Yep,you heard right,I was just reading some old Thor,and it turns out that in a past life where Thor was Sigmund,he had his family taken away,and he and Odin(disguised as a mortal dad) went around killing the viking clan that took them,long story short,dad left,Thor was beaten,went to a house and found his long lost sister wed to a cruel abusive husband,and thus they fled(fair enough).
I first suspected something was up when his siter once called him her "Beloved",but dismissed it for then.however,when Thor dies in combat,it turns out his siter is pregnant with HIS child?
It also turns out,that this baby is a reincarnation of Thor yet again,making Thor his own
I was onna make a joke about how him moving to the south in Oklahoma now seemed appropriatte,but my geogrphy sucks and i don't know if Oklahoma is actually in the south.
A lot of past cultures and mythologies didn't have the stigma surrounding incest that we do today. In some courtly traditions, it was considered more ideal, so as to keep the bloodline "pure". So yeah, you'll encounter it all over the place if you search for it in older traditions.
Yes well, that was all standard fare a couple thousand years ago. Besides, I don't think Godly fluids carry diseases from such coupling. They have all evolved a bit from that behaviour. I mean, Thor in his younger days used to deal with any problem by killing it. He's learned to be more patient and give people a chance - for a couple of minutes anyway.
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Its based on a story from the Volsunga saga in Norse mythology which may or may not have taken insperation from Beowulf which is an older Saxon poem.
Sigmund was never Thor in that though, although he did encounter and later do battle with Odin in mortal disguise and yes he did have a child by his sister but she came to him in disguise at the time.
Their son was called Sinfjötli and actually died before Sigmund did and Odin himself ferried him to Valhalla.
So yes there were cases of incest in Norse Mythology which is a part of Norse culture.
Also in hindsight as far as I know. In Norse lore when a person was born it was believed to be a reincarnation of a person. So its actually not that far removed from Norse Lore.
I just dont like the idea of Thor being at the mercy of Odin. Thor doesnt have to take orders from Odin in Norse Lore, niether do any gods for that matter.
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Bro their supposed to be symbolic. Like dreams. You see wierd stuff in dreams but your dreams actually have meaning if you analyse the symbols in your dreams.
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These guys all get Norrøn mythology wrong, they don't know anything really.
Also, just because it happened in the comics doesn't necessarily mean it's directly linked to Norrøn mythology. The way Thor got his powers are all different i.e.
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May 31st, 2007 12:10 PM
They have all evolved a bit from that behaviour. I mean, Thor in his younger days used to deal with any problem by killing it. He's learned to be more patient and give people a chance - for a couple of minutes anyway. 
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, ix-nay on the oopid-stay.. IIRC Alfheim believes in all of this Nordic Pagan shizat (for loss of a better phrase).
