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Lady Sif 🌿

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Norse paths do have orthopraxy or "correct practice" For example; we dont use a Ankh for blessings instead of a Mjolnir hammer.

I wouldn't really call that a "orthopraxy," though. Using an Ankh for Norse things would be considered "bad manners" rather than "incorrect practice."

The mechanism behind "correct practice" is typically requirement. Norse blessings don't require the use of a Mjolnir—it's just neat. The use of things like a cord for handfasting or an ring for oathing are more indicative of customs than they are of doctrinal requirements.

Norse Heathenry doesn't have requirements because the Norse people didn't need to incorporate requirement in their religion. Requirements generally appear in religions because they help maintain cohesion and cooperation in the face of dysregulation.

The only time we saw requirements appear in Norse Heathenry was in circumstances where dysregulation was far more probable, such as with the vikings and certain initiatory mystery traditions.

The closest I think we get to orthodoxy is superstition, but superstitions aren't mandates, nor are they treated as such.

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"The Binding of Fenrir" by Tyler Miles Lockett

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Why does Ragnarok feel like something the Christians made up?

I mean, it does describe the end of the world. Though personally I'm not currently convinced that it was completely made up by Christians, because once you look past this superficial similarity, there's some pretty different ideology going on. Like, Ragnarok is about a distant yet inevitable collapse of order as a consequence actions and choices made in the past, which is in line with views about wyrd and orlog. And the notion of the gods dying is in line with Norse animistic views. It just doesn't feel unlikely to me that some Norse polytheists, who noticed that things always have a way of ending, figured that this would also apply to the whole cosmos.

Meanwhile, the end of the world described in Revelation is a very intentional affair, with every disaster being set in motion by God's command. Where Ragnarok describes a complete annihilation or uncreation of the world as the destructive forces of nature finally prevail against social order, Revelation describes a world that is deliberately torn down by the supreme arbiter of social order so that a new and better world can be established.

So like... yeah, on the surface these two narratives might look alike, but thematically they are extremely different, so I really have a hard time believing that Ragnarok was a Christian creation.

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Huginn & Muninn ✨️

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Thank you

A tribute to Hel that will eventually be a tattoo

(Yes it’s my art)

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A tribute to Hel that will eventually be a tattoo

(Yes it’s my art)

#norse paganism #norse folklore #tattoos #tattoo drawing #hel #the goddess hel #hel tattoo

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Good morning! This week's rune is Uruz!

Uruz is associated with strength, power, courage, determination, life force, health/healing, vitality, endurance, and manifestation. You have the strength and determination to seize opportunities and be successful. What are you seizing this week? This would also be good time to look at what you are manifesting. And you are manifesting. You are powerful. Part of the energy of Uruz is raw, even primal, power. Consider where your energy is going, where your power is going. This is key to what you're manifesting.

#runepull #runeart #runes #runedivination #divination #northerntraditionpagan #pagan #northerntradition #uruz #strength #courage #manifesting #power #runeoftheweek #runevideo #norsepagan #futhark #elderfuthark

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Loki in a nutshell

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Ditto

If anyone has any Norse pagan discords they’re in that are open communities that are antifascist anti racist etc please let me know :)

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i love when people randomly ask questions and i’ll just calmly respond with the answer they’re looking for, only to be met with “how did you know that?!” erm, witchcraft?

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Ack, I love Loki but please no. Either he doesn’t want much to do with me or he simply understands how deathly afraid I am of bugs.

had to set some boundaries about the resident bugs with loki

because well

40 moths in my bedroom is Simply Too Many

we are down to like 11 moths now plus a lacewing. i said 10 bugs at a time max, but he can invite 2-3 normal size spiders to help.

i also said that bugs can't be swarming me like that but i don't mind an occasional bug landing on me bc sometimes a fly will just land on me while i'm walking for a while and it makes me think of him and that's fine i quite enjoy it.

and no bugs on my bed or falling on me. and the consequence for those boundaries being broken is no offerings for a week.

and i really appreciate how quickly he listened to that 🧡

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Does anyone have any good links for a Havamal or the Prose Edda. My copy did a really stupid translation choice and I can’t understand it.

#norse paganism #norse folklore #prose edda #poetic edda #havamal

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Iceland

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Valhalla is not heaven, and other reasons fascists are dumb dumbs.

The utterly, bewildering, so funny it's depressing thing about neo n@z1s and blanc enthusiasts being so fucking quick to appropriate Norse iconography as a symbol of their "proud heritage" is that they consistently demonstrate a grasp on Norse Mythology as deep as the Marvel Cinematic Universe does. Not a dig on the MCU, but, let's just say creative liberties is an understatement when it comes to representing Norse Mythology.

The primary point of interest boils down basically to the concept of the "exhalted warrior death." As fascism is the ideology of hero worship, on a surface level, this makes sense. Old Norse Culture was one largely defined by conflict and vikinging as a trade.

Many Norse beliefs are shaped by, designed to inspire and exhalt the warrior who fights without fear. Their society in part relied on "the hero warrior."

Couple things though:

1. Not all Norsemen were vikings, and you REALLY aren't one.

You think the Norse belief system was so heavily lazer focused on a single profession in what needed to be an entire functioning community everyone that wasn't a viking was poopooed to damnation and/or a dishonorable life? No bitch. "Hel" in Norse mythology is just where the dead ARE. It's a very morally neutral place to be. Hel be vibin'. Odin, Freya, and possibly Njord were collecting souls for a very specific reason. That being . . .

2. The souls of warriors were being brought to Valhalla (among other places) to train for a final battle THEY WERE DESTINED TO LOSE.

Y'all fucking forgot about Ragnorok didn't you? The souls in Valhalla are being conscripted to a suicide mission. It's a place of honor to be chosen, but it's not a reward.

The training is apparently honestly a bitch in a half in it of itself supposedly. I guess you get god mead, though. Sit next to Odin at the big boy table, maybe. An afterlife of pain and awaiting doom for beer and for daddy to notice you.

That's the thing, though. Valhalla isn't supposed to be Heaven. It aligns with many other Norse Myths in that it exhalts to bravery in the face of certain annihilation. Valhalla as a function of beleif designed to psychologically break past the human instinct to prioritize self-preservation. The quality in which it exhalts is not the hero's death, but embracing doom. THAT'S WHY Odin chose warriors who died WITH WEAPON IN HAND, as in, they already faced one destruction, they can face another.

The army of Valhalla weren't even the only deaths of honor Odin recognized one could achieve. The Volva were all very much in Hel once they died, and they are all distinguished as Odin's special little future-seeing squad in the mythos too. And that's JUST Odin, ignoring the other gods who chose souls for their armies.

Norse mythology, ironically to the point of head-exploading farce, spits in the face of the concept of the Hero's Death as defined by fascism. "Dying for the cause" is a Christian/Abrahamic value that they are retroactively interjecting into Norse belief because historical self-insert fanfiction that is the Arian Mythos. There's no fucking point in training and fighting in Ragnorok, everyone is destined to fail, everyone knows it, and that's the fucking point.

The concept of Ragnorok and Valhalla was not even universal among the Norsemen. The inevitability of death and rebirth is just kind of a given as a natural truth in most pagan beliefs. Everyone you know and love is going to die, and then something else will come from the ashes. Literally "chill bro it be like that sometimes."

And if that's not enough to convince you fascists don't actually know shit about Norse mythology, I can tell you all about how fucking gay it is.

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🩸 oh hel.. I miss you.

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