Loki is the Norse God of trickery, mischief, and
change; a major character in Norse Mythology. Blood-
brother of Odin and traveling companion and friend of
Thor; his wife’s
name is Sigyn, his
children’s names are Hel, Fenris, Jormungandr, Vali, Narfi and Sleipnir. Loki is pleasing and handsome in appearance according to the Eddas. He is renown for his cleverness and for helping the Gods out after he has gotten them into trouble as well as his great ability to make them laugh and cheer them up.
He has domain over fire, and is a master magician, conjurer as well as shape-shifter (In some cases changing gender). Loki is
bisexual, having sexual relations with both male and female in mythology. Bearing in mind Loki’s dark side as well as his good
one, he is most valuable as a witty, entertaining friend, and a God to call upon.
Loki is not an evil malevolent being or the Norse version of Satan or some fallen angel. The later influence of
Christianity on Norse culture resulted in changing the mythology portraying Loki as evil incarnate. This is not uncommon,
Christianity often demonizes other religions gods.
Loki represents both our divine intelligence and also free
will whereby we can choose for good or ill, and if we make a
mistake to correct it. He typifies the human mind: on one hand clever, foolish, immature; on the other hand, he personifies the elevating, aspiring traits in human intelligence.
Loki is still worshiped today and one who worships or is dedicated to Loki as their primary God is called a Lokean. Compare to Odinist.
In pop culture:
Loki is a supervillian in Marvel comics.
Loki is a hero in Valhalla comic books.
Loki is a character on Mario and Luigi video games.
Loki is a character in the movie Domga
Loki is the spirit who inhabits the mask in the movie, “The Mask”.
Loki is a main character in the novel “American Gods”.
In Star Gate SG-1 Loki is a renegade Asgard who is responsible of many alien abductions in which he genetically experiments with human
DNA in order to try and solve his races genetic degradation that is caused by excessive cloning.
The dog
star, Sirius, is referred to as "Lokabrenna."
