Norse Gods - Blog Posts
Name: Astrid
Species: legacy
race: nordic, Australian
gender: female
Age: 15
Birthday: Nov 18
Zodiac: Scorpio ♏
sexuality: lesbian
Parents: graham and Thyra
Occupation: vile(formaily),thief,blacksmith
Personality: Astrid is a mean Yet kind girl with a love for electricity and money
Bio: Astrid is the only child of Graham and Thyra there like her parents she used to work for vile but left(faked her death) and became a thief as well as a blacksmith for making weapons especially electric ones she is always seen hanging around jame devineaux and Charlotte sandiego
two more of my legends of korra OCs
Cyra(20) nonbender
Tyra(31)Firebender
Cyra and Tyra are the two daughters of azulan and marie
They met Tyra In book 1
They met cyra in book 3
Tyra love interest: mystery woman in ba sing se
Cyra love interest: huan beifong
Like her cousin Yelena cyra helps run the tea shop her uncle left in ba sing se after he passed and to spy on her sister after hearing about her secret lover despite not being a bender or being able to use any elemental magic she is at skilled chi blocking and different forms of martial arts as well as any other fighting style there is old and new but if you must know she is definitely a daddy's girl even though azulan is sad she can't bender or use any element magic like her mother
Tyra is the first born daughter of azulan and Marie unlike her sister she was born a firebender but for some reason her fire turned white due to this she seemed to calm in even the worst situations which was really dangerous half the time but she learns to be more connect with her emotions after meeting a girl ba sing se when she was 15 which was the age she found out she was a lesbian but she keeps her relationship secret despite her family knowing she is a lesbian
My avatar the last airbender ocs
Hayami
Marie
Hayami: love interest: zuko
Marie love interest: azulan
Azulan is azula’s twin brother I don’t know who created him but credits to them
And azula is still in the asylum or missing
Hayami met them in book 2-3
Marie met them in book 1
Hayami is the daughter of a Korean goddess and a half water tribe and earth kingdom man hailed from ba sing se where she met iron and zuko
Marie is the daughter of a Nordic goddess and a half fire nation and air nomad man
Here are the Magnus chase next gen kids
TEAM 19
Anne(16)
Olaf(18)
Zian(19)
Natalie(15)
Deigo(14)
Summer(15)
Spring(17)
Rouge(20)
Team 19
Anne daughter of T.J. and Maria
Olaf daughter of Blitzen and hearth
Zian son of Samirah and Amir
Natalie daughter of Alex and Magnus
Deigo son of Alex and Magnus
Summer daughter of autumn and winter
Spring son of autumn and winter
Rouge son of Mallory and Halfborn
I had to do magnus chase too and autumn and summer are oc same with maria
A button poetry inspired by the Norse mythology comic by @yeehawpim
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When the Gods came to the Great wolf
Fenrir
He must have thought it just another day
Bright and grand
He must have thought it a game
These were the people who had raised him
And there was Tyr
his friend
They bind him He broke free
He must have rejoiced in his victory
Then the gods came again With different chains
Doubt would have taken hold But he must have ignored it
Bolstering his resolve in his strength thinking
He had nothing to fear
Since Tyr was there
But when the gods
Brought forth the cords
He must have sensed something amiss
This was no game
They wanted something from him
He must have recalled The fleeting hateful stares
But he also must have also remembered
How he played with Tyr
He would not let anything Happen to him
He must have cursed himself
For doubting his friend
For asking for Tyr's hand
But what is done is done he couldn’t go back
And now I sit and wonder
When the wolf couldn't break the cords
Did he pause?
Did Tyr know what would happen?
And offered his flesh regardless?
Or Maybe In guild for what was going to happen to his friend?
What he had caused?
There must have been A moment
When the great wolf pled
Hoping that he would be saved by his friend
Or maybe he wished for Tyr to pull back his hand?
And now I think
That when the wolf bit down
Maybe it wasn't from anger
Maybe it was from sorrow
His friend had made his choice
So maybe he bit
So the blood would hide his tears
Tyr was there
And he had betrayed him
No, but, like, what do they do then? Do the other pantheon gods claim them and send an apology note and be like "Lol, sorry. They took a wrong turn"!?!?!?!?!
Do any of you ever wonder if Camp Half-Blood accidentally brought in a demigod of a different pantheon before?
