Nordic Halloween
An early Halloween comic. Idea by Sbaldur.
America is dressed as the Marvel god/superhero Thor, while the rest are dressed as the version of the gods from the comic "Valhalla". Sweden is dressed as Odin.
One superhero that for sure will never be taken seriously in Scandinavia is Thor. Ever.
"Valhalla" is a re-interpretation of the old myths. For example, even though he’s a jackass, Loki doesn’t turn more and more evil. It’s just the other gods who trust him less and less because he keep causing trouble, and in the end they start blaming him for things he didn’t do.
In the story about Balder’s death he doesn’t intend for Balder to die. He just wanted to make a fool of Balder’s brother Hod by making him think he could hurt his brother with a mistletoe. So Loki was just as surprised as everybody else when it killed Balder.
Neither did he betray the gods during Ragnarok. The jotuns captured him without the gods knowing, so when the battle started they saw him on the jotuns’ side. He tried to get over to the gods, but was attacked by Heimdal.
In 1986 the comic got turned into a cartoon http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNX_Heix390
Iceland Denmark Beerghost Finland Sweden America Halloween Norway
26th October 2010
7 years ago #9718037
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America comes in, my reaction is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApIqyoGUMdM
10 years ago #9400200
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I actually enjoyed the "Thor" movies and " The Avengers" but Thor the comic book hero is not a norse god. ^^
11 years ago #9278700
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Hey, us Americans with a shred of literacy are just as disgusted every time Marvel Thor spouts mangled Elizabethan English.
That's like Lady Deathstrike speaking thick Hawaiian Pidgin.
That's like Lady Deathstrike speaking thick Hawaiian Pidgin.
11 years ago #9228588
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Well of course USA has the wrong image of the Nordic gods they have the wrong image about pretty much anything 
3 years ago #9876012
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"One man's god is another man's devil". As each subsequent civilization became a dominant power, among its first acts was to depose and demonize whoever the previous culture had worshiped. The Jews attacked Belial, the god of Babylonians. The Christians banished Pan and Loki and Mars, the respective deities of the ancient Greeks and Celts and Romans.
Satan is depicted with cloven hooves coz... Pan had them, and he carries pitchfork based on the trident carried by Neptune. All the demons of Hell formerly reigned as gods in previous cultures.
Even the word "demon" originates with Christian theologians who misinterpreted "daimon" in the writing of Socrates. Originally the word meant 'muse' or 'inspiration,' but its most common definition was "god."
Who could imagine that cross-cultural anthropological theology could be so absolutely fascinating
~DAMNED, Chuck Palahniuk~
Satan is depicted with cloven hooves coz... Pan had them, and he carries pitchfork based on the trident carried by Neptune. All the demons of Hell formerly reigned as gods in previous cultures.
Even the word "demon" originates with Christian theologians who misinterpreted "daimon" in the writing of Socrates. Originally the word meant 'muse' or 'inspiration,' but its most common definition was "god."
Who could imagine that cross-cultural anthropological theology could be so absolutely fascinating
~DAMNED, Chuck Palahniuk~
3 years ago #9875948
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Me (murican w/ Ukrainian and irish roots) to murica :That is actually how norse gods look and marvels thor is entierly wrong. for instance, loki is (historicaly) odins blood brother not adopted child and Sif isblond and married to thor and ragnarok is entierly different and... you know what just read these *hands D'aulairs book of norse myths, Neil Gaiman"s Norse Mythology, and a translated edda*
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