THE MJOLNIR IN THE NORDIC MYTHOLOGY
His name in Icelandic means "demoledor". It is the most formidable weapon of the panteón of the Nordic gods. His function was fundamentally the protection of Asgard (the Olimpo Nordic) and Midgard (the Earth) of his enemies and dangers that could loom them. Sometimes it has seen represented like a garrotte or an axe, but mayormente with his known form of hammer.
THE LEGEND OF HIS ORIGIN
Although they exist relatos with different elements, those that are common and basic of the history find in the following relate.
Loki, the stepbrother of Thor, cut (exist different versions regarding if it was by entertainment or by accident) the peel of Sif, the wife of the God of the Thunder. Thor Infuriated smashes into Loki and does him promise that it will do, of some form, that his wife recover his hair. Loki Resorts to some dwarves hacedores of magic objects known like the "children of Ivaldi", to reconstruct magically the peel of the, now calva, Sif.
One of the facets of the personality of the God of the Deception goes back notorious when, when feeling sure of his success, jacta in front of other dwarves (some brothers called Sindri and Brokk) and bets them (did not walk with chiquitas, this it is necessary to recognise it) his own head to that they would not be able to create objects more formidable that the gone out of the hands of the mythical "children of Ivaldi". The brothers dwarves accepted the challenge, since no him profesaban any simpatia to Loki.
It established then that both groups of dwarves would make three magic objects each one and that the judges would be, properly, Odin, Freyr (god of the agriculture the climate and the fertility) and Thor. Loki That neither was silly, feared to lose the bet and interfered transformed in fly during the fragua of the three objects that would present Sindri and Brokk. His attempt was to all the practical effects, totally invalid.
Arrived the day, Loki is the first in presenting in front of the judges the three magic articles. It begins delivering him to Odin launches it "Gungnir" that never failed and caused a violent shake in that in what it nailed . Afterwards, it delivers him to Freyr a magic ship, that always had wind in his sails without mattering to where directed and could fold until a so small size that could carry between the cloths of a man. Finally, it delivers him to Thor some braids of pure gold that, put in the head of his wife, would grow like a natural hair.
Afterwards it was the turn of the brothers Sindri and Brokk. In the first place they delivered to Odin a ring of gold that had the property to produce eight copies of if same each nine days. Although it does not seem a big give for the King of the gods, apparently possessed a strong symbolism regarding the fertility and the creation. Second they gave to Freyr a wild boar designated "Gullinbursti" whose fur was of gold, was able to fly and run more velozmente that any horse and would light always the place in which it found . And in last place deliver to Thor, the Mjolnir, which could demolish mountains and giants of an alone hit, besides could be launched and always would return to the hand of the one who had launched it without never fail a hit.
The Mjolnir is chosen like the best of all the obsequios. This fact does to escape quickly to Loki, the one who finally is captured by the desirous dwarves to receive his "prize". Arguing that: although his head belonged them did not have right to touch his neck, achieves to save his life. In spite of this, does not go out indemne since Sindri sews him the mouth "so that it do not go back to deceive to anybody with his tongue".
THE MJOLNIR LIKE SYMBOL
To weigh that it has arrived to our days under the image of a warrior, Thor was considered in the antiquity like a protective deity so much of gods as of humans.
The Nordics, says , were used to to do "the signal of the hammer" and apparently went of where the Christians took the example to "do the signal of the cross" or "persignarse".
Thor Was invoked for protection so much of objects as of people, by what the image of the Mjolnir was used to to chair baptisms, weddings, harvests. Also it resorted to he to obtain health or justice.
With the arrival of the Christianity, a small hammer used with a cord in the neck, was used by the Nordic villages like alternative to the Christian cross.
In numerous images of weddings, the Mjolnir appears on the lap of the girlfriend, like busqueda symbolic of the health and the fertility.
His cult was very popular between the peasants, those who planted the image of the hammer, esculpida or recorded, near of his homes or on the door of entrance, for protection of his families and harvests.
THE HAMMER OF MARVEL
His first apparition (obviously in hands of Thor) was in the comic number 83 of the title "Journey Into Mistery" of August of the year 1962, guionizado by Stan reads and drawn by Jack Kirby and Joe Sinnot.
The Dr. Donald Blake finds a wooden clave in a cave and, when striking it against a rock, he transforms in the powerful Thor and the clave in the Mjolnir. Although the object in question and his bearer are basically based in the Nordic myth, his incarnations "marvelianas" possess some elements that differentiate them of the originals.
The origin of the Mjolnir (recontado and retouched several times, as it corresponds to all character comiqueril) speech that Odin commissions his construction to the dwarves to win to his enemies. The magic artisans need of the heart of a star to forge the hammer. During his "birth" produces a gigantic explosion that almost destroys the Earth (and would be the cause of the extinction of the dinosaurs). It is fact of the magic metal designated "uru" which possesses a natural affinity with the magic.
Once that Odin finds worthy to his son Thor, by means of a series of proofs, makes an enchantment to the martilllo and delivers it to him, finally, to the God of the Thunder.
THE DELIGHTED HAMMER
"That that sustain the hammer, if it is worthy, will possess the power of Thor".
This is the enchantment launched by Odin on the hammer and the registration that finds in one of his sides. In spite of what resembles simple sight, this suggests no a separation of the god of his hammer but a much deeper bond. The powers of Thor are fundamentalemente the powers of the Mjolnir? It is the Mjolnir the container of the divine powers of Thor? This simple reasoning could suggest that without the Mjolnir, Thor is not Thor.
THOSE THAT WERE FOUND WORTHY
I confess that it thought that the list was much shorter, but no, so here they go some of which have raised the magic hammer.
• Bor (Grandfather of Thor)
• Tiwaz (Great-grandfather of Thor)
• Beta Ray Bill
• Steve Rogers (the Capi America, in the stage in that his identity was the one of "The Captain" to dry)
• Eric Masterson (Thunderstrike)
• Superman (in the crossover JLA/AVENGERS)
• Wonder Woman (In the crossover DC vs Marvel)
POWERS And MORE POWERS
The list of the skills of the hammer is impressive.
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• It is almost indestructible.
• It allows the flight of his possessor.
• It is able to open portals interdimensionales.
• It can summon and pipe the elements of the storm (ray, thunder, wind, rain).
• It can generate protective shields.
• It can pipe and launch divine "energy" from the own Thor.
• It can destroy mountains with an alone hit.
• It can control the electromagnetism.
• It absorbs, it contains and redirecciona all type of energies.
• It is able to detect illusions.
• It is able of some temporary manipulation.
• Always it returns to the hand from which was launched.
• It is able to project images.
• Etc.
ALMOST INDESTRUCTIBLE
The "almost" is the keyword here, since it has been destruído or damaged in several occasions. Between those that have this doubtful honour finds The Man Molecule, Destroyer, Bor and a such Perrikus. In one of these occasions in that this occurred, the hammer was restored by the good Dr. Strange the one who joined the by force vital hammer of Thor. We could say that the watershed between the god and his hammer is increasingly diffuse.