This would be especially hilarious if it happens sometime after The Last Olympian/Heroes of Olympus, where the gods are required to claim their kids quickly.
A whole day passes, and the new demigod needs to sleep in the Hermes Cabin and Percy is furious. Meanwhile, the Greek Gods are pointing at each other and shouting, contacting the most obscure of mini gods. Chaos erupts on Olympus as every deity in Greek Mythology is called upon and interrogated. Hermes hasn't run around so much in centuries.
Hecate sits in silence, fully aware of what's happening, but enjoying the show too much to intervene.
Devotional Acts to Death/Chthonic Deities
These are just suggestions. Adapt to your own personal needs.
Have a saving account!
Clean up graves
Read the history of your culture
Volunteer at hospices and end of life planning
Sign up for organ donation
Write a will/last testament
Create a memento mori
Trace ancestry (if possible)
Ancestor altars
Legacy Projects
Visiting Memoirs
Reading/writing poetry about death
Read books/articles on death and funeral traditions: - What happens to the body after death? By Maria Cohurt - Forensic Entomology: The Use of Insects in Death Investigations by Dr. Gail Anderson - ‘Death: a graveside companion’ by Joanna Ebenstein and Will Self - ‘Western attitudes to death from the Middle Ages to the present’ by Philippe Ariès - ‘A social history of dying’ by Allan Kellehear - ‘Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory’ by Caitlin Doughty - 'From Here to Eternity: Travelling the World to Find the Good Death’ by Caitlin Doughty - 'Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers’ by Mary Roach - 'Past Mortems: Life and Death Behind Mortuary’ by Carla Valentine - 'All That Remains: A Life in Death’ by Sue Black - 'Written In Bone: Hidden Stories in What We Leave Behind’ by Sue Black - 'Holding Space: On Loving, Dying, and Letting Go’ by Amy Wright Glenn - 'Being Mortal: Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the End’ by Atul Gawande - 'Traditions of Death and Burial’ by Dr Helen Frisby - 'The Adult Orphan Club: How I Learned to Grieve the Loss of My Parents’ by Flora Baker - 'Caring for the Dying: The Doula Approach to a Meaningful Death’ by Henry Fersko-Weiss
Video research: Demystifying Medical Aid in the Dying: Family Voices (part 1) Demystifying Medical Aid in the Dying: Family Voices (part 2) Why You Need to Plan Ahead for Death, with Alua Arthur
Are you Loki?
also heres a collection of bumper stickers i plan on putting all on the same car
MAKING NORSE HEATHEN ABRIEVIATIONS FOR MESSAGING AT 12:15AM.
isto = I Swear To Oden
istt = i Swear To Thor
omo = Oh My Oden
omt = Oh My Thor
(y'all know the saying ''burn in hell''? well did u know in Norse heathen hell is actually an ice land because Norse heathenism originated in the north, [imagine that.] so here's what i say)
Freeze in hell
omg im so smart :000
I'm reading Dr. Jackson Crawford's translation of the Poettic Eddas and I've found it great so far. His style of translation is very good at making the text accessible without stripping away the substance of the text.
He also made a fun translation of the Havamal into a cowboy that is so unnecessarily well done that it's funny.
Im trying to read the poetic edda so that i can actually understand the mythology im obsessed with but i have quickly realised that the translation im reading is udder garbage, it said that odin adopted loki which is not true theyre blood brothers not adopted father and son.
So does anyone know of any better translations?
Baldr, the norse god of light, depicted with the magic ring Draupnir on his arm.
This is actually one of my non-digital paintings, the original painting is acrylic on canvas board ^_^
Loki as a teen, playing Midgardian card games be like:
...This makes me wonder about the Avengers during Uno though
I'm late for this meme, but i don't care, tbh, I HAD to draw this.
(click on the image for a better image quality)
Thor Imagine
Imagine being the youngest Avenger and Thor finding out after years- much to your embarrassment, that you were Odinist (a modern way of worshipping the Norse Gods) before meeting him in Arizona when he fell from the sky...
And once he finds out, he takes you straight to Asgard for the royal visit of your mortal life...
Finally making that post about Loki
I hate how many people look at Loki (especially with a post-Marvel lens) and act like the Christian writers turned him from a generally heroic gender-fluid god into a Satan-esque villain. It’s like these people only read the parts of the myths that support this claim and then ignore every other myth that Loki is in.
