This has been a bit of a dark and difficult holiday season for me (Huwila), and I apologize for the lack of original content. However, I have very high hopes for 2025. One thing that brought me great delight today was the arrival of a Secret Santa present. Every year, my husband and I, along with our friend group, exchange Secret Santa presents, and this year a dear friend gifted us An Early Meal: A Viking Age Cookbook & Culinary Odyssey by Daniel Serra and Hanna Turnberg. I snapped a few pictures of it in the waning light of the old year — would you guys like to see me make some recipes from it? (Not sure where to procure horse meat, but I can try! 😅)
Happy New Year, my dear friends.
- Huwila 🦉
Happy New Year, my dear friends.
- Huwila 🦉
Forwarded from Dan Davis Author
May the turning of the great sun wheel bring you abundant healthy cattle, heroic victory over your enemies, and blessed fruitful unions in the coming year.
Happy New Year, friends!
Happy New Year, friends!
The gifts keep coming! Canada Post finally ended their strike, and my late Yule present finally arrived in Florida. This handmade necklace, earrings, hand painted clay runes, and wire Mjölnir were made by my best friend Hrafna (featuring a sterling charm made by the lovely Spaewife of Ianthine) Hrafna’s lovely, unique jewelry is handmade by a folkish pagan with love, and would make a wonderful gift (fellas, Valentine’s Day is coming up!)
https://www.etsy.com/shop/wheatandsky
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Good morning and Happy New Year, everyone!! Today begins my restock and minor rebranding effort for my Early Spring 2025 collection 🥰 I can't wait to show everyone what I've got in store for you.
I would like to profusely thank each and every person who has helped me with my work over the last year. I am grateful for your engagement with my small business, and I am grateful for your smiling faces. From the bottom of my heart, thank you!
I am still on semi-hiatus, but expect to hear a bit more from me in a few weeks. 🩷🌸
Cheers!
-Hrafna
I would like to profusely thank each and every person who has helped me with my work over the last year. I am grateful for your engagement with my small business, and I am grateful for your smiling faces. From the bottom of my heart, thank you!
I am still on semi-hiatus, but expect to hear a bit more from me in a few weeks. 🩷🌸
Cheers!
-Hrafna
Forwarded from Æhtemen
These are the dates (and UK times) for the full moons in 2025. I don’t use the common Strawberry moon / Sturgeon moon names etc as these are derived from American Indian culture. Instead these names are derived from Anglo-Germanic sources.
Full Moon date and time
13 January (10.27pm) First moon, Winter moon
12 February (1.53pm) Sol moon, Horning
14 March (6.55am) Spring moon, Lent moon
13 April (1.22am) Easter moon, Grass moon
12 May (5.56pm) Milking moon, Pasture moon
11 June (8.44am) Sailing moon, Fallow moon
10 July (9.37pm) Hay moon, Summer moon
9 August (8.55am) Weed moon, Harvest moon
7 September (7.09pm) Holy moon, Wood moon
7 October (4.48am) Winter moon, Vintage moon
5 November (1.19pm) Blood moon, Blot moon
4 December (11.14pm) Yule moon
Full Moon date and time
13 January (10.27pm) First moon, Winter moon
12 February (1.53pm) Sol moon, Horning
14 March (6.55am) Spring moon, Lent moon
13 April (1.22am) Easter moon, Grass moon
12 May (5.56pm) Milking moon, Pasture moon
11 June (8.44am) Sailing moon, Fallow moon
10 July (9.37pm) Hay moon, Summer moon
9 August (8.55am) Weed moon, Harvest moon
7 September (7.09pm) Holy moon, Wood moon
7 October (4.48am) Winter moon, Vintage moon
5 November (1.19pm) Blood moon, Blot moon
4 December (11.14pm) Yule moon
Forwarded from ᛉ Sagnamaðr Stark ᛉ
An interesting new find from Kalundborg, Denmark; a bronze pendant with three entwined faces, likely Vili, Vé and Odin.
Forwarded from The Esoteric Muse 💃ᛉ
Now offering in limited quantities Axe Pendants and a variety of hand crafted copper wire jewelry.
