baldr, n.Definitions

Baldr (n.) surprises ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠because his myth adds nothing: the scene is the hackneyed collective murder of all mythology, dressed as play.

Baldr (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the myth of a roundabout route to an ordinary lynching, taken by people who needed the old sacred text and could not bear what it showed.

Baldr (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the god nothing can hurt, whom the other gods pelt for sport: a lynching converted into a game by the sheer fact that it cannot succeed.