On the full moon of Afterra-Géola I fained the mighty Géol Fader, Thunor and the heavenly queen Frig. Offerings of Beer, Wine,fruits, honey bread, tobacco and cannabis were given. Despite it being-30 l successfully completed the right and my offerings were accepted. Wes pu Hal Woden and the eternal Gods. 🌲

The Gylfaginning contains an important tenet of the Heathen worldview; the animistic belief that all things are ensouled.

Frigg receives oaths that Baldr won’t be harmed by “fire and water, iron and all kinds of metal, stones, the earth, trees, diseases, the animals, the birds, poison, snakes”, implying that all of these things had the sentience and agency to do so.

She believed mistletoe to be too young to swear an oath, and later on, “people and animals and the earth and the stones and trees and every metal” weep upon hearing of Baldr’s death.

Painting: Frigg takes an oath of all things by Mikhail Fiodorov.
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Good Yule to all. I had a rather late celebration because of time constraints. My equipment for worship has also been limited as a result of my recent move across the country. Just remember that you can worship and keep our Holy Tides with the bare minimum.
I gave three cans of beer and a scented candle this year for Yule.
Even if what you have is less than this the Gods accept all offerings with a pious heart with love.
May the Gods bless you all.

Hail to the Yule Father

The belief in Odin’s single eye likely originated in Proto-Indo European religion, similar beliefs appear in related religions. 
Shiva’s third eye represents esoteric insight, which Odin sacrificed His eye for, as well as fire, and one of Odin’s epithets is Báleygr; flaming eye.
The Baltic god Velinas was also described as a one-eyed, shape shifting trickster, and a keeper of the dead.
Painting by Nataša Ilinčić.
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A lovely Viking Age gripping beast pendant, found in Lincolnshire, 9-10th Century.

There are many theories as to what the gripping beast motif could depict. I have a theory of my own; it may have been a reflection of the animistic worldview, in which spirit moves through all things, and the lines between humans, animals and spirits, and our world and the otherworld, weren’t as rigid, and were permeable. The animal in the motif is both somewhat familiar and surrealistic, with the body impossibly twisted back on itself, and some eastern examples feature a bearded face. Four more animal heads appear on the frame.

It was likely an apotropaic charm; similarly to Thor’s hammer amulets, these have been found in varying degrees of quality, from simple cast bronze to highly detailed silver and gold, showing people from all backgrounds considered it important enough to have.

Photographer Ru Smith proposed that it depicts Loki bound. A tendril binds the figure’s limbs to the frame, and in the Gylfaginning, the Gods drilled holes in the stones they bound Loki to, which could account for the round frame. While an image of Loki on its own wouldn’t be an apotropaic charm, an image of Loki bound may have been, as a symbol of evil contained.
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Two of the heads have what look more like jaws than beaks; this may be a Frankish image of Freki and Geri and Huginn and Muninn. A very Odinic artifact. ᚨ

Frankish belt plate, 7th century, copper, a zoomorphic fylfot comprised of raptor heads. Photo by Matt Bunker at the collection of the National Archaeological museum, France.

The Åby petroglyphs in Sotenäs, Sweden. The ships are flanked by a sun cross and a spiral swastika; this may very well represent day and night, and more evidence for the swastika representing the cycles of the stars. ⴲ 卍

“And when they came north off Dumbshaf a man came over from the shore and entered service with them on the trip. He was named Rauðgrani. One-eyed was he. He had a blue-flecked, cowled cloak studded down to the middle of his legs. Jóstein the priest wasn't keen on him, for Rauðgrani spoke of heathendom and old lore with Gestr’s men, and said it best to worship by sacrifice for one's good luck. And one day when Rauðgrani was urging them to heathenism, the priest, all wrathful, suddenly grasped a crucifix and placed it on the head of Rauðgrani. He plunged overboard, but never came up afterwards. They realized then that he had been Óðinn. Gestr only regarded the priest coolly.”
~Bárðar saga Snæfellsáss

It’s interesting how several Sagas about the big bad king who converted everyone don’t outright deny the existence of the Gods.

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Another such example…

In the Saga of Olaf Tryggvason, Thor creates storms by blowing through his beard.
When Raud the Strong found himself outnumbered against Olaf’s ships, he called out to Thor; “‘raise thou against them thy beard's voice.’ Then went they out, and Thor blew hard into his beard, and raised his beard's voice. Immediately there came ill-weather against the king so strong, that he might not hold out at sea.”
The terms used for wind in the Saga are skeggrödd and skeggraust; beard-voice. The famous Eyrarland Thor statue is thought to depict Thor blowing through his beard.