#norse gods
Loki: It’s nice to be wanted, you know?
Thor: *exasperated* Not by the law!
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Æsir
Baldr
Bragi
Eir
Frigg
Heimdallr
Lofn
Máni
Nanna
Njörun
Oðin
Rán
Sigyn
Sól
Thor
Tyr
Üllr
VíðarrJötnar
Ægir
Jörð
Skaði
Rökkr
Hati and Sköll
Hel
Fenrir
Loki*This list is a work in progress and I will be creating more in my future free time!*
Feel free to message me requests, just know I won’t necessarily get to them immediately. Updated: 03/29/2020Reblogging this today for folks under quarantine as devotional ideas. Stay well!
Mjölnir (Thor’s hammer). 10th century silver pendant, discovered in Købelev, on the Danish island of Lolland.
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Here’s something I’m really excited about: I edited and republished a historical work! Search “Icelandic Wrestling: A Study on Brókartök Glíma: A Viking Martial Art” to find it on Amazon! You can also check out vinlandhema on Instagram if you’re interested in this sort of thing, all the techniques in this manual are detailed on that page (check out the Brókartök highlight).
Brókartök Glíma is a martial art and folkstyle of wrestling, part of the broader umbrella of Glíma brought to Iceland by its Viking settlers. Glima is an authentic viking martial art, still practiced today. Brókartök is the most well known aspect of Glíma, the pants grip variation of Glíma, where both players take and use a fixed grip on the pants throughout the match. There’s a few theories on why, and my afterword for this text explains every theory I’ve come across. Brókartök literally translates to pants-grip from Icelandic.
If you’re interested in Brókartök Glíma, learning more about this exciting and dynamic historical martial art, or just willing to support my work on HEMA (especially Viking HEMA), picking up this book would be a great way to do it. Even just liking and sharing to boost would help a lot !!!
Aye I’m now an author/ editor on Amazon thanks to KDP! If you’re interested in Nordic stuff or HEMA (historical European martial arts), I’m publishing thoroughly edited editions of old grimoires and HEMA manuals!
If you’d like to support my work, purchasing from my Amazon page is a great way to do it, and if you’d be willing to support me by boosting this post, you’d have my eternal gratitude!
I’ll also do a giveaway soon of some copies of “Icelandic Wrestling” by Johannes Josefsson, and my folkloric compilation work “the Braucherei Grimoire”, so stay tuned for that and you might get a copy!!
As promised, here is a compilation of the lightning storms I was treated to tonight ^_^
Thank you, Zeus and Thor for the show.
WARNING: FLASHING LIGHTS
Okay everyone this is important
I lived in Alaska until last week. I just moved to California.
My second night in my apartment, TWO large storm cells have come by and the lightning show has been AMAZING.
We RARELY got thunder storms in Alaska. We’d get a couple maybe every other summer.
So Zeus and Thor are really out here saying hello and welcome.
One-Eyed,bymspencerdraws (Matthew Spencer) on DeviantArt
From the artist: “A depiction of the Germanic diety [sic] Odin and his two Ravens as a stag.
It felt right.
Ink, Watercolor, Acrylic, “Gold” Leaf”
A night with the Guides and the joys of having a sister who doesn’t mind witchcraft
In layman’s terms, last night was wild. I share a room with my sister and the vibes have just been super off recently, and I decided I finally wanted to try smoke cleansing (I usually use sound cleansing for the energy in my room.) So I stole bay leaves from my kitchen (we don’t have sage) and my sister and I tried to burn them without nearly burning the house down.
Note:nearly. It’s April fool’s, I work with three trickster gods and quite literally the best friends trio of the Olympian gods. So you know shit was wild.
To start off, my sister and I were trying to light the bay leaves on fire inside this small candle since we didn’t have anywhere to burn it (I’m broom closeted and my sister is the only one who knows and is accepting of it.)
However we just couldn’t get it to stay on fire. And during one of our attempts, my sister dropped a lit match on our wooden floor and she and I lost it.
We blew it out and we were both shaking, not in fear, but at the fact we quite literally were the dumbest bitches alive and nearly burned our house down trying to light bay leaves.
