Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site decwrl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!ucbvax!decwrl!boyajian@akov68.DEC (JERRY BOYAJIAN) From: boyajian@akov68.DEC (JERRY BOYAJIAN) Newsgroups: net.comics Subject: re: Who will rule Asgard? Message-ID: <111@decwrl.UUCP> Date: Fri, 23-Aug-85 10:17:33 EDT Article-I.D.: decwrl.111 Posted: Fri Aug 23 10:17:33 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 24-Aug-85 23:55:19 EDT Sender: daemon@decwrl.UUCP Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation Lines: 39 I thought this may be of interest... *************************************************************************** From: XENON::BURROWS "Jim Burrows" 22-AUG-1985 09:20 To: AKOV68::BOYAJIAN,BURROWS Subj: Balder If you look into the Eddas you will find that their "history" of the Asa-gods doesn't end at Ragnarok. Some Aesir and Vanir survive, as do two humans who start the world over. There is a new pantheon of gods and guess who is the top god... Balder. [Jack Kirby must have known this. In "The Pact", he mentioned that New Genesis and Apokolips were descended from Balduur [sic] and a sorceress (Karnilla?) after the war that destroyed the Old Gods. --- jmb] Given that Simonson is pretty knowledgeable of his sources, the only real choices he has for rulers of Asgard are Balder who rules after Ragnarok, Thor who was the chief god before Odin (Before in our time-frame, people believed he was the chief god before they believed Odin was. Once they started to regard Odin as head man, he always had been.) and Tyr who also had been. Tyr, of course is the same person as Tiwaz, so Tiwaz is also possible. They really shouldn't coexist though. Of all of these, I agree that Balder is the most likely. [Net.comics readers note: Tyr & Tiwaz are the same in the original myths. In the Marvel pantheon, they are separate gods. --- jmb] Feel free to quote or post this. I seem to have gotten out of the habit of contributing to net.anything. JimB. *************************************************************************** --- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC, Acton-Nagog, MA) UUCP: {decvax|ihnp4|allegra|ucbvax|...}!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-akov68!boyajian ARPA: boyajian%akov68.DEC@DECWRL.ARPA