{"id":22429,"date":"2013-09-27T14:53:35","date_gmt":"2013-09-27T20:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=22429"},"modified":"2016-05-08T16:33:29","modified_gmt":"2016-05-08T22:33:29","slug":"loki-gives-birth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=22429","title":{"rendered":"Loki Gives Birth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fall \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Harvest Moon<\/p>\n<p>In the Asgard myth a builder offers to build the walls and palaces of Asgard in three years if he can have the sun, the moon, and Freyja. \u00a0The gods tell him he can have one year and no help. He asks to have his horse help and Loki advises agreement. \u00a0The horse works very hard and the gods see, with three days left, that the man might finish in one year.<\/p>\n<p>(Thor &amp; Loki being adoptive brothers is an idea from comics, not myth)<\/p>\n<p>They panic and demand that Loki prevent him. \u00a0Loki turns himself into a mare and distracts the man&#8217;s horse by neighing until he comes to her. \u00a0Though he tried, the man did not succeed in catching his horse and flew into a rage. \u00a0The rage revealed him to be a giant. \u00a0Thor came back to Asgard and slew him.<\/p>\n<p>Some time later Loki gave birth to Sleipnir, Odin&#8217;s eight-legged mount.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fall \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Harvest Moon In the Asgard myth a builder offers to build the walls and palaces of Asgard in three years if &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=22429\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Loki Gives Birth<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[909,197],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-myth-and-story","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22429"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38897,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22429\/revisions\/38897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}