Arts & Culture
Review: Loki – The End of the World Tour
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The Norse gods break hearts, the world, and the fourth wall in this new rock ‘n roll musical. Bat Collazo reviews the show, which is playing at Chicago’s Lifeline Theatre until June 27.
Culture
Twilight of the Twentieth Century
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The Norse myths are laced with a melancholic focus on the end of an age. Karl Seigfried notes that today it also feels as though a way of living is passing. But just as Ragnarök leads to a rebirth, so too might our own times – if we are willing to work for it.
Culture
The Mighty Thor and the Failure of Masculinity
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There are plenty of options for pushing back on this culture of weak man-children using anger to puff themselves up. One of them is to turn to myths of mighty Thor.
Arts & Culture
Life Itself: George A. Romero’s Theology of the Living Dead
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The more of Romero’s films that I watched – and especially the more of his novel that I read – the more I also found a theology bubbling up through the blood that aligns with my own theology of Ásatrú, a modern religion that revives, reconstructs, and reimagines the ancient polytheism of Northern Europe.
Arts & Culture
New exhibit explores Viking Age women’s role as sorcerers and prophets
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A new exhibition at Denmark’s National Museum uses the figure of the völva, a female oracle and sorcerer, to explore how pre-Christian Scandinavians thought of time, religion, and destiny.