When he put his hand in Fenrir’s mouth he knew he was going to lose it. He’s a god of war, but also law and fairness. I thought Fenrir was stupid because he knew the gods were tricking him but let them put the rope on him anyway, but I also thought Tyr was mean for being part of it. As a child I had a very surface level view of the Fenrir story. Tyr appears again in Lokasenna where he defends the god of peace, Frey, from Loki’s insults. Again only Tyr stepped forward, put his hand willingly in the wolf’s mouth and lost it as a consequence. If he couldn’t break the rope he’d bite the person’s hand off. Fenrir suspected trickery was afoot and said he’d only put it on if someone put their hand in his mouth. Only Tyr was brave enough/loved Fenrir enough to keep playing with him.Įventually the gods decided that it would be safest to tie Fenrir up but no chains could hold him so they got a magic rope that was impossible to beak. Not even Loki dared go near his own child.
He started out as a cute pup but as he grew bigger the gods started fearing him. Just to refreshen everybody’s memory, Fenrir was one of Loki’s many bizarre children. Tyr is best known from the story about the Fenrir wolf.
This was originally part of another post where I rambled on and on about not really liking the MCU Loki because he has been turned into a type of character that’s extremely boring to me, but I’d much rather talk about Thor’s actual adopted Jotun brother (or half brother, the texts doesn’t agree) from mythology, Tyr. nordic mythology culture Thor troll elves Scandinavia Just please show a little respect and don’t make comments like that on Nordic people’s works. So I can understand if people are tired of (Americanized) Nordic culture and I don’t expect you to like it. It’s all so ingrained in us most people don’t even realize it’s there. I don’t think there’s any Scandinavian kid who hasn’t been told by an adult during a thunderstorm “That’s just Thor riding his wagon across the sky”. Our weekdays, towns, streets, plants and landmarks are named after our old gods and folklore creatures, they’re still mentioned in proverbs, the tune we play at weddings comes from an old play about trolls and elves, and our mythology and folklore are still a big part of our childhood in the form of stories, cartoons, games and movies. I get more and more people commenting and tagging my drawings with things like “I’m sick of Norse folklore tbh” and “how about some other mythologies for a change” and I don’t think these people realize that Thor, trolls and elves are part of a large group of people’s culture. I know the Hollywood dream machine has been chewing up Nordic mythology, folklore and culture and spat it out at you all for a while now in the form of Lord of The Rings, Frozen, Marvel Thor, and so on, but I feel like people forget not everybody on the Internet are “Americans riding the hype train” or whatever. She is said to be a princess of hell, so she was palced in the order of princes. Lilith was added because even though she isn’t mentioned in either book, she has become part of the lore and is said to be married to both Asmodeus and Samael. Leonard and Nergal were added because it looked VERY empty with only one knight of hell, and according to Dictionnaire Infernal they’re knights of the order of the fly.
The demon hierarchy is mostly based on “The Lesser Key of Solomon” with a bit of “Dictionnaire Infernal” sprinkled throughout. I also added two extra angels at the bottom because I thought they were interesting and would be fun for people to look up on their own. However, in that hierarchy Metatron is just another seraphim despite most texts saying he is “king of angels” or “voice of god”, so he got his own place as King of Angels on the poster. I mainly based the angel hierarchy on “The Ruling Princes of The Nine Celestial Orders” because it’s the only hierarchy that give names to angels in all the orders. The Angel and Demon hierarchy poster is finally for sale here
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