Godless Dave

Loki IMHBRO is a little different from Prometheus and Lucifer. Loki is different from the other gods - he can change form and is essentially hermaphroditic; he can both sire children and give birth to them - and they make fun of him for it. At the same time they need his skills of deceit to get their goals accomplished (usually sparring with various giants). His lack of reverence for the other gods at first is his strength and maybe helps curb their egotism, but in the end he takes it too far and brings about conflict.

Melkor

If you read the book of Job, it almost seems as if God is talking to himself when he has the dialogue with Satan as to whether or not Job's faith will protect him from turning on God when ill befalls him.

I've always thought it odd that nowhere in the Bible does it really refer to Satan as a separate, distinct entity until you get to Revelation.

VonEvilstein

Hence my use of "kind of like", and not "exactly like".

It was the Trickster reference that brought Loki (the mythological character) to mind, nothing more. He does play a pivotal roll in the End, though.

rubbercok3000

So maybe God is cleaning house with his own bipolar disorder problem.

-RRH-

Well, I'll try going a little more in-depth than my earlier, flippant response.


The self-identity of gods is much more confused than that of humans. For example, I have yet to meet a human who claimed to be three people, or a group of three people who claimed to be one.

Many people see the different Hindu gods as different manifestations of the same entity. People constantly try to equate the gods of different religions with each other on the most tenuous of connections. (Both Thor and Zeus cause lightning, therefore Thor = Zeus!)

And so, when you make a claim such as God = Satan, I need you to be more precise as to what you mean.