MythTickle by Justin Thompson for April 26, 2024

That has to be rough going through life with a watchful eye you all of the time.

Mythological CCTV………..

And don’t even get me started on the extramarital affairs….

Thor wouldn’t have spoken ill of his father, he Odin everything.

Ha! A slightly Different take on the saying, you’ve got your father’s eyes.

He’s only got the one good eye. No wonder Loki gets away with mischief if he’s got his eye on Thor

We love you Boody, you’re our family!

Odin’s got a thor eye?

“What family doesn’t have it’s little ups and downs?” Elanor of Aquitaine in ’The Loin In Winter.

Some hunter-gatherer cultures (aka ‘animistic’) believe that the spirit at death goes to the ‘ancestral-spirit’ place for a change from being in-corporated. They still keep an eye on and sometimes communicate with the physically living, and somewhere along the way jump in again for another “life”. Opinion seems to be divided over whether where they end up is random, or they deliberately choose their birth familly. Based on my experience and that of quite a few people I know I suspect that either it’s random, or ancestral spirits aren’t very good at judging what family to join! As a side thought, maybe there is something to the idea of “corporations” as “people”. But then again…..No, different meaning of the word.

Best commentary on the Gods I ever was was in the old movie “Erik The Viking”.

It portrayed the gods as a bunch of bickering 11 & 12 year olds.

BTW, Erik the Viking is a 1989 British comedy-fantasy film written and directed by Terry Jones of Monty Python fame. (It’s not a Python movie, but it does have that same sort of humor underlying it.)

As I remember my mythology, Mr. Thor there wasn’t exactly a guy you’d want to take home to meet the family…