Loki’s Stave
pic by Nick Robles I‘ve read Dagulf Loptson’s book Playing With Fire: An Exploration of Loki Laufeyjarson and loved this: Loki’s Stave by Dagulf Loptson 1. Listen to the words of the closer, the blazing one, I who have borne witness to human evolution since man first claimed my power. 2. You have no cause to fear me, for I am already within you. I speak to you from the depths of your intellect, I call to you from your secret desires, I sleep within the blood in your veins. 3. My voice is in the crackle of the flame, and the laughter of the innocent, and the hiss of the serpent. 4. I am the bright companion of thunder, and I strike with inspiration. I am the spark of genius that drives you towards greatness; To abandon me is to embrace the darkness of ignorance. 5. I am an all-consuming pleasure that reddens your flesh with my embrace; I give you the color of gods so you’ll remember that you are divine. 6. I …