“I’m really tickled by what happens between the Hulk and Loki at the end. It’s really funny.” - Tom Hiddleston
This was fucking hilarious!
Thor is the Norse god of thunder. He is generally depicted as red-headed and bearded.
He is a son of Odin and Jord, and one of the most powerful gods. He is married to Sif, a fertility goddess. His mistress is the giantess Jarnsaxa (“iron cutlass”), and their sons are Magni and Modi and his daughter is Thrud.
Thor is helped by Thialfi, his servant and the messenger of the gods. who is Hermes in Greek Mythology and Mercury in Roman Mythology.
Thor was usually portrayed as a large, powerful man with a red beard and eyes of lighting. Despite his ferocious appearance, he was very popular as the protector of both gods and humans against the forces of evil. He even surpassed his father Odin in popularity because, contrary to Odin, he did not require human sacrifices.
In his temple at Uppsala he was shown standing with Odin at his right side. This temple was replaced by a Christian church in 1080.
The Norse believed that during a thunderstorm, Thor rode through the heavens on his chariot pulled by the goats Tanngrisni (“gap-tooth”) and Tanngnost (“tooth grinder”). Lightning flashed whenever he threw his hammer Mjollnir.
Thor wears the belt Megingjard which doubles his already considerable strength.
His hall is Bilskirnir, which is located in the region Thrudheim (“place of might”).
His greatest enemy is Jormungand, the Midgard Serpent.
At the day of Ragnarok, Thor will kill this serpent but will die from its poison. His sons will inherit his hammer after his death.
Donar is his Teutonic equivalent, while the Romans see in him their god Jupiter.
Thursday is named after him.
The most unpredictable and certainly the most dangerous god in the Northern pantheon was Loki. His activities ran from the merely mischievous to the blatantly malicious. Supremely clever, Loki ensnared everyone in complicated problems, to which he always supplied a remedy - through his solution often engendered even greater troubles.
His parents were both giants (the perpetual enemies of the gods.)
Loki is an immensely powerful magician, and shares with Odin the ability to sex and shape shift at will.
Loki was fair of face, and took many lovers, despite his constant criticism of goddesses who did the same.
His wife is Sigyn, who stayed loyal to him, even when the gods punished him for the death of Balder.
Loki’s mistress is the giantess Angrboda. With her he is the father of three monsters.
He had some unusual children, including the huge wolf borne from Loki’s brief dalliance with a giantess. Loki was the father (and in few instances the mother) of many creatures, men and monsters. Having liaisons with giantesses was nothing unusual for gods in Norse mythology - both Odin and Freyr are good examples; and since Loki was actually a giant himself, there is nothing unusual about this activity.
It is Loki who begins the chain of events that leads to the destruction of the gods. He does this by causing the death of the beautiful Baldr, Frigg’s son, who in his goodness and perfection embodies the attainment of every desirable quality. Baldr’s death plunges all of Asgard into mourning. Yet Loki feels no remorse, and in fact relishes every opportunity to exert his contrary nature.
Loki was chained to three large boulders; one under his shoulders, one under his loins and one under his knees. A poisonous snake was placed above his head. The dripping venom that lands on him is caught by Sigyn in a bowl. But every now and then, when the bowl is filled to the brim, she has to leave him to empty it. Then the poison that falls on Loki’s face makes him twist in pain, causing earthquakes.
After Frigg had gone to great lengths to bring Baldr back to the land of the living by asking all beings to weep for his return, Loki (in the guise of an old female giant) steadfastly refused to shed a single tear for the slain god. Thus Baldr was consigned to the realms of the dead, under the governance of Lady Hel.
This loss of innocence represented by Baldr’s death is the act that triggers Ragnarok, the end of all things. Ragnarok begins with famine and darkness and bitter cold - a winter lasting three entire years.
It ends with all creation becoming a flaming furnace. In the middle is staged the disastrous final battle in which the gods are arrayed against the powers of evil represented by the giants. Nearly everything and every body, in all realms, is destroyed. Loki fights against the gods, and is killed, as is Odin, Tyr, Freyr, and Thor.
Even the elves, dwarfs, Sun and Moon are destroyed. Out of this a new Earth arises, and a single man and woman, Lifthrasir and Lif, who had hidden themselves in Yggdrasil the World Tree, emerge. Baldr comes forth, and a few sons and daughters of the gods survive, and begin a fresh cycle of life.
This final lesson reminds us that nothing can remain static, even the gods and stories evolve into new.
All week I’ve had people telling me I look like Thor (obviously minus the whole ripped-muscly-part) which I am very much OK with! Thor Body Status is my current work out goal! I’ve got the hair, the eyes, and the Nordic look, just need the muscles!
If you end up with a body like his, we’re getting married and you have no say in it whatsoever!
Ahahahaha. Well you might want to hold off on the proposal ‘cause it’ll be a year or more before I get a body like this! But it will be mine, oh yes, it will be mine.
All week I’ve had people telling me I look like Thor (obviously minus the whole ripped-muscly-part) which I am very much OK with! Thor Body Status is my current work out goal! I’ve got the hair, the eyes, and the Nordic look, just need the muscles!
- For each band member, pic a Disney Character which is closest to them, including yourself.
- Well, Emppu would have to be the Rabbit from Alice in Wonderland. Yeah, he’s always in a “hurry, hurry, hurry”. When we were thinking about the characters for the Imaginaerum movie, at some point I actually said that Emppu was a rabbit, that would be too comic, but yeah, that’s what he is. - Does he know? - Yeah, he knows. He was laughin’ about it.
- Marco somehow reminds me of the Beast from the Beauty and the Beast, in a way. He’s not as fat, though but he has a lot of hair and he’s… There’s something about him, really warm inside and all that.
- Anette would be maybe Daisy Duck, because they both like pink and shopping? *laughs*
- Jukka, well, he’s like the business man of the band, he takes care of all the money… Money issues, he is a real hard worker, family man… So, all that would fit into Uncle Scrooge, except the “family man”.
- And then, when I have to talk about myself, I’m so a mixure of the nephews of Uncle Scrooge, because Scrooge is actually my favorite character of them all, we both have had amazing adventures, we both are something from the inside that you can’t see on the outside, we both live from memories… But I have absolutely no interest in money, so that’s why it’s different. And then, again, the nephews are like really adventurous, boy’s count kind of thing, which I can relate to as well, so if I may make a hybrid out of this, that would be the best description.
Tuomas Holopainen for Spazio Rock - Watch the video here
