On my laptop is a sticker that I purchased recently. It was an impulse buy, an added couple of dollars on my order of a print I decidedly had to possess. This sticker is about the size of my palm, and features a little girl in a bear costume roaring with all her tiny might. […]
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Trigger Warning: Loss of a Family Member It is a brisk, frosty morning here in my part of the world. As I sit here, sipping my coffee, the patterns of the very thin ice still clinging to the world catch my eye as they spin the light from the most welcome appearance of the sun […]
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Lýtir (Old Norse Lýtir) is considered a god in Norse mythology and Norse paganism. His name is either related to the Old Norse word hlutr, meaning “lot, share, foretell” or lýti meaning “blemish.” If the former meaning is assumed, then priests of Lytir would probably have been spámaðr or fortune-tellers. Supporting this etymology is a […]
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In Norse mythology, Kvasir (Old Norse: [ˈkwɑsez̠]) was a being born of the saliva of the Æsir and the Vanir, two groups of gods, when they performed the ancient peace ritual of spitting into a common vessel. He is not a major deity, however he is an important figure in the lore, in relation to […]
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Eir’s (“EYE-eer”) name means “help” or “mercy.” She is one of the handmaids of Frigga, and is also listed as one of the handmaids – or Valkyrjur – of Óðin. She is attested to in the Prose Edda, the Poetic Edda, and Svipdagsmal. Additionally, she is attested to in skaldic poetry, and runic inscriptions. She […]
Howdy fellow Heathens! Another beautiful Tyr’s day has found us yet again. Congrats on making to another one! So last week I started talking about wisdom and how that applies to our daily lives and even managed to (loosely) tie that to Tyr. This week lets start looking at how to become wiser. Last week […]
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In Norse mythology, Rán (Old Norse: [ˈrɒːn]) is a goddess and a personification of the sea. Rán and her husband Ægir, a jötunn who also personifies the sea, have nine daughters, who personify waves. The goddess is frequently associated with a net, which she uses to capture sea-goers. According to the prose introduction to a poem in the Poetic Edda and in Völsunga saga, Rán once loaned […]
Most of us have come to see Tyr as a god who stands for justice, law, doing the right thing. I am not about to say otherwise. First, how we experience the deities is highly personal and will manifest in as many ways as there are people experiencing them. Second, he is all those things […]
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In Norse mythology, Hœnir (also Hǿnir; modern Icelandic Hænir, modern Swedish Höne) is one of the Æsir. Heis a very shadowy god figure in Norse mythology, who joins the gods Loki and Odin on a couple of occasions in the old texts. He seems to have attributes of creation and prophecy, and his name might […]