First off with the gender-fluid stuff, he only turns into a female three or four times (one of them is theorized to be Loki but never outright confirmed). All of these times are a different race (Horse, Aesir, Jotun), and all situational. The horse is to lure away Svadilfari and stop the builder from finishing Asgard’s wall , the Aesir (never stated what race his is here) is to accompany Thor as his bridesmaid to make sure the plan works (and probably watch Thor be embarrassed by the dress he’s wearing) (Þrymskviða), another as the Aesir to learn about Baldur’s weakness to mistletoe, and the final one is to stop Baldur from coming back to life after Loki got him killed. I’m pretty sure Loki turns into a bird more often. Finally in the Lokasenna, he and Odin insult each other for doing unwomanly things, Odin doing magic and Loki giving birth to children (yes plural), and then Frigg (or Freyja) pretty much tells them to leave their skeletons in the closets.
Secondly, there is a post I’ve seen a couple times (and it is what inspired me to make this post) by @incorrectnorse-quotes where they got a message saying Loki is a faithful husband. The problem with this is that it forgets that Angrboda exists. Loki has had sex with three people that with children coming from them, and he claims a fourth. The three he has children from are; Svadilfari (Sleipnir), Angrboda (Fenrir, Hel(a), and Jormungandr), and his wife Sigyn (Vali and Narfi). He (and Odin at one point) claims to have had sex with Thor’s wife Sif. That claim is said by Loki during the Lokasenna, after Sif says he can’t say anything bad about her.
Finally while I agree that he isn’t the devil figure some make him out to be, he definitely isn’t what I would consider a good person (some people seem to think he is the nicest person in Asgard). For example, he once completely plucked out a woman’s (Sif’s) hair, for no given reason (an event which led to the creation of Mjolnir). Another example is the murder of Baldur (which we are probably missing some context to, but I’m working off the context we have), where he gets Baldur killed for “complaining about nightmares of his death.” My final example comes from the Lokasenna again, where the entire story is “Loki crashes a party, uses an old oath to stop from getting kicked out, insults almost everyone at the party (except Thor), admits to killing Baldur, then leaves.”
Also I’m not sure what version of the builder myth OSP was using, but in the version I'm familiar with the Aesir only agree to a deal with the builder (after shorting his time from three seasons to one) because of Loki’s advice, which is why they have him fix the problem.
All things considered, Loki seems to be Asgard’s resident asshole and occasional problem solver.
For a more in depth look I’d recommend this essay by Reddit user u/rockstarpirate, where he talks also about Norse gender views. (Warning it’s 21 pages)
I hate the “Ragnarök is a Post-Christian Myth” theory.
First off, it feels like most people see that Snorri Sturluson was Christian and immediately assume he did what the Irish monks did to Irish mythology. This completely ignores why he wrote the myths down, which was to establish a cultural connection between Iceland and Norway, in order to try and get Iceland to join the Kingdom of Norway (which failed). It also ignores that fact that he WASN’T A MONK. Outside of a part about the Aesir being Trojans and living in Asia (which makes no sense when looking at the rest of the Edda and the myths within), and some stuff about some great god who is more powerful than all of the Aesir and is never actually named, there isn’t much evidence to there being large post-Christian changes.
The second problem is that the theory focuses too much on Loki. He doesn’t do much during Ragnarök. He captains a ship (whatever that meant to the Norse) and he kills/dies to Heimdallr. Each of his kids from Angrboda does more. Fenrir eats Odin, and in some versions also the sun, moon, and stars. Jormungandr floods Midgard and poisons the sky, along with killing the strongest of the Aesir, Thor. Hel(a) brings an army of Draugr from her realm to fight Odin and Freya’s einherjar (Freya got half of those who died in battle). I agree that Ragnarök is a story of revenge, but its not Loki’s. ITS THE JOTNAR’S REVENGE. Revenge for a long list of insults and grievances that started with the killing of Ymir during the Voluspa by Odin and his brothers. Also, both Fenrir and Jormungandr are getting revenge against the gods they hate most, whom they are stated to kill. In the end Surtr, king of Muspelheim, kills Freyr, destroys Asgard, and burns all of the worlds (which since they are made of Ymir’s corpse, make this technically Ymir’s funeral pyre). Also the Jotnar on Loki’s ship aren’t his troops, they are led by a different Jotun, and it isn’t even his ship.
I could do an entire other post on the problems with how Loki gets viewed through modern lenses, and I’m tempted to.
Movie fanart of The Ritual, directed by David Bruckner
I discovered the movie while casually scrolling Netflix, and I'm in awe.
A norse runework starter pack!
Because runework is basically at the core of my craft, I use it all the time and I’m already more than familiar with it. Runework is super easy to incorporate into everyday life and it’s got a wide range of use so I truly recommend. It feels safe and reliable, and I don’t need to put a lot of time or focus on them. Now let’s get down to business to defeat the Huns.
Their story real quick:
So in His endless search for knowledge, Odin the Allfather hung Himself and was pierced by His own spear in order to be alone with Himself. He accepted no bread and no mead until He found the truth He’d been looking for. And He did: through the darkness of His own mind, Odin saw the runes and reached for them. It was told they were so powerful He could bring a man back from the dead using them.
The basics:
The runic alphabet, otherwise called Futhark. Because I’m a history nerd I try to use the “elder futhark” as much as possible, though there’s a new one going around that’s really popular too.
The more complicated stuff:
Vegvisir (you’ll often find it depicted inside a rune circle like the second pic, especially on jewelry and pendants): Vegvisir is first and foremost a compass, and its name translated from Icelandic quite literally means “that which shows the way”. Historians speculate that its shape might be derived from old sailing wayfinders in Scandinavia, thus its association with the compass. It’s supposed to guide one’s way through the storm, according to a line in the Huld manuscript. (x, y)
Aegishjalmur (Helm of Awe): Protection, protection, protection! That’s what it’s about. All of its branches are considered to be “guarding” the center, thus making it a major protection rune. Once you get the gist of it, it’s super easy to draw and useful. If you’re a fan of dragons like me, perhaps you know Fafnir’s invicibility was drawn from this rune, as stated in the Fáfnismál: The Helm of Awe | I wore before the sons of men | In defense of my treasure; | Amongst all, I alone was strong, | I thought to myself, | For I found no power a match for my own. (x, y)
Aight quick presentation for other complex runes:
Now; How do I use runes? Where do I put them?
Draw them anywhere and everywere. I wouldn’t recommend painting a ten-feet inguz on the closest police station but there’s still tons of places where runes can be useful. I draw them inside my wrists and close to pulse points, as way of “pumping” them into my system, so to speak. I write them down to focus my intent during rituals, choosing the one/s I need most atm. In a similar way, I envision them during meditation to clarify my intent. I also use them to decorate altars or devotional art. If you’re a norse pagan like me, maybe look up what runes your main deities are associated with! Quick rundown:
Odin is usually othala or ansuz
I often see Freyja associated with fehu, but that’s also the case for most of the Aesir
Tyr with teiwaz
Thor with thurisaz or uruz; etc…
What about bind runes?
By definition and according to historical speculation, bind runes are futhark runes which were merged into a single glyph (sometimes by carving them all on a single straight line, like oghams). They were super rare back in the viking age but they’ve become popular in the last few years.
People create them according to their needs. This aspect makes bind runes extremely versatile and personal because you can set really specific intents for them. They’re not exactly like sigils, though: when it comes to sigils, feeling and instinct usually guide people’s creation process. As for futhark bind runes, they’re made using existing glyphs from this specific alphabet. Here’s a bunch of bind runes that have been going around, just to give you guys a few ideas of what they can look like:
OKAYYY that’s all for me, time to sleep
I honestly see Moder as an incredibly graceful and beautiful creature. Not only is she incredibly elegant in design and actions, but also the way she kills is almost artistic in a way. She displays what she's done, and she does it several times in very similar ways. It reminds me of an artist proud of their work. She's super leisurely about it, too. I love the human like intelligence that comes with such vilont acts.
"The Ritual" (2017).
BTW I was inspired by this meme👇
so thank you unknown artist♥️
Photo Credit: “Eyes as Big as Dinner Plates” Photo series by Riitta Ikonen & Karolyn Hjorth
Jord
Fecund life Comes through me Covers my back and lines my Throat Holding me silent
Tell your tales On the long night ‘round bonfires Wild pagan gestures
Appease The demands of lessor gods Looking down from the great hall
Then press your feet into my ample back I am the Mother I will carry you.