Mustard is associated with the norse god Tyr. Mustard is a fiery, solar, warlike plantspirit with extremely masculine characteristics.
Source: The Northern Shamanic Herbal by Raven Kaldera, Asphodel Press 2010
I originally put this in the tags, but I ended up rambling quite a bit and it felt like too much for the tags. I just wanted to share a bit about my feelings about the association of mustard with Tyr.
When I first started working with Tyr I had looked into what plants were associated with him and I remember not really feeling like the mustard association fit, but I still picked up some mustard seed to keep on my herb shelf. Though, for the first year or so I never touched it. But, over time it felt more and more fitting to Tyr. not because it's "warlike" or "extremely masculine," in fact it was those descriptors that originally made it hard for me to associate mustard with Tyr because the way he presented to me in my practice was never that way. His energy was always very masculine but it was the more quiet patient kind he always felt like a protector not an aggressor (not like the times I've interacted with Aries lol), but I've always had a hard time seeing Tyr as a "war god" and actually, there is very little evidence in any text or artifacts that he was ever treated as such. He's more of a god of victory not a god of war. To me, he's a god who is very concerned with karmic balance and therefore lends his victory to those with righteous cause who seek to restore that balance. He's a god of fairness and moral justice. And there's something to mustard seed, a seed that's so mundane yet so important. It's simple and complex. You must grind it down through patience and hard work. There is a give and a take to it, yet it's so