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Welcome to July!

As some of you may or may not know, July is the month that many Lokeans dedicate specifically to Loki.  

For this reason, every July, I like to spend a bit of time each day either writing, meditating, or engaging in some form of devotional activity, and then dedicating those efforts to Loki.

This year, I will be using some writing prompts developed by fellow Lokean, Dagny created for each day in July.

For the 1st of July: I first discovered Loki when…

As I may have written before, I don’t know exactly when I first ‘discovered’ Loki for myself. What I do know is that my love of reading fairy tales, folk tales, and world mythology probably led me to read about Him at some point.

Perhaps it began when I read about Loki in D’Aulaire’s Norse Gods and Giants:

Or maybe my knowledge of His existence began even earlier than that when I discovered Him within the various stories found within The Children’s Library Collection, a 12-volume set of books that my father had read throughout his childhood in the 1940s.

I remember sitting in my grandfather’s leather easy chair, with this or that volume propped up on my lap, trying to work my way through a European folktale, and feeling delighted with the lively orange and black line illustrations of a clever fox who can run as fast as the wind if only one can hold unto his bushy tail with both hands, or that big helpful bear who carries a young girl on his back so that she may travel safely through a dark forest to reach the witch at the edge of the valley :

Either way, Loki became familiar to me as a short word that I was confident that I could read (and pronounce!) because it only had four letters — and I remember my Dad mentioning that the capital letter meant that it was a name.