Can be seen on Etsy in my jewelry section
Here
Can be seen on Etsy in my jewelry section
Here
Forwarded from The Norrœna Society
The Aurr and Blót
We have made quite an interesting discovery revolving around what could be a sacred ceremonial practice. In looking at our lore there seems to be a substance that our ancestors held to be extremely sacred, so much that many entities in the lore are named after it. This is the Aurr, which means “clay,” “mud,” “gravel,” or “loam.” It is a primordial substance that has its origin in our creation myth, and develops from the rime (hrimr) that poured into Ginnungagap. The interesting thing is that the names themselves seem to play out the story, as I will demonstrate.
After the rime creates the first world, Audhumla licks the primal ice of creation, which is so saturated with fertile power a God grew out of the ice just by her licking. This rime then fills her with this creative force and she thus becomes the AURochs (Aurr-Ox). After this, Ymir drinks from her milk and he becomes so filled with the creative force that he sweats beings from his body. The three brothers Odin, Hoenir, and Lodur then kill Ymir and from his flesh make the soil of the land. This was the first soil and was saturated with Audhumla’s milk, thus making it fertile. Ymir is then called AURgelmir (Aurr-roarer). The land in the Underworld first created and fertilized using his flesh is called AURvangr or AURvangaland (Fields of the Aurr, or Land of the Fields of Aurr).
Hoenir, as a God of fertility who helps in the delivery of children through the Manna Mjotudr (Yggdrasil’s Fruits), rules over this land and is thus called AURkonung (Aurr-King).
Then, we see the Norns pour a substance upon Yggdrasil which is called Hvita Aurr or “White Aurr.” We are told in the Prose Edda that “these Norns who dwell by the Well of Urdr take water of the well every day, and with it that clay (Aurr) which lies about the well, and sprinkle it over the Ash, to the end that its limbs shall not wither nor rot; for that water is so holy that all things which come there into the well become as white as the film which lies within the egg-shell.” (Gylfaginning 16) This is then related to Völuspá 19, which states: “An ash I know, | Yggdrasil its name,
With white Aurr (Hvíta Aurr) | is the great tree wet; Thence come the dews | that fall in the dales,
Green by Urth's well | does it ever grow.“ This tells us that the substance, especially when mixed with Urd’s mead, is incredibly sacred and important. Once the tree becomes doused with the liquid, it’s change of color makes it radiant, and by the above example, possibly explaining it as invisible. Because of this it is called AURglasir (Aurr-Resplendent). In Volundarkvida Sinmara is called Eir Aurglasir, the Eir (Healer) of the tree. This either makes her identical to Urd or gives her a duty that is the same.
Now, if this substance of Aurr originated as Audhumla’s milk and the Hrimr within it, it justifies milk
as a sacred element within the rite. We know that there are Indo-European elements that are shared here, as well as the notion of the sacred cow.
One of the more difficult names to
understand in this is that of AURboda, whose name means “Aurr-offerer.” She is identical to Gullveig, but this name may refer to her when she lived among the Goddesses and brought fertility, as we see her do in Volsungasaga ch. 2. Here she is called “The Daughter of Hrimnir,” whom we know is Gullveig-Heid-Aurboda. What we see here is that the chaotic element of the rime (hrimr) stays alive through her and her father (Hrimnir). When the Gods burn her and Loki eats her heart it is called ursvöl or “primeval cold.” This element is what would allow her to regenerate and may be the same element the Gods use with Saehrimnir the regenerating boar whose name means “Sea-Rime.” Hvergelmir, the Underworld well also has the name Svalkaldur Sær, which means “Cool-Cold Sea.” The sval- being identical to the -svöl in ursvöl and the Sær being the same as in Sæhrimnir.
We have made quite an interesting discovery revolving around what could be a sacred ceremonial practice. In looking at our lore there seems to be a substance that our ancestors held to be extremely sacred, so much that many entities in the lore are named after it. This is the Aurr, which means “clay,” “mud,” “gravel,” or “loam.” It is a primordial substance that has its origin in our creation myth, and develops from the rime (hrimr) that poured into Ginnungagap. The interesting thing is that the names themselves seem to play out the story, as I will demonstrate.
