Otherworldly Goods, Chapter 1 — Page 12
Tantalus has to get his money from somewhere, so why not the fine folks from Niflhel and Sheol?
True, the frost giants are originally from Jotunheim, but like everyone else, I’m conflating Niflhel, the world of the dead, with Niflheim, the world of ice in Norse Mythology.
And the figure of Azazel, depicted here in his goatish attributes, originally appears in a the Hebrew Bible as a scapegoat figure, but eventually became associated with demons, then depicted as a demon or a fallen angel. The Book of Enoch shows him as the one who taught humanity the arts of war and weapons-making, so he’s a real natural choice for one of Tantalus’s backers.



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