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[rivka]

Anyone up on their Norse mythology and willing to answer some questions for Alex? We read a story about Loki and Baldur, and she has questions I don't know the answers to.

Here are her questions:
If Baldur was the god of light, was it dark all the time after he was killed?
Why did Loki want to kill Baldur?
Why was Loki so mean?

Edited to add: If you want to have a try at some more of her questions that are stumping me this morning, here you go:

Why did the Romans want to have more money and power than other people?

and

Did Mr. McCain disagree with Jesus?

I swear to God I did nothing to elicit that last comparison.

Comments

[journeywoman.livejournal.com]

That's pretty interesting. I wonder what Mr. McCain's response would be, when presented with that reasoning.

For the Romans question, I generally explain that some people like to have more money and more stuff. Like how the boy sometimes wants more toys than he can actively play with, just so others can't have them. I'm sure the Romans dressed it up with prettier reasoning (like wanting to help the poor ignorant savages slavering beyond Hadrian's Wall) but I wouldn't be surprised if that was the base impulse, human nature being what it is.

[piqueen.livejournal.com]

I suppose that she's too young for the crusades and jihad etc?