Norse Mythology

its hackles rose

trick of the light

wax and wane

He said nothing: seldom do those who are silent make mistakes.

The woman is called Life, the man is called Life’s Yearning. Their descendants will populate the earth. It is not the end. There is no end. It is simply the end of the old times, Loki, and the beginning of the new times. Rebirth always follows death. You have failed.”

Balder will smile, like the sun coming out, and reach down, and he will move his first piece

They will talk of Fenrir, the wolf that ate the world, and of the Midgard serpent, and they will remember Loki, who was of the gods yet not of them, who saved the gods and who would have destroyed them

That is how the worlds will end, in ash and flood, in darkness and in ice. That is the final destiny of the gods

There is no end. It is simply the end of the old times, Loki, and the beginning of the new times. Rebirth always follows death. You have failed.”

Loki never forgets an insult