Baldr

Both Odysseus and Telemachus play extremely pivotal and important roles in Homer’s The Odyssey. The phrase “like father like son” can easily describe the similarities between Odysseus and Telemachus’s characters. However, no human beings are exactly alike as both characters also share a great number of differences. So although Odysseus and Telemachus are both similar in the way that they’re great heroic warriors, they differ in craftiness and arrogance which reflect Ancient Greek values. Both Odysseus and Telemachus are similar in the way that they’re great heroic warriors, which reflects the Greek values of Arete. Odysseus is already known as a Greek hero throughout the book, due to his heroics in the Trojan war, but his heroic abilities are still displayed in The Odyssey. This is especially true during book 10, when Odysseus is forced to go head to head with the Kyklops in order for him and his men to escape. Odysseus heroic mind is able to get the Kyklops drunk by saying “try some wine. Here’s liquor to wash down your scraps of men. Taste it, and see the kind of drink we carried under our planks. I meant it for an offering if you would help us home.” (9.377-381). This scene displays Odysseus’s heroic qualities because it is a great example of Odysseus being able to think through tough situations. Instead of surrendering himself or any of his men Odysseus is able to escape by manipulating the Kyklops.This trait is similar to the Greek value of Arete. This situation…

In the Nez Perce culture the trickster took the form of a coyote and was the hero. There was a monster that came and ate all the animals from the earth, but did get the coyote because he tied himself to a mountain and the monster could not reach him. Over time they became friends and the coyote started missing his old friends and wished to visit them. The monster allows the coyote to go into its stomach. While there the coyote builds a fire and cuts the heart out with a knife. Like the myth…

Frigg, would be Loki’s parents, and his siblings would, most notably, be Baldr and Thor. Another common misconception concerns Loki being the god of mischief. Since he was most likely not worshipped, he would not be the patron god of anything, but our western culture makes sense of his existence by calling him the god of mischief, because his chief role was that of Trickster (Seigfried). One last thing to remember before this next myth is that, while it is a stereotype, brothers are commonly…

own roles, they have ruled over from a small tribe to a big society that is larger than a country with diverse names. Inanna, Ishtar, and Aphrodite are the goddesses who have similar roles, personalities, and characteristics but different names because those three regions of myths are adjoined. However, the faraway continents such as Asia and America have completely different myths. Several myths in the regions has the descent in the plot of the myths, but the reasons of the descent are…

translation, Haethcyn’s killing of his own brother is also labeled an “offence”. Like Cain’s jealousy of Abel, one can come to the conclusion that Haethcyn was jealous of Herebeald. This is a logical explanation seeing as Herebeald was next in line to become king. In Meyer’s translation, the allusions are a little different. Instead of referencing the bible, Meyer chooses to go back to the roots of Beowulf and introduce Norse mythology to the poem. In his version, Meyer directly compares…

The resurrection and redemption of the gods in the eyes of the Christian audience would have been key. For this reason, casting Loki as Baldr’s murderer in Snorri’s Edda rather than his exclusion in the earlier text, the Poetic Edda, indicates that Snorri was deliberately drawing on Old Testament images of the devil to create a demonic figure that would help bring about the resurrection of judgement day more in line with Biblical teaching. Where the Poetic Edda features the blind god, Hodr,…

Why are people scared of the square root of 169 so much? It’s pretty obvious because the answer is 13. The number thirteen is a number throughout history that was always considered to be unlucky. Everywhere you go you will see people are Triskaidekaphobia (afraid of the number thirteen). Many people who are Triskaidekaphobia will avoid the number thirteen. Like, teachers will skip the number thirteen on a test or make sure an answer isn’t thirteen. Or, inside hotels there isn’t a thirteenth…

He is often accompanied by his animal companions— the wolves Geri and Freki and the ravens Huginn and Muninn, who bring him information from all over Midgard—and Odin rides the flying, eight-legged steed Sleipnir across the sky and into the underworld. Odin is attested as having many sons, most famously the god Baldr with Frigg, and is known by hundreds of names. In these texts, Odin frequently seeks knowledge in some manner and in disguise (most famously by obtaining the Mead of Poetry), at…

their Christianization during the Medieval period. ("Germanic Paganism.") Norse Mythology-body of mythology of the North Germanic people. ("Norse Mythology in”) Anglo-Saxon Mythology-belief of the existence of seven realms. Middangeard which is the human realm that we are in, and Neorxnawang which is heaven. (Wikipedia.) Continental Germanic Mythology-practiced in Central Europe, period of Christianization and continues in legends, fairy tales, and European folklore. ("Continental Germanic”)…

Earthquakes were explained by saying that they happened when Loki seized in pain. The specific myth was when Loki murdered Baldr, and was punished by having poison drip on his face from a serpent. His wife caught the venom, but when she emptied the bowl, he would writhe in pain, seizing and shaking (like an earthquake). I would say that all three accounts, Aristotle’s, Christian, and Scandinavian would qualify is primitive science. I would say primitive science counts when one makes an educated…