CREATED BY: SNAKEBITE CORTEZ & JOSHUA ORTEGA
MASTER MASK BY: DIGGER T. MESCH
MASK BY: GARY MONTALBANO
STORY BY: JOSHUA ORTEGA
PICS BY: RJ LAMENDOLA
Viking Storm
Thor was widely known to be the god of thunder.
But the god of lightning? There was none.
She was a goddess.
Her
name was Molniya, and she was born in the cold climes of the north, the
fatherless daughter of a weaver mother who was known for making bright
patterns in her weavework. Her mother, whose name has been lost to
history, said that the patterns were inspired "from above," and more
importantly, that her child was as well.
Considering Molniya's legacy, and the legends of her otherwordly powers, it's hard to argue with the legend.
There
has been much conjecture recently in academic circles that Thor's
hammer, often known as Mjolnir or Mjonler, was actually not a "literal"
hammer, but in fact, was the great love of Thor's life, a woman who was
the lightning to his thunder, the light to his sound, the bright to his
dark.
Molniya.
If
this is correct, then every tale of Thor must be interpreted even more
metaphorically than before. Not only must one glean the history from the
myth, but one must also realize that even within the myth, there are layers of metaphor.
Any
action taken by Thor and his hammer, any incredible feat performed
alone by his hammer, was likely the actions of his greatest lover,
Molniya, enscribed to history, at least for now, as a hammer, rather
than the goddess that she actually was…
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