Comments by "DynamicWorlds" (@dynamicworlds1) on "Miscellaneous Myths: Loki" video.

I just realized that murdering Baldur could be read as trying to hook up his daughter who can't really get out and date because she's trapped in the underworld (and sparing Baldur from ragnarok)
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Not just physically, but he crosses into a lot of roles that are traditionally given to female deities and I'm seeing a lot of parallels with things like his role as being in between sides in conflict and serving as a usually cooperative balance to the dominant power group that are often given to 3rd gender roles in many societies, which is very interesting.
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@olivia892 I was thinking more getting his daughter a worthy bf, and then taking the fall for it to keep their anger away from her, like a protective parent, but yeah, he usually works in indirrect ways so it makes sense to look at even killing Baldur as the means and try and infer the ends.
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@fohb7291 it's...really unclear, actually. There's an argument that she burned with the world because she's not listed among the named survivors, but she was also not part of the battle and not high up on the world tree, to there's also a good argument that she wasn't listed among the survivors because Ragnarok never burned her realm and she is frequently not counted among the Æsir and Vanir, so it would be reasonable that she wasn't mentioned even if she survived.
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@Eric6761 technically true. Also true to phrase that as "Loki sent his daughter the best man in Asgard to sit beside her and set him up to later co-rule over a new and better world"
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An intersting, but ahistorical telling I've heard of the myth reguarding Odin and the 3 pools results in humans being freed from the bonds of fate, able to avoid them with wisdom and knowledge, but the gods being intrinsically bound to fate no matter what they do.
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