“Then I will be the problem.”
Bound. Poison. A bowl held over a face.
Loki is blood-brother to Odin and father of monsters. He shears Sif’s hair and then replaces it with gold. He becomes a mare and returns with an eight-legged horse. He insults every god at the feast and is bound with his son’s guts while poison drips toward his face. His writhing is the earthquake.
He is not evil in the later moral sense. He is the principle that no closed system stays closed. The danger is when the trick becomes identity.
Inspect
INTERPRETATION
Loki is the psyche’s refusal of a false peace. He shows up as the joke, the leak, the affair, the sudden honesty. Used well, he is medicine. Used as a lifestyle, he is Ragnarök on a personal scale.
The shadow
The closed feast. The glitch that is needed, and the glitch that cannot bear to belong.
Four lookings
Campbell
Where are you the glitch a room needs, and where are you the glitch because you cannot belong?
von Franz
What shape have you taken to survive that the tale no longer requires?
Hillman
If you stopped making trouble, what quieter image would you have to feel?
Coelho
What language is the world using, that you answer only with a joke?