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[inlaid]

[ooc: warning for stick figure drawings of a dead/partially eaten goat and horses with too many legs??

Context: thread 01, thread 02, & thread 03]

How. Why. Someone please explain.

The goats of Norse gods are apparently milked for mead, not milk? Does this make them walking, fermenting kegs on legs?



Is this why a certain god will eat the goats that pull his chariot and then resurrect them?



Do the goats remember they were killed and eaten? For eternity? I mean this sounds kind of horrifying to me. The goats pull the chariot. They are killed. They're eaten. They are brought back from the dead and then pull the chariot more or get milked for mead until someone gets the munchies again?

But more than that, I just...okay. People/Gods have two legs. Horses have four.



Simple, right? So if people or gods have babies with other people and the babies have two legs, and the horses have colts and fillies with other horses and they have four legs, how is it that a god in horse form somehow mates with a stallion and then gives birth to an eight-legged horse? How?



Why are there so many legs??



Is this also why they have the goats pulling the chariots instead of horses? The goats provide meals on wheels whereas the horses are for weird spider-horse procreation?

[If goats are for food and horses are for banging what happens to the chickens??]

Comments

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[spellslots]

You know what in retrospect I should've been clear that only one specific goat gave mead but this was worth it.

[inlaid]

why are you like this

[spellslots]

It wasn't on purpose!

[ text | un: trickster ]

[dothelokimotion]

[ Okay, he knew Taako would go wild with the information Loki provided but he hadn't expected this. This deserves a drink. ]

You see, when a horse and a god love each other very much . . . .

[spellslots]

So now it's love, huh?

[inlaid]

If you start talking about quivering flanks I'm outta here.

text, un: j.k.;

[aeturnus]

Someone introduced you to Norse mythology, I see.

[ He's cracking up holy shit. ]

I don't have any real substantial answers, but spider-horse's name is Sleipnir, he is the Best Horse and steed of Odin.

[dothelokimotion]

Thank you. He is a credit to his mother.

[inlaid]

Tell me there's an explanation for the eight legs. I mean is it magic or tinkering with the genetics or something?

Also who is Odin?

video, un: falconwings

[wingedman]

Actually, there's a goddess whose chariot is pulled by cats, too.

[Sam Wilson, font of information on Norse mythology?]

And Odin rides the, uh, spider-horse. His adoptive grand...horse.

[inlaid]

Housecats or are we talking about like, giant tigers or something? Lions maybe?

Grandhorse. Deities, Sam, please. I can only handle so much.

@cjk [ text ]

[signifies]

It's a bit of a long story, and most of it is symbolic, not literal.

[ Taako conveniently didn't mention that. That's why Clark's here to ruin his fun with facts. ]

What do you need to know?

[spellslots]

Don't ruin this with the TRUTH

[dothelokimotion]

Excuse you.

[inlaid]

[Holy shit Taako, Loki, she is going to murder you both.]

...if it's symbolic then what are the true legends behind the stories here?

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[deathkid]

this is why greek > norse
at least my dad never mated with animals
he leaves that for zeus

lmk if this is okay

[dothelokimotion]

Yes. Kidnapping young nubile women were more his style.

At least no one complained about me.

[inlaid]

I'm not from Earth or any version of it so can you please explain...all of that?

Greeks I assume are a people like the Norse but who is your father and who is Zeus?

@ciscodelamancha | text

[franciscoramon]

from the bottom of my heart: what the fuck

[inlaid]

I couldn't have said it better myself.

text; un: thunderer

[worldsaway]

Some of those pictures look rather a lot like me.

[Totally innocuous and unassuming, here.]

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[umbrastaff]

Gods are weird, but this is some next level shit. How does the eight-legged horse not trip over its legs?

text; un: soulbound

[alkahestic]

That's some interesting art.

[ it looks a lot like his brother's sad attempts. ]

do talk about gods come up often?

text; un: fresh.heir

[heirlift]

2 x 4 = 8? that's all i can think of, sorry!

nice drawings though. you should meet my friend dave, i bet you'd get along!

Video @the.boneless

[ragnarsson]

[Why must people try and bring logic into his religion? It's so much easier when people can just accept things that they are the way they are for no good reason.]

To put it simply? The gods have a lot of weird shit going on. That's what happens when the world gets formed from the body of a giant that Odin and his brother slew and the first man got licked out of the ice by a cow.

[He likely just confused Bryn further, didn't he?]