Loki

Norse Paganism deity

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Loki was a Norse deity involved in the account of the world's creation.

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Parent belief system

  • Norse Paganism Religion · Polytheistic · 3 myths
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    Norse Paganism refers to the beliefs and traditions of people from Scandinavia: Iceland, Norway, Sweden, and Denmark.
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Top myths

Voluspa
Creation myth
Snorri Sturluson
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Mythological stories including Loki

  • Voluspa Creation myth

    Nuthsell

    An old woman, the seeress, addresses both humans and deities in a monologue that explains how the world was created, destroyed, and reborn. The world was initially raised from the sea and the sky created. Three giant maidens threaten the new world. Humans and dwarfs are created. The first war between the old deities takes place. The seeress tells Odin that the world will be destroyed. Several deities die and Loki is bound. In the final few lines, the new world resurfaces.

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MLA Modern Language Association (8th ed.)

OMNIKA Foundation Contributors. "Loki." OMNIKA – World Mythology Index, OMNIKA Foundation, 23 Aug. 2022, omnika.org/stable/1019. Accessed 11 May. 2024.

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APA American Psychological Association (6th ed.)

OMNIKA (2022, August 23). Loki. Retrieved from https://omnika.org/stable/1019

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CMS Chicago Manual of Style (16th ed.)

OMNIKA Foundation Contributors. "Loki." Las Vegas, NV: OMNIKA Foundation. Created August 23, 2022. Accessed May 11, 2024. https://omnika.org/stable/1019.

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Bibliography

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Hammarström, Harald, Robert Forkel, Martin Haspelmath, and Sebastian Bank. "Glottolog: A Database of Languages." Leipzig, Germany: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. Created 2011 [?]. Accessed August 23, 2022. https://glottolog.org.
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McTurk, Rory W., ed. A Companion to Old Norse-Icelandic Literature and Culture. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2005.
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SIL International Contributors. "ISO 639-3 Registration Authority: International Standard for Language Codes." Dallas, TX: SIL International. Accessed August 23, 2022. https://iso639-3.sil.org.
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SIL International Contributors. "ScriptSource: Index of Languages and Writing Systems." Dallas, Texas: SIL International. Created June 11, 2011. Accessed August 6, 2022. https://scriptsource.org.
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Unicode Consortium Contributors. "ISO 15924 Registration Authority: Codes for the Representation of Names of Scripts." Mountain View, CA: The Unicode Consortium. Created 2004. Accessed August 24, 2022. https://unicode.org/iso15924.
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