Yes, I've been reading about some of the mythological sources. Most were recorded very late into history after the mythological meaning of Loki had begun to degrade, or at least that's how I read it.
I'm trying to work free of the Marvel universe stuff, though it's certainly very compelling. Branagh clearly read the character as a Shakespearean bastard, which are always my favorites anyway... my husband never got to play Edmund, but we're still hoping for Iago. :)
As for the stuff about ergi, that's certainly a big part of my fascination with the character.
I guess I'm a little surprised, since you are so poetically attuned to images of skulls and skeletons and death, that you are not more drawn to Loki, who fathered the beasts of Ragnarok. I guess I really see him through a Yeats kind of lens... a crucial part of the endless cycles of destruction that are necessary to that gyre theory of the universe.
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Date: 2014-04-29 02:02 pm (UTC)I'm trying to work free of the Marvel universe stuff, though it's certainly very compelling. Branagh clearly read the character as a Shakespearean bastard, which are always my favorites anyway... my husband never got to play Edmund, but we're still hoping for Iago. :)
As for the stuff about ergi, that's certainly a big part of my fascination with the character.
I guess I'm a little surprised, since you are so poetically attuned to images of skulls and skeletons and death, that you are not more drawn to Loki, who fathered the beasts of Ragnarok. I guess I really see him through a Yeats kind of lens... a crucial part of the endless cycles of destruction that are necessary to that gyre theory of the universe.