Apollo and Dionysus were there watching us the entire time and were just laughing at our dumbassery. Hermes joined in soon after and the trio were watching us like we were some sitcom. Loki was there too, as he usually is when things nearly go horribly wrong.
Apparently it was part of their April Fool’s joke. Like, there was no burn mark on the floor at all and was no evidence of it happening. No soot, black spot, no nothing. A lit match was dropped on directly exposed wood and there wasn’t even an ember forming. Mind you, the fire on the match was like, big enough to reach halfway down the matchstick.
It was a disaster I swear.
Soon enough, we finally got the bay fire going and it was relaxing. The overall vibe was just really nice and warm, the lights were off and the room was lit up by two candles: one where the bay leaves were burning and another I have for Apollo.
And I decided that since he and the rest of the trio were here, I wanted to play some music. I played Yellow by Coldplay (I consider it to be a song that binds me to Apollo, since the first time I fully felt his presence as a whole was when I invited him to listen to this song with me) as well as some Big Time Rush (I read somewhere he liked BTR so I asked him if he wanted me to play it and his little candle was just going wild so I did.)
Cute anecdote: The fire of Apollo’s candle would flicker in beat to the songs and I thought that was the cutest thing (especially to Boyfriend.)
I sang along to some of the songs and it would flicker as if singing with me. It also happened when I played the Phantom Of The Opera theme for Dionysus, who used the candle we were burning the bay leaves in as his temporary candle. It was really cute.
It was also the first time my sister fully acknowledged the presence of my gods. Both of us are some form of clairvoyant (both of us are very sensitive to energy and in turn, we can see visuals in our head brought about by the energy as if pinpointing certain things like where my deities were sitting in the room; if that makes sense? It’s a bit difficult to explain and put into words and I’m not sure if anyone experiences the same thing, but I initially thought I was crazy until my sister pointed them out too. Then we sorta like, tested each other on it and it worked so far.)
She experienced sitting next to Hermes, feeling his energy directly, she saw Freyja, Lucifer, Apollo, and even felt Aphrodite hold her hand. She told me she’s never experienced something like this before, and I told her that stuff like this just happens at times.
A lot of other wild shenanigans happened last night. Like my sister meeting my deities and guides, feeling their presence, and even witnessing me getting pranked for April Fool’s.
Womenly things; it’s my red week and apparently it was the perfect opportunity for a prank, so some of my gods thought it would be funny to not tell me that I started bleeding through. Loki and Hermes fucking lost it and I was just dying last night. Freyja and Aphrodite were trying to get me to change, etc. Wild night.
I was even visited by an unexpected newcomer in the form of Zeus, who I hadn’t made contact with properly at all. I was doing shadow work earlier on that day with Apollo and apparently Zeus was listening in, I asked Apollo to make sure after witnessing the tree outside my window going batshit crazy because of the wind.
And apparently he wants to work with me too, as I clarified with him earlier today.
Overall, last night was just so positive and warm. I experienced so many surreal encounters with my gods and guides, who were all present with me. Heck, even Asmodeus made an appearance, and I barely interact with him.
I witnessed a lot of stuff too, like Eros and Psyche being lovey dovey, Lucifer being standoffish when I mentioned possibly working with Hades, and even Loki just being outright weird. Ares even went dad mode when he went downstairs with me so I could change since he knew I’m like, a major coward and that I’d be too scared to go alone.
Heck, my sister and I finally got around to locking our numerous mirrors. I showed her how to do it, and I wanted to cry in being a proud sister while watching her figure out how to draw the sigil right.
Also, Apollo hugs and cuddles. Very nice.
I can’t forget what happened later that night though. Everything was going really well until I spotted Apollo’s candle flickering. It usually wasn’t an odd occurrence, but it was like it was trying to get my attention. Apollo’s presence and energy changed a bit, going from warm and amused to something a bit more protective. I then felt something coming from outside the door, like an odd energy. We just cleansed the room, so a lot of lingering entities/energies were kicked out and apparently it was one of them (according to Apollo anyway) and he told us not to go near the door or leave the room anymore.
