u/spearcarrier — reddlx

Wrote a paper, hesitantly asking if people want to look it over before I put it back under a rock.

I tackled the question that's been asking a hundred million times: what does Loki's name mean?
I did it because this kind of stuff is how I learn. And I didn't come to "Loki is fire".
I am wondering if anyone would like to take a peek at it before I put it away again. I'm not sure what I'll do with it. I don't write in a serious tone - I'm a comic book writer ffs - and there's no way a paper of mine is ever going to be dry and 100% academic. But I did set aside being a heathen to do it, because I feel you should never mix your biases with your findings.

I won't link it unless folks are okay with it. I guess?

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u/spearcarrier — 11 days ago

▲ 9 r/lokean

Hard Work For Him and His Name

I've been working very hard and being very studious. And I've written a 29 page semi-scholarly thing.

I thought there might be someone here that would like to read it. I have no idea where to submit or or if I will. I'll put it on my blog for few days; give folks a chance if they like reading stuff.

Here is the summary of what I've concluded, though:

Because no one is sure what Loki's name means, I chose to go at it from the side. I looked at Loki's culture: where he came from. Hint: not Asgard. I looked at how people were named and went from there. Then I realized which might be his true name and which may not be.

My next task is looking at his family, which will be more work. or maybe I'll look at Haustlong, which is the story of how he tricked Idunn away from her apples.

It has typos. But with no idea where in the world I could send it for publication, I'll let you guys poke at the rough draft if you like. I know reading this stuff isn't everybody's thing.

BTW: Even if you don't agree with me, your thoughts matter. I came to a conclusion about him being a fire god (or not) and stacked the evidence as hard as I could. This is because what I found pointed to something stronger, and in many ways more sacred. But in the end, this wasn't for me. This is because I made a vow over a year ago to clear his name; traded goblets in the dream and everything. My goal is to get him out of the mud, which many scholars have begun to try to do. Unfortunately that means challenging old beliefs. So I'm not here to tell you guys whose wrong or right. This is only a brainy paper about my personal conclusions and why.

Here's the link: https://therivershaman.com/lokis-identity-crisis/

u/spearcarrier — 12 days ago

▲ 3 r/pastlives

Floods at the Bottom

Hi guys. I stumbled across this reddit trying to see if there was a safe regression I could do online. Long story short: shamanic events ended up with some of my past life memories tampered with by outsiders. I was thinking of looking into "correcting the record". I grew up being taught about past lives. It used to be my thing. But we all gotta learn something new at some point in time.

But I've got this thing that I've never been able to get around. When I do a regression whether you're going down stairs or descending into the lower world, etc... I get to the bottom and either get thrown in to the ocean or the river or flushed down a drain... and I never get any farther. It's the epitome of yargh.

Tonight I was trying a regression I found on Youtube - and got to the bottom of the marble stairs. For just a moment I was reminded of when I was 3. I was in the sun on the beach with my dad in my favorite yellow bikini. Maybe I was 4. Anyhoo, there was that. Just a flash. Back out I get kicked. So I'm working down again and I was reminded of another event that I can't remember now. Some thing about me writing about the beach or something.

I get to the water and I get kicked out.

Anybody else have weird things like that?

I mean, I'd love to fix the damage to my internal sense of self/memories but I admit this mystery is super deduper intriguing on a whole 'nother level.

Edit: I'm not distressed at not being able to remember. I've been doing past life work for literally most of my life. I was raised with the concept through my parents. Somewhere at archive.org is a collection of parts of my dream journal, etc. I just thought the weirdness of what happens with this particular type of technique was worth discussing,.

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u/spearcarrier — 17 days ago