Comments by "Jim Luebke" (@jimluebke3869) on "Miscellaneous Myths: Loki" video.

  1. "Cleansing armaggeddon" is also a part of the Greek mythologies. They even have a word for it, "Ekpyrosis", which means "the cleansing fires of heaven" and it rolls around every 10,000 years or so to wipe out the corruption of life. I REALLY want to see some space opera with a starship named "Ekpyrosis".
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  2.  @ckl9390  "Deimos" and "Phobos" would work too. =) Although you might get morale issues in the people serving aboard. "Hans... are we the baddies?"
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  3. One thing about these old gods (stories generally, for that matter), is they're a network of resonant intuitions. A storyteller has an idea that came from who-knows-what intuitive connections, and the audience says, "Yeah, that sounds about right." The ones that sound the "rightest" (presumably having the most in common with how the world seemed to work to most people), and the stories people are most curious about or eager to hear (maybe dealing with problems that they still haven't figured out the best way to deal with), end up being told often enough and similarly enough, to be made "canon". If something like the "true" story of a chaos god is incoherent, well, maybe it's just incoherent, because it grabs a patch from here and a patch from there as different aspects of an idea are explored. Imagine the parable of Plato's Cave, where the thing that's casting the shadows on the wall is in itself a mosaic of a multitude of shadows, in an infinite regress.
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