't sit still · Post by **can't sit still** » Fri Apr 16, 2010 7:00 pm

I see that the old 'Gods" topic is locked. What kind of BS is that?
Anyway, it seems that some of the gods are pissed off. Iceland is getting screwed by the British banks. Evidently, the gods in Iceland are retaliating. They're sending clouds of ash to Britain. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8623806.stm
I'm guessing that Vulcan is hard at work at his forge.
COOL !

Post by **AntiM** » Fri Apr 16, 2010 7:07 pm

AIIZ's old thread? He's the OP, requested it be locked, and so it was. No BS at all, any OP can request to lock their own thread.

can't sit still · Post by **can't sit still** » Fri Apr 16, 2010 7:11 pm

I understand. It was BS of him to lock it.

ygmir · Post by **ygmir** » Fri Apr 16, 2010 10:38 pm

Vulcan would not be an Icelandic God.......

can't sit still · Post by **can't sit still** » Sat Apr 17, 2010 6:48 am

Maybe he has a cousin under Iceland.

They've had to cancel tens of thousands of flights. There isn't any way to tell how long the eruption is going to last. This is going to be bad for global cooling too.

Simon of the Playa · Post by **Simon of the Playa** » Sat Apr 17, 2010 7:18 am

I blame Canada.

ygmir · Post by **ygmir** » Sat Apr 17, 2010 12:31 pm

good point, Simon, Iceland is downwind...........

can't sit still · Post by **can't sit still** » Sat Apr 17, 2010 12:35 pm

I'm not the only one who came to the conclusion that Vulcan was responsible;
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/finance/je ... ordic-god/

ygmir · Post by **ygmir** » Sat Apr 17, 2010 5:39 pm

still, though, Vulcan is not Nordic..........and, he'd be a "cousin from the woodpile"..........after all he is Mediterranean.......

can't sit still · Post by **can't sit still** » Sat Apr 17, 2010 7:19 pm

OK, is there some god of volcanism in Iceland,,, maybe Sweden?? SOMEWHERE close?

ygmir · Post by **ygmir** » Sat Apr 17, 2010 7:27 pm

I'd pin it on Loki...........the trickster.......perhaps Odin, but, probably Loki.
The Norse Gods are pretty broad spectrum, not so limited as the Mediterranean ones........many can do a lot of different things.
It could be an attempt to awaken Jormundgand.

can't sit still · Post by **can't sit still** » Sat Apr 17, 2010 7:38 pm

NOT Jormundgand, no, no ,no !! not him. Loki, we can handle with the ghostbusters,,, maybe. Jormundgand will destroy all of us. Maybe we can get Shiva to go head to head with Jormundgand.

ygmir · Post by **ygmir** » Sat Apr 17, 2010 7:47 pm

if you do that, you gotta know, Skoll, and, maybe Hati, will jump in........

then, well.................Ragnarok must surely ensue........

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Sat Apr 17, 2010 7:49 pm

The Mayans won't let Ragnarok happen until 2012. How interesting, my spellcheck recognizes Ragnarok as a word.

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Sat Apr 17, 2010 7:51 pm

And I really gotta say, who cares about DVD's threads? If you have him plonked, you can go for pages and pages without seeing a post, it's true, but it's just easier to render him invisible without all that clicking.

can't sit still · Post by **can't sit still** » Sat Apr 17, 2010 8:13 pm

OK, then RagnarÃ¶k it is. MY spellcheck has the little bar of over RagnarÃ¶k. Let's make a day of it. We can roast weenies in Hades and water ski on Styx. We can introduce the Hydra to Medusa since they have so much in common. Loki can be the Master of Ceremonies.
What else?

littleflower · Post by **littleflower** » Sat Apr 17, 2010 8:27 pm

as long as i can hang with bacchus, i'll be happy.

can't sit still · Post by **can't sit still** » Sat Apr 17, 2010 8:35 pm

OK, wine it is for Littleflower. Somewhere on the previous "god" thread, didn't we figure out that there was / is a god of refer? Wasn't there something that explained why Moses was following a burning bush all over the desert?

ygmir · Post by **ygmir** » Sat Apr 17, 2010 8:49 pm

wouldn't the "burning bush" have more to do with Mrs. Moses' brazilian treatments?

can't sit still · Post by **can't sit still** » Mon Apr 19, 2010 6:42 am

The gods know how to decorate their world. Check out the pics on this page;
http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot. ... orces.html

ygmir · Post by **ygmir** » Mon Apr 19, 2010 6:58 am

very cool.

littleflower · Post by **littleflower** » Mon Apr 19, 2010 7:16 am

very hot.

Fire_Moose · Post by **Fire_Moose** » Mon Apr 19, 2010 8:14 am

Isn't Loki like the sworn enemy of Thor? So he'd prolly be there too....

Not like it matters, in Valhalla, Anubis and Set rule!

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Mon Apr 19, 2010 12:53 pm

Loki is a trickster figure who works with both the Aesir and the Frost Giants. So it sort of depends on where in the cycle you catch him. There's that story where Thor and Loki are both fooled by the Giants into doing impossible tasks; they are on the same side then.
Is Loki Mitgard Serpent's father?

can't sit still · Post by **can't sit still** » Mon Apr 19, 2010 8:34 pm

Many of the gods are immortal. That would mean that they had a different time-sense than mortals. It's speculated by vulcanologists that Iceland is entering a new active phase. They speculate that the party is going to last 60 years;
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn1 ... works.html
Just imagine,,, 60 years of Loki grabbing airplanes. Better start working on lots of high-speed rail. Don't forget the fluoride and the cooling effect.

ygmir · Post by **ygmir** » Mon Apr 19, 2010 8:52 pm

theCryptofishist wrote:Loki is a trickster figure who works with both the Aesir and the Frost Giants. So it sort of depends on where in the cycle you catch him. There's that story where Thor and Loki are both fooled by the Giants into doing impossible tasks; they are on the same side then.
Is Loki Mitgard Serpent's father?

Aesir and Vanir, perhaps, more accurately.

some say Loki is Jormungands father.........also Slepnir...........and Fenrir.

he even shape shifted into a mare, to give birth............

He is quite the trickster. but, he also always gives you the information to extract yourself from the predicament you're in.........

He is thought responsible for earthquakes, as serpents venom drips on him.

Odin is also a trickster..........
But, I'd still put the Iceland stuff on Loki...........so much chaos from it.

Ugly Dougly · Post by **Ugly Dougly** » Tue Apr 20, 2010 10:37 am

Hephastus was the blacksmith of the Greek gods. He was lame and he was paired with Aphrodite, goddess of beauty.

Ogun is the blacksmith god of the Nigerian Yoruba. He's lame and he is paired with the goddess Osshun. Yes, she's the goddess of love and beauty.

Wasn't there a Norse myth about a lamed blacksmith?

Fire_Moose · Post by **Fire_Moose** » Tue Apr 20, 2010 10:41 am

wasn't jesus a lame blacksmith that was paired with mary, the town whore?

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Tue Apr 20, 2010 10:42 am

And Hel. I'm pretty sure that he's the father of Hel. And the mother of Slepnir, as I understood it. Yeah, that giant horse that he lured away from the building of Valhalla was the father. I love tricksters. Except when they are teaching me a lesson...

While your grasp on your own religion is going to be tighter than mine, I don't know how Odin/Woden is a trickster. Although I have a great deal more respect for him than for that puffed up piece of greecian self-involvement Zeus. You get respect for hanging yourself from the world ash for three days and giving away an eye for knowledge.

Have I asked about horseflesh? Specifically the liver?

Fire_Moose · Post by **Fire_Moose** » Tue Apr 20, 2010 10:51 am

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