Loki was Called The Accuser

 

A depiction of Lokasenna (1895) by Lorenz Frølich (public domain)

 

 

 

Loki was expelled from the Aesir due to the death of Balder and the murder of a god named Fimageng by Loki.  A poem called the Lokasenna describes how he entered a banquet hall and confronted all of the gods as being guilty of something.  He is asked to leave and threatened by Thor.  Finally he leaves and hides in a river as a salmon.  Finally the gods find him, and chain him in a cave to be tortured by the venom of a snake for eternity.

 

 

Here are some passages from this poem from the Poetic Edda:

 

Loki spoke:

"Remember Othin, in olden days

That we both our blood have mixed;

then didst thou promise no ale to pour,

Unless it were brought for us both."

 

Othin spake:

"Stand forth then, Vithar, and let the wolf's father

Find a seat at our feast;

Lest evil should Loki speak aloud

Here within Aegir's hall."

 

Then Vithar arose and poured drink for Loki; but before he drank he spoke to the gods:

"Hail to you gods! ye goddesses, hail!

Hail to the holy throng!

Save for the god who yonder sits,

Bragi there on the bench."

 

 

Loki continues on making accusations about each god and goddesses and taunting them with his insults.  This is why he is called the accuser.  Finally, Thor threatens him with his hammer, Mjollnir.

 

 

Then came Thor forth, and spake:

"Unmanly one, cease, or the mighty hammer,

Mjollnir, shall close thy mouth;

Thy shoulder-cliff shall I cleave from they neck,

And so shall thy life be lost."

 

 

Finally Loki leaves and hides in Franang's waterfall, but is found and bound.  He tries so hard to escape that he causes earthquakes.

 

 

 

The title of "accuser" has been given to Satan.  My theory is that Loki is the same as Satan and his other name Lucifer.  He is hated by God Odin-Zeus for his part in the murder of Dionysus-Osiris-Balder.  This story is the Nordic way of telling the story in poetic form and with imagery that is easy to remember and pass on to future generations in the guise of mythology.

 

 

by Rita Jean Moran (www.thelibrarykids.com and www.hiddenhumanstory.com)

 

 

Links:

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poetic_Edda

 

 



The Death of Balder

 

Loki and Sigyn (1863) by Mårten Eskil Winge (public domain)

It is said that nothing could harm Balder except for one thing, mistletoe.  One day, Balder played a game where he let men shoot arrows and throw things at him, since none would harm him.  Then Loki, being the trickster her was, made an arrow of mistletoe and got the blind got Hoder to shoot it at Balder.  It killed him.

Hodr was killed for this act and Loki was blamed for the death of Balder and punished by being chained in a cave where a snake drips burning venom on him.  His wife Sigyn, tries to catch the venom in a bowl before it burns Loki, but can't always catch it because she has to empty the bowl eventually.

This tale of the death of Balder, is the Nordic version of the death and murder of Dionysus-Osiris by Prometheus-Set and the other conspirators. 


by Rita Jean Moran (www.thelibrarykids.com and www.hiddenhumanstory.com)

Links:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baldr

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loki

Nordic Gods and Goddesses Frigg, Thor, Tyr, Balder, Loki, and Hermoor

 

A depiction of Odin and Frigg (1895) by Lorenz Frølich (public domain)

 

Frigg is the wife of Odin-Zeus and is the Greek Hera.

 

Thor's Battle Against the Jötnar (1872) by Mårten Eskil Winge (public domain)

Thor is a powerful warrior and is the Greek Heracles.


Tyr is also a God of War and is the Greek Ares.

 

Tyr sacrifices his arm to Fenrir in a 1911 illustration by John Bauer. (public domain)

Loki is a trickster God and is responsible for the death of Balder.  He is the Greek Prometheus.

 

Loki, from an 18th-century Icelandic manuscript (public domain)

Balder is the murdered son of Odin who died by the trickery of Loki.  He is the Greek Dionysus.

 

Baldr's Death" (1817) by Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg.(public domain)

 

Hermóðr rides to Hel on Sleipnir. He meets Hel and Baldr. From the 18th century Icelandic manuscript NKS 1867 4to. (public domain)

Hermoor is the messenger of Odin and he is the Greek Hermes.



I have shown through my Mythological Unification Theory that as with other mythologies, the Nordic Gods and Goddesses (referred to as originally from Asia and not Nordic by Snorri Sturluson's Heimskringla) are the same as the Cronide family and Greek god/goddess equivalents.


by Rita Jean Moran (www.thelibrarykids.com and www.hiddenhumanstory.com)



Links:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frigg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thor

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%BDr

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loki

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herm%C3%B3%C3%B0r


by Rita Jean Moran (www.thelibrarykids.com and www.hiddenhumanstory.com)

God and Satan