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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??]

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[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.

[wingedman]

I don't think they had many tigers or lions in Asgard. Could be wrong, though. You'd have to ask Thor or one of the Lokis.

[Freyja has a cloak made of falcon feathers, too. Clearly the best goddess.]

Her twin brother rides a boar with a mane that glows in the dark.

[inlaid]

Believe me I have many, many questions for Thor and Loki.

Glowing because of magic or bioluminescence?

[wingedman]

...honestly, now I just want to know if Loki takes pictures of them and posts cat memes on the internet.

[Why is that even a question you need to ask, Sam?]

Hell if I know. Even if it was bioluminescence, the Norse still would've been like "holy shit, it's magic!" because it's not like they understood chemistry.

[inlaid]

Magic and science are two very different things, however...one isn't the other simply because it isn't understood.

[wingedman]

[This is something Sam might have argued a few years ago, but between Wanda and Stephen, he's pretty damn used to magic now, and he accepts that it is, in fact, definitely a real thing.]

You know that, and I know that, but guys who lived a thousand years ago and weren't real clear on the entire concept of science to begin with? Not so much.

[inlaid]

I think we're on slightly different pages. When you said the Norse you meant the people, whereas I was still speaking of their deities.

In which case yes, I agree with you re: the mortals but our deities at least had a very clear understanding of both magic and the push and pull of science in the world.