After the rime creates the first world, Audhumla licks the primal ice of creation, which is so saturated with fertile power a God grew out of the ice just by her licking. This rime then fills her with this creative force and she thus becomes the AURochs (Aurr-Ox). After this, Ymir drinks from her milk and he becomes so filled with the creative force that he sweats beings from his body. The three brothers Odin, Hoenir, and Lodur then kill Ymir and from his flesh make the soil of the land. This was the first soil and was saturated with Audhumla’s milk, thus making it fertile. Ymir is then called AURgelmir (Aurr-roarer). The land in the Underworld first created and fertilized using his flesh is called AURvangr or AURvangaland (Fields of the Aurr, or Land of the Fields of Aurr).
Hoenir, as a God of fertility who helps in the delivery of children through the Manna Mjotudr (Yggdrasil’s Fruits), rules over this land and is thus called AURkonung (Aurr-King).
Then, we see the Norns pour a substance upon Yggdrasil which is called Hvita Aurr or “White Aurr.” We are told in the Prose Edda that “these Norns who dwell by the Well of Urdr take water of the well every day, and with it that clay (Aurr) which lies about the well, and sprinkle it over the Ash, to the end that its limbs shall not wither nor rot; for that water is so holy that all things which come there into the well become as white as the film which lies within the egg-shell.” (Gylfaginning 16) This is then related to Völuspá 19, which states: “An ash I know, | Yggdrasil its name,
With white Aurr (Hvíta Aurr) | is the great tree wet; Thence come the dews | that fall in the dales,
Green by Urth's well | does it ever grow.“ This tells us that the substance, especially when mixed with Urd’s mead, is incredibly sacred and important. Once the tree becomes doused with the liquid, it’s change of color makes it radiant, and by the above example, possibly explaining it as invisible. Because of this it is called AURglasir (Aurr-Resplendent). In Volundarkvida Sinmara is called Eir Aurglasir, the Eir (Healer) of the tree. This either makes her identical to Urd or gives her a duty that is the same.
Now, if this substance of Aurr originated as Audhumla’s milk and the Hrimr within it, it justifies milk
as a sacred element within the rite. We know that there are Indo-European elements that are shared here, as well as the notion of the sacred cow.
One of the more difficult names to
understand in this is that of AURboda, whose name means “Aurr-offerer.” She is identical to Gullveig, but this name may refer to her when she lived among the Goddesses and brought fertility, as we see her do in Volsungasaga ch. 2. Here she is called “The Daughter of Hrimnir,” whom we know is Gullveig-Heid-Aurboda. What we see here is that the chaotic element of the rime (hrimr) stays alive through her and her father (Hrimnir). When the Gods burn her and Loki eats her heart it is called ursvöl or “primeval cold.” This element is what would allow her to regenerate and may be the same element the Gods use with Saehrimnir the regenerating boar whose name means “Sea-Rime.” Hvergelmir, the Underworld well also has the name Svalkaldur Sær, which means “Cool-Cold Sea.” The sval- being identical to the -svöl in ursvöl and the Sær being the same as in Sæhrimnir.
Forwarded from Hyperborean Radio (Uncensored)
January by John Leighton
🌲Hyperborean Radio (Untethered)🍄
🌲Hyperborean Radio (Untethered)🍄
Good evening!
Huwila and I (Hrafna) have been hanging out tonight and decided we are long overdue for a livestream! To liven it up in here, we're going to review bad (and silly) """Pagan""" and ✨witchy✨ magical items! We've compiled a short list of different items to discuss, and we will see you Friday, 10th January, at 7MST | 9EST 😉😁
Cheers,
Hrafna <3
Huwila and I (Hrafna) have been hanging out tonight and decided we are long overdue for a livestream! To liven it up in here, we're going to review bad (and silly) """Pagan""" and ✨witchy✨ magical items! We've compiled a short list of different items to discuss, and we will see you Friday, 10th January, at 7MST | 9EST 😉😁
Cheers,
Hrafna <3
Forwarded from EarthPorn
Crepuscular rays over Monongahela National Forest, West Virginia [OC][2000x1389] via /r/EarthPorn https://ift.tt/VWNZFHf