The Concept of Beauty and Ugliness and Good and Evil in Heathenry
I have a snippet of the last post that didn’t really fit in with the rest of the post, being its own subject. I looked at it and realized that I should probably expand the piece further, so I figured it belonged in a premium piece. This is the snippet in question:
“Medieval people put a lot of stock on good = beautiful and evil = ugly. So, when Loki’s children are born from Angrboda, they’re automatically considered evil because they are arguably terrifying/ugly. Hel has rotting flesh on half of her body, Fenrir is considered terrifying because he’s a gigantic wolf, and Jormandr is, of course, the world serpent.”
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