... decided to dive deeper into Norse mythology and chose Thor, the most popular of the gods, as my "person." Thor was the strongest of the Norse gods: they called him the god of thunder and sometimes hammer thrower. His primary role was to protect other gods from their enemies, the giants, who constantly attempted to destroy them. His most terrible enemy was the Midgard Serpent. It is interesting that the God of thunder had an appearance of a mature man: he was tall, muscular, red haired and bearded, with very intense eyes. He is often symbolically depicted with wide staring eyes, possibly a sign of His spiritual might. He possessed three very precious things. The first was a short-handled golden hammer, Mjollnir, which, when thrown at a target, always returned magically to the owner. With the hammer, Thor indulged in his favorite sport of killing giants. The hammer had the ...

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