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Interesting developments! The idea of how three-fold goddesses might have originated is unique.

One might have thought that other rulers would fear their kin. Loki would have been someone for Odin to worry about, but perhaps since Ragnarok was inevitable, he might have had less reason to care. Much earlier, the Aesir-Vanir conflict had been resolved.

The Egyptians, though, were also a pretty contentious group. Osiris had, after all, been killed by Set--and chopped up into little pieces. And Ra had Apep to worry about every single day. But I suppose those could have been outliers.

Anyway, keep up the good work. You are inspiring all the mythology-oriented among us.

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Thanks for the high praise, with regards to the Aesir-Vanir conflict, it is indeed mostly resolved by this time, and Loki has ever been someone slippery that Odin struggles to contain. But yeah Odin is indeed neck-deep in preparations for Ragnarok, and is keen to in this interpretation try to work some of the other Pantheons, who are not immune to it, so that they will perish also in it. But where he's seeking prepare, many of the others prefer to squabble.

As to the Egyptians, the Osiris conflict is currently taking place, even as Amun-Re struggles with Apep everyday, in this interpretation as you'll see the attack on Osiris is interconnected with the events of Amun-Re's story. I do believe I have it in some of my notes, but it is an outlying incident in this mythic tale.

With regards to the three-fold goddesses, this is one of my favourite parts in the myths I have constructed, and will be playing a large role with much of the ideas also inspired by Merlin 1998's novelizations and by Joseph Campbell's writing and other mythologists works on mythology, and divine feminine, along with Hercules Legendary Journeys' 5th season in particular.

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