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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

[inlaid]

I could probably find you some. I have some countrymen in town who likely have a book or two about our nation's history and the Twelve who have lived among us since the birth of our country.

Interesting.

I don't think we've met yet. I'm Bryn.

[aeturnus]

That would be excellent. I'm all about learning the different cultures we've got going on here.

Nice to meet you. I'm Jacob.

[inlaid]

I am as well. I admit I wasn't prepared for what I learned this time around, however.

The wide variety of answers I've been getting make me wonder if I shouldn't have made my inquiries more quietly.

[aeturnus]

Unfortunately, it's pretty par for the course for that era's mythology.

Adorable stick doodles tend to draw more attention than you'd think.

[inlaid]

I have a friend who just directed me to the myths of other pantheons. Are there any specifically you're referencing? I'd rather have the warning now going into it.

Oh, no, I'm aware. At the time I was definitely trying to draw attention. And perhaps lend some humor to this in an effort to process it all better.

[aeturnus]

Greek and Roman mythologies are the big hitters for most, they share as many similarities as they do differences. Chinese and Japanese can get weird but mostly in different ways. There's plenty of other big cultures and stories and they're all some sort of messed up but I think those are currently the most infamous in my time.

Did it help?

[inlaid]

I'll be sure to remember that when I start reading up on things in more depth.

In part. If nothing else it's helped to dull the shock factor so I can discuss this all better than I might have earlier.

[aeturnus]

History is my wheelhouse so if you need help sorting through it later, you could hit me up.

The internet is excellent for that. Dulling shock factor and all.

[inlaid]

That would be extremely helpful, thank you. There are so many people here from Earth and while I know my own world's history front to back there's a great deal to grasp for other worlds plus their mythology and how much of it can be taken as fact or fiction.

Is it a method of yours as well?

[aeturnus]

Gotta be hard to sort the wheat from the chaff. I get you.

Not really. I'd say I'm just difficult to shock in the first place.

[inlaid]

Last night I would have said the same thing about myself. It normally takes a great deal to ruffle me or surprise me.

[aeturnus]

Different worlds do have a way of mixing it up. Point made.

[inlaid]

I may as well take it as a delayed reaction the culture shock of being brought here. No doubt that encompasses everything I have or will encounter in the quarantine.

[aeturnus]

On the other hand, it's perfectly okay to say "wow, I wasn't expecting that!"