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[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

[dothelokimotion]

You could be considered favoured. Is it a good thing?

[aeturnus]

It'd be more than I've got back home.

[ The one that death abandoned. Thanks, Reapers. Assholes. ]

[dothelokimotion]

Perhaps. Either way, it is not a favor one can assume comes from a place of generosity.

[aeturnus]

Agreed. Why are gods so bad at gifts in mythology? [ No matter how "natural" it is, it sucks!! ]

Aside from the Sleipnir thing, you got any favorite legends?

[dothelokimotion]

I am fond of the one where Thor wore a dress.

[aeturnus]

[ Cain laughs, then takes a moment to search his memory before replying. ]

Didn't he have to do that because he lost his hammer?

[dothelokimotion]

In the early days, he often threw it too far and did not know how to recall it.

[aeturnus]

Definitely a good way to incentivize learning that.

[dothelokimotion]

It was the only way to make him learn anything.

[aeturnus]

My condolences. Kids who are stubborn about learning are a trial.

[dothelokimotion]

[ Loki lapses into a thoughtful silence. He had tried once. ]

He caught up easily enough.

[aeturnus]

[ Exactly. Whatever someone whip-smart like Loki had to deal with... Yeesh. If nothing else, there had to be frustration. ]

Glad to hear it. So, how beautiful was the dress?

[dothelokimotion]

Oh, it was stunning.

[aeturnus]

Too bad there were no cameras back then.

[dothelokimotion]

Why would we possess something so archaic?

[aeturnus]

To keep a record? What, do you have magic cameras?

[dothelokimotion]

I have my illusions. And we have our ways of keeping records. Our words are not stagnant. Our history breathes into our pages.

Do you truly believe we settle for ink and paper only?

[aeturnus]

Not necessarily but this was still ages and ages ago. Far be it from me to assume tech level of a culture on a completely different scale than mine.

[dothelokimotion]

It is not technology the way you see it.

[aeturnus]

Sufficiently advanced technology is akin to magic. Right. But if it's not stagnate then it might have only recently been discovered? Either way. Your illusions. Think you could show me?

[dothelokimotion]

Have you not already seen them?

[aeturnus]

I meant specifically the dress, because yes I've seen yours in general. They're awesome.

[dothelokimotion]

[ sent: this ]

[aeturnus]

[ He'll fuckin' take that. ]

You're a blessing upon this moon. Thank you.

[dothelokimotion]

[ you're lucky I even found it. ]

You're welcome.