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"The Norsemen believed that Loki's children would eventually kill the bravest of the Aesir, even Odin and Thor."

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"When he got to the beach, he transformed into a seal. Loki then swam to an island to hide the necklace. But Heimdall, the watchman of the Aesir, saw Loki and followed him."

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"The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat"

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Disobedience? Rebellion? Corruption by the serpent?

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"Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made"

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Perfection: "And they...were not ashamed"

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"But of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof, thou shalt surely die.

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Gen 2:9 Perfection with inherent corruption?

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Gen 2:9 Perfection with inherent corruption?

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"And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil"

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"And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed."

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Is mankind already corrupt or the does the serpent corrupt mankind?

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"Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of the earth, and every tree, in which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat."

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"And God blessed them"

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"God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him"
Man is in part divine

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creatures (good for eating) brought forth "abundantly"

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"And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep"

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"And God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good."
Conclusion of process; repetition of "good" and "light"

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From chaos to order and back again
regression

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The world begins in darkness, formless, in a void
My ideas--summarizing Gen 1:1-2

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emodiment of satan

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God creates an orderly, abundant, self-perpetuating paradise
rationally ordered
My ideas

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The serpent’s corruption of mankind in the Hebrew book of Genesis exemplifies the African Mythology A to Z definition of the trickster as a “symbol of transformation from the perfection of God to the imperfect flawed human.”