Does anyone know more details of this myth - specifically the name? A person puts on a mask of a god or character. They wear it continually for a few years but upon taking it off they realise they have become that character - that they look just like they did with the mask on! It's to do with how our habits can shape us into the person we want to be. Any help would be wonderful. Thank you!!
2006-11-20 23:51:40 · 6 answers · asked by Airhead 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
It's nothing to do with Jim Carey in 'The Mask' - thanks for posting anyway guys!
2006-11-21 00:14:47 · update #1
I have a feeling it's a pervasive story.
I just saw "Onibaba"-- a Japanese film that retells an old Buddhist story along the same lines.
2006-11-24 13:07:45 · answer #1 · answered by -.- 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"The mask of Loki". A nordic myth
If a good man wore the mask, then wonderful (if mischevious) things happened. However, a bad man wearing the mask had evil powers.
Loki was the son of a giant, but lived in Asgard. It is difficult sometimes to tell whether he was on the side on the gods or not. Sometimes he helped Thor on his adventures, or got the gods out of trouble, but often he had caused the trouble!
However, sometimes Loki was bad, even wicked. Balder was the son of Odin, and was hansome and popular. But it was prophesied that Balder would be killed. So the gods asked everything not to kill Balder. All things made of metal, all stones, all animals and people, and every plant that grew in the ground agreed to spare him. The gods played games by throwing things at Balder, and nothing would hurt him. But Loki realised that there was one way that Balder could be killed. Mistletoe doesn't grew in the ground, it grows on other trees. So Loki made a dart from mistletoe. He gave it to blind Hoder, to throw at Balder, for fun, like the other gods. So Hoder did, and killed Balder without knowing it. The gods tried to raise Balder from the dead, by begging Hel to release him. Hel would only do this if every living creature wept for Balder. The whole of the world cried, except one giantess, who refused to. So Balder had to stay dead. It is suspected that this giantess was Loki in disguise.
Loki also had monstrous children, Fenrir the wolf, the World Serpent and Hel, queen of the dead.
2006-11-21 00:03:57 · answer #2 · answered by funkysuze 3 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Sounds a bit like Jim Carrey's film "The Mask." He sort of became possessed by Loki, the God of Mischief.
2006-11-20 23:55:19 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Sounds like the Hopi myths of the Kachina Dancers to me. Read the below website.
2006-11-21 06:23:26 · answer #4 · answered by celtic_majik_21 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Read the Book of Mormon. It was written by native Americans.
2016-05-22 05:38:44 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think that was a movie with Jim Carrey
2006-11-21 00:00:58 · answer #6 · answered by party_pam 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