You’re right–it IS Baldur.
I told you people I didn’t have my Bullfinch’s here!
Modern day Druids organisations have the same reputations as Rotarians, Lions or Freemasons. But how do they get away with that? How can an organisation operate under the banner of a pagan cult known for monstrous cruelty and human sacrifice and still be seen as benevolent pillars of society? The Romans killed people for fun and amusement but it was Romans who were famously anti-Druid.
When women become Wiccans they lose a certain amount of social respectability but Wiccans and Druids have a lot in common. Look at it this way: if Hilary Clinton was known to be a Wiccan would she have been elected? But I bet a lot of Druids are unknowingly elected to political office.
I was never aware of this phenomenon. Maybe this explains why I don’t get asked to parties. Is it the same for females who are born to Wiccan parents? When they decide to become Wiccan, do they lose social respectablilty also since all their lives people have probably associated them with it anyway? Does the same hold true for men who become Wiccans? Or are they considered okay?
A lot of people without social respectability get invited to parties. But they probably promise not to spill chicken blood on the carpet.
Didn’t he get a half and half deal? Half his time in Hel, half in Asgard?
Violent? When he got hurt, weren't they playing their beloved game, "Throw-things-at-Baldur,he-can-take-it" ?That sounds like Persephone’s deal to me. IIRC, and I don’t have my Poetic or Prose Eddas with me at work, Baldu(e)r was slain and was not resurrected. His death was one of the precursors of Ragnarok. The gods were in fact playing their beloved game, bot Loki decided to trick blind Haldir, Baldur’s brother, into lobbing a mistletoe dart. Not a nice god.
Half and half was definitely Persephone’s deal.
As for Baldur, wasn’t he supposed to be resurrected if every living thing on earth would weep for him, and every living thing did, except for Loki in disguise or someone/something refusing to weep at Loki’s behest? Or am I getting this mixed up with another tale?
My vague recollection is that the gods discovered Loki’s “cheating”, sentenced him to be tortured (he breaks free on Ragnarok, as does the wolf), and resurrected Baldur anyway.
Am I misrecalling?
Yep, they bound Loki up until Ragnarok. Prometheus is currently sueing him for plagerism (Baldur and Christ, of course, have settled things out of court).