horse-form

Updated: May 17, 2025

But a certain myth of Loki in horse-form comes into memory, and makes me wonder how Mannhardt would have dealt with that too liberal narrative. Mr. W. A. Craigie supplies this note on Loki's analogy with Poseidon, as a horse, in the waves of corn:

Andrew Lang - Modern Mythology

But if cattle and lions had hands, and knew how to use them, like men, in painting and working, they would paint the forms of the gods and shape their bodies as their own bodies were constituted. Horses would create gods in horse-form, and cattle would make gods like bulls." Through insight of this kind, man may begin to doubt the existence of anything divine.

Rudolf Steiner - Christianity As Mystical Fact : And The Mysteries of Antiquity