I could feel a bit of tension coming from some of my gods and guides, such as Ares, Lucifer, and Freyja who were the closest to the door. Even Zeus’s energy seemed a bit tense. My intuition was telling me they were watching it in case something happens, so it began to worry me.
Apollo told me to sleep then, and I in turn asked him if I could put out the candles. However, after my inquiries, he told me that I really couldn’t. I was worried, seeing as it was a literal fire hazard, but I trusted him and the rest of my gods to keep me safe. I am not sure what it meant to keep the candles on or what would happen if I put it out then, but I let them stay on. I couldn’t sleep easily at first, seeing as I didn’t want my house to burn down, but after Apollo’s and Hermes’s coercion, I ended up falling asleep.
Another cute anecdote: holding hands with Apollo is my new favorite thing. Like, he’s such a dad, like I even call him Pater or Papa. He’s just really warm, both in personality and his energy. Hermes too. The two were just looking after me and calming me down so I could sleep already.
I felt safe, with all of my guides being there looking after me.
I woke up pretty abruptly a few hours after, the sun was rising and the energy of the room had changed. I put the candles out, seeing as the odd energy I felt outside the door a few hours prior was gone. I was still sleepy then, and I ended up falling asleep again directly after. I still felt Hermes’s and Apollo’s energy then, and it was just really surreal.
I really love my gods and guides. I really do. I’ve always known it, I know they know it, and now even my sister understands why I confide in them.
In conclusion; burning bay leaves with my guides on April Fool’s night is a totally fantastic and safe bonding experience. Well, if you don’t count dropping a lit match or dealing with a possible energy vampire. Would totally recommend, but be sure to have a fire extinguisher on hand just in case.
One with Nature (2020)
I sat down to work on the Hel prompt for #mythober and I had every intention of making her as fierce and downcast, and half blue (or half dead) as the author Snorri claimed she was or is, but here’s the deal, that’s not what happened. (And you can expect that if you try to focus on anything that belongs to Loki, things may go sideways rather quickly. That is the essence of chaos.) I am still hesitant to call this piece “Hel” but that truly was my intention when I started it. Death, in my opinion, is not the end, it is a transformation. It is an exchange from one form of energy to the next, a caterpillar into a butterfly, a tiny acorn into a massive oak tree. When I first intentionally sought out the Norse myths, I understood that the people who once followed, and are still drawn to follow these old gods are a people one or becoming one with nature. Their followers have no big cathedrals, no mega churches, they have no need. The forests, mountains, and the seas; nature is their church, always has been. There were and still are believed to be numerous places the spirits of the dead could end up, just as there are in life. I have interpreted Hel in my mind as a spiritual personification of the energy transformation that comes with death. In my mind, It’s her back that is the “dead“ half although it is very much alive in this piece. Her body is becoming a forest, her hair the rocks and he dress the river bed and snow. Hel is drawing part of you to herself, always to the mound and you can’t look away, you understand or will understand the eventuality of your life. Always moving forward, always transforming. Once on the other side of her you will understand that you can’t go back because you aren’t going that way, just as in life. This is just my interpretation, I’m still learning but have an enormous amount of respect for the followers of Norse paganism trying to piece everything back together. Skol!
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One with Nature (2020)
I sat down to work on the Hel prompt for #mythober and I had every intention of making her as fierce and downcast, and half blue (or half dead) as the author Snorri claimed she was or is, but here’s the deal, that’s not what happened. (And you can expect that if you try to focus on anything that belongs to Loki, things may go sideways rather quickly. That is the essence of chaos.) I am still hesitant to call this piece “Hel” but that truly was my intention when I started it. Death, in my opinion, is not the end, it is a transformation. It is an exchange from one form of energy to the next, a caterpillar into a butterfly, a tiny acorn into a massive oak tree. When I first intentionally sought out the Norse myths, I understood that the people who once followed, and are still drawn to follow these old gods are a people one or becoming one with nature. Their followers have no big cathedrals, no mega churches, they have no need. The forests, mountains, and the seas; nature is their church, always has been. There were and still are believed to be numerous places the spirits of the dead could end up, just as there are in life. I have interpreted Hel in my mind as a spiritual personification of the energy transformation that comes with death. In my mind, It’s her back that is the “dead“ half although it is very much alive in this piece. Her body is becoming a forest, her hair the rocks and he dress the river bed and snow. Hel is drawing part of you to herself, always to the mound and you can’t look away, you understand or will understand the eventuality of your life. Always moving forward, always transforming. Once on the other side of her you will understand that you can’t go back because you aren’t going that way, just as in life. This is just my interpretation, I’m still learning but have an enormous amount of respect for the followers of Norse paganism trying to piece everything back together. Skol!
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Forseti, the god of justice, is the son of Baldr & Nanna. Very little is well-known about this god, but we do know that both of his parents are dead, and that he sits in his hall (Glitnir) to resolve strife and conflict.
The Prose Edda says that “all who come to him with legal difficulties leave reconciled”.
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New print available in our shop! Hand-pulled screenprint with extremely long lasting eco-friendly inks, available in a variety of colours.
This print is a collaboration with the extremely talented @dyrs_hjarta_art and inspired by the Binding of Fenrir myth: you can see the huge wolf Fenrir right in the centre of the artwork, entangled by the smooth and supple fetter called Gleipnir, and gagged by a sword after he devoured the god Tyr’s hand. On the top the mask of the Allfather, Odin, and the six materials the dwarves required to forge the fetter from Svartalfheim: the sound a cat makes when it moves, the beard of a woman, the roots of a mountain, the sinew of a bear, the breath of a fish, and the spittle of a bird. You can see the gloomy faces of two of those dwarves on both sides of the print. On the bottom, the gods are fastening Gleipnir to the boulder Gjoll and the rock Thviti.
You can read more about it directly on https://limbsdisarm.etsy.com
The print is available on t-shirt, backpatch and tote bag. DM if you have any question!
When you Google the Norse god Thor and all you get are images of Chris Hemsworth.
i knew that this was going to happen sooner or later so i’m just going to rant here and let it all out. i know that the type of people i will be ranting about isn’t decent enough to understand no matter how much proof i show them so i’m not even going to waste my time on that. however, i’m tired of this.
i was on tiktok and there was a video of this guy talking about how a trend was disrespecting Hindu Gods. since he is a Hindu, he definitely has the right to talk about his feelings, etc. most people agreed, i did too, but of course there were negative comments too. non-Hindus were like ‘yeah but they might not know, it’s just a trend, just for fun’ see, if we make a trend about their God, we’d be lynched. and that’s not the only thing.
internet is a big place. you can learn shit ton of stuff from it. the fact that the most popular people didn’t know how they did mudras and namastes doesn’t make any sense, at least to me.
i read this rude comment, they were obviously defending the people on the video. i told them that it was rude, and that it wasn’t their place to talk. we then started arguing. they told me that i believed in marvel characters, loki, and shit once i refered how i worshipped multiple gods and got called ‘extremely religious’. now, i’m not even a follower of Loki, nor do i believe in marvel characters. they also said that Loki gave kids bone cancer up in the sky and i just–
i’m sorry but they were contradicting with themselves. now, i’m not even talking about christian witches, this is about my religion. what i believe in. and i don’t like it. how the fuck is it possible to blame shit on other people’s gods when you don’t even believe they exist in the first place. now, i don’t believe in the christian god and, when something bad happens to me, i don’t say “omg it’s probably the christian god who did this, not the ones i believe in” see that makes no fucking sense.
anyways, thank you for reading.
Aw poor loki, i know man, it’s so awkward when you fathers ravens tell him that his new pet is also his grandson.
It’s OK loki, we have all ben there.
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I normally I don’t give Odin red clothing but prefer gray,black,brown ore blue.
But this is when he was yunger and I like to think of him a lot more wilde and cocky. More like Loki and Thor.
After he gained the wisdom of the world’s he got more like the Odin we know and love today.
Ofcorse this is just a un serious comic about mythology, and not a “this is how it was”
Also:
I love to think of the Norns as sassy old know it all grandma’s
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I did 2 for loki bc i love Tom hiddleston and i can’t wait to watch loki on Disney+ if they decide to bring it to kenya one with & without his helmet, also i know he doesn’t have his scepter anymore but i just wanted to include them!!
