As I write this, I am working my way through a migraine. Please forgive any misspellings or odd phrasing that happen as I write here.
Loki is a deity who isn't fixed to a single direction. Some people like to assign directional orientations to deities as they attempt to classify the universe and make sense of it. He's got the essence of Air with his wit and his obvious kenning Sky-Treader. He's got the essence of Fire by the way of his birth (Farbuti is a storm jotun and Laufey is an earth jotun associated with pine trees - lightning + pine forest = wild fire) and he's assumed the position of a fire deity within modern belief systems just about entirely across the board. He has the essence of Water through his invention of the net for fishing and his transformation into a fish. I'm sure there are more stories that are lost that talk about him changing into other water associated animals. He is a shape-shifter after all. Loki has the essence of Earth through his mother Laufey and through his binding beneath the earth. There are some stories that don't mention a binding but that his hall is a cavern with snakes present at a place where the land meets the ocean.
Now, if you're of the camp that says Earth is in the North and such, you're going to have a hard time finding a direction for Loki because he can fit into any of the four categories commonly used. And then there is that fifth direction, the vertical axis. He fits there too either as the Sky-Treader or the Bound-God. Loki defies definition because he is the essence of change and chaos. As soon as you think you have a handle on him, he changes and the entire paradigm shifts.
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