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However, unlike Prometheus, Loki has been almost universally seen as evil. His eventual freedom is said to presage the death of all the Gods. This link between Loki and Prometheus, which has only (relatively) recently been understood by a culture versed in both Greek and Norse myths, is evidenced in this work by the fact that Prometheus' theft is being counter-pointed by the image of the Watcher deity posed for burial. In some ways, then, this piece suggests that Loki's judgment on the gods is welcomed. There is actually some historical precedence for this. "Ragnarok may appear to be the termination of all things but the Voluspa makes it quite clear that Ragnarok is not the end but rather a cleansing." Prometheus is visually exalted and the Watcher seems somehow evil even in death. The church itself is filled with darkness and a sense of monstrosity. So one would say that the iconology of this work is well-versed in the maltheism of the romantic movement that took "fallen angel" figures like Prometheus and Lucifer (another rebel figure bound for eternity) and set them up as heroic.

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This piece obviously owes a great debt to the past, while attempting to treat the subjects in a new way. It is unlikely that any ancient -or even most artists from the romantic era in which many of this piece's central theses were penned-- would have looked on this piece and recognized the figures of Prometheus/Loki and Zeus/All-Father/Jehovah. However, in looking at these figures today, with knowledge of the intersection between these figures and their significance in subsequent philosophy and art, one can definitely recognize their presence. Unlike some surrealism or abstract art today, the piece is not founded on a purely personal mythology, but on a sort of universal archetype of the trickster fire deity and the death which he brings to the patriarchal pantheon and the father God. The iconography of the church tries to bring this ancient point home to structures which still exist today......

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