Well I heard most of the stories as a child, and they have this awesome atmosphere for me. I'm not great at story telling in English, but I'll do my best. You must have heard of Thor, I've always identified with him :D He's this cool, great warrior, big and strong, big appetite for food, drink and sex, hits first thinks later most of the time. Often he's presented in contrast with Loki, who's cunning and more brainy.
Anyway, so Thor's magical awesome hammer gets stolen one day by Thrym the King of Giants, and the giant said he'd give it back if he had Freyja (hot goddess) as his wife. The hammer was very important for the safety of Asgard, so it had to be returned to Thor, but Thor didn't want to give Freyja to the giant. So the plan was to make Thor come to the giant dressed as Freyja and take the hammer :D Thor said: fuck no, I'm not dressing as a woman, that is degrading, but eventually he got convinced. So Loki and Thor go to the giant, and at the wedding Thor eats and drinks copious amounts of food which make the giant go WTF. Thor almost gives himself away a couple of times, especially when the giant wants to kiss him lmao, it's a funny story. Anyway, eventually at the wedding the giant summons Mjolnir from its hiding place deep into the ground and Thor uses it to slaughter him and the other giants :D
No shit right?
Imagining eternity blows my mind. It's one thing to say like ok immortality, but eternity? Forever? When the world dies and the stars burn out?
Eternity is terrible when you think about it. Or maybe I'm just in a mood. Either way, what happens forever from now?
If there's karma, that's what all the bad gods deserve. Eternity.
Don't forget ECHO fell in love with Narcissus. But a spell was cast on Echo where she could only repeat words of others, so he thought she was mocking him. When Narcissus rejected her and broke her heart, she ran and hid in the mountains. And that's why we hear the echo in the mountains to this day.
My favorites were the stories of Persephone and Hades (he kidnapped her from her mother Demeter/Ceres, so this explains the seasons where the earth turns cold during Fall/Winter when she spends 6 months with her husband and returns during Spring/Summer). And Eurydice and Orpheus who tried to rescue her from the underworld.
I re-adapted the story of the Judgment of Paris and the three Goddesses to be a poem about the First Amendment and powers of government:
http://rookery9.aviary.com.s3.amazonaws.com/20037000/20037039_2b89.AVI
I guess you COULD say Constitutional principles are fast becoming a "myth" these days!