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“Medieval peasants couldn’t handle my Spotify playlist” but could YOU handle a medieval bard relaying the epic of Beowulf over the course of an hour? Humble yourself.

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Photographer Debbie Parker captured this lightning strike in West Virginia. - Author: sco-go

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I didn't post this earlier and I don't know why, but I gave a beautiful offering for Midsummer.

Everyone invoked was offered alcoholic lemonade; it seemed appropriate for a summer offering. I use The Longship's hearth cult framework in ritual, so I invoke Heimdall as a Gatekeeper god, and Frigg as a Hearthkeeper goddess. Odin was offered to, as He is the god I have the closest relationship with. Thor and Freyr were offered to to thank for the gifts of spring and summer.

In addition to the lemonade, Thor and Freyr were also offered the bounties of my area. I offered wild strawberry leaves and fruits, sprigs of mugwort and wood sorrel, and a bounty of wildflowers. Rose petals from my garden were strewn across the altar.

It was a beautiful, quiet little ritual. All that's left to do is bury the offerings.

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norse pagan prideposting

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Angraboda.

Beutiful and powerfull Völva of the Jötunn. Mother of the great wolf, the serpent and queen of bones wich she fosterd with the trickster Loki.

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motherwolf

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forgive or forget

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lovebite

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every forest is enchanted btw. stop being stupid and look with your eyes

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Just in case anyone was confused

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Hello! My name is Leikn, and I am a Norse seiðkona with 8 years of divinatory training. I have just launched my Etsy shop, where you can purchase rune readings, channelled messages from the Gods, Godspousal confirmations, and more! I use a blend of divinatory techniques depending on the spirit/deity I am communicating with. Oracle cards, runes, tarot cards, pendulums, osteomancy, and seiðr are a few of the tools I call upon. If you would like a reading from a spirit or deity not listed on my page, please contact me! I would love to work with you and your spirit team. Through the end of the month, you can get 15% off with code PRIDEMONTH

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When you are used to the no-nonsense, no-context approach of medieval Irish stories, trying to read Old Norse saga literature does feel kind of like you're being told a medieval story by Uncle Colm from Derry Girls.

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Eye-sear Sleipnir. I sat on this forever because I wanted to do it traditionally but putting together my art studio at the new house turned out to be a slog so I decided finished was better than perfect. Honestly this probably works better for the amount of color in it anyways.

I'll be ordering a nice giclee print of this one, let me know if you're interested and I can add some extras to the order. These are 9x12

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The bane of my existence—the notion that Loki is a "god of fire"—was apparently first proposed by Jacob Grimm.

I'm beginning to notice that if the things in Heathenry don't lead back to Blavatsky, then they lead back to the Grimm Brothers.

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The pre-Christian Norse spiritual worldview is animistic, which means that it's informed by direct experiences and observations of nature, interpreted through the lens of human experience and feelings. You know how we watch snow swirl around think that it looks playful, or watch a wildfire and think that it looks angry? It involves that kind of thing.

But when most people think of pre-Christian religions, they tend to imagine later forms of Greek and Roman polytheism. The problem here is that these Greeks and Romans had begun to think of divinity in more abstract, transcendent ways, and had begun to imagine the gods as rulers of things rather than the spirits of things.

Loki isn't the lord of mischief, he's the spirit of mischief. He's in the little voice telling you make that shitpost and to stop caring about being "cringe." He's in your cat's impulse to knock something off the counter to watch it bounce or roll. Loki manifests in every accidental innuendo and hilarious typo, in every spilled cup of coffee, and every paperwork mix-up. (This is why he's a shapeshifter! He can be anything!)

So when media depicts a Loki riddled with repression and shame - say, for example, a Loki who sneers at modern media or the culture of the common folk - it's depicting a Loki who can't really Loki. That poor spirit has been bound and gagged.

Certain popular media has depicted Thor and Loki as some kinds of opposites, but when we consider the animist perspective we can see there is a serious problem with this. Loki and Thor being depicted as companions isn't some random whim; it's a reflection of the reality that thunderstorms bring chaos.

A Loki informed by Norse mythology shouldn't be complaining about Thor's "oafishness" or whatever, he should be encouraging him to wreak even more havoc. Loki shouldn't be here out of some real or imagined obligation, he should be here because he expects he's going to have a pretty good time, and because he hopes to make the situation as ridiculous as possible.

Loki being the spirit of mischief is also why depicting him as hostile to humanity isn't really in the spirit of the pre-Christian Norse worldview. Mischief and chaos are not anti-human; they're just realities of the world that humans inhabit. I get how it's easy to infer that Loki must have something against humans due to his oppositional role toward the Aesir in the Ragnarok story, but that's an extremely Christian reading of the narrative. The story is simply describing the collapse of civilization and end of the world as we know it through Norse animistic comprehension. Loki only has an issue with the Aesir, who bound him in a cave to be tortured with serpent venom. Humanity is neither here nor there for him.

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Been thinking more about Beowulf, so heads up, I’m chucking these at you at full force