It may sound strange for me to refer to Loki as a god of heart and home, but give me a chance to explain this position. There is this cute little hand towel that I found at the store and brought home. It exactly describes my home. On it is an embroidered motto: This home is built on love and chaos. If you have seen two children in action, you know that they're chaos engines regardless of their age. I seem to have a weirdness magnet strapped to my butt that has a large enough range effect that weirdness happens to my husband too.
Loki has a lot of love to give. He is a deity who is often overlooked because of the bad press he's gotten. He is very devoted to his people. He will move the nine worlds to try to get us what is best for us. Now, his vision of what is in our best interests and our visions of what is in our best interests may differ, but that doesn't change the fact that he's trying his hardest to help us be our best selves. Loki's enormous heart has been wounded and he can empathize with us in our struggles in this world because of it. Parents who are bereft of their children are especially ones he has deep compassion for.
Going back to the home theme, Loki is a god who can make a home wherever he goes. Skrýmir's glove was like a house to him, Thor, and Thor's servants. Some paint this as a foolish mistake when they tell this tale. I think, however, Loki's inventiveness was such that he was able to make this enormous glove seem a comfortable place to rest. Perhaps it took a little magic and shenanigans, but would we be that surprised if it was the case to take an empty room and make it comfortable? Loki wasn't perfect in this, but the story would have turned out very differently if he was.
Is Loki Thokk in the tale of Baldur's death? Perhaps, and the ability to transform a cave into a cozy place of residence where Frigga felt comfortable entering and speaking with the occupant would be an important thing to note. Caves have a reputation of being dangerous, cold, damp, and generally unpleasant. Thokk's cave has more of an air like a hobbit's hole in the tale than that.
Loki is one of my family's patron deities. There's always been a bit of strangeness and charm about my little family. Our luck runs in strange directions that don't always make sense. If nothing, this itself is the reason why I can call him our god of heart and home.
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