#well. his name IS tor in modern scandinavia and many other places
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oh no the fun symbolism in that edit that just came out of my queue is not linguistically accurate :(
that's a T-rune not a TH-rune, so it doesn't matter than the L-rune is a T-rune with a missing piece. because his name is thor not tor :(
but! potentially you could still argue that a TH-rune (ᚦ) is two L-runes (ᛚ) put together, with one mirrored along the vertical axis... like so:
which could maybe mean something about... shadows? reflections? halves? loki as a defective version of thor, but thor's sense of identity inherently incorporating loki? loki being lonely and severed from thor? idk it's less obvious and therefore harder to interpret. but it IS linguistically accurate. whenever you need someone to make your symbolism worse and more contrived just give me a call 👍
#space viking tag#well. his name IS tor in modern scandinavia and many other places#but in english (language of the movies and comics) and old norse (language of the myths) it has a TH sound#so for the purpose of this i'm counting that as correct#meta#(ish)#ch: loki#ch: thor#r: loki + thor#th: mirrors + masks#s: myth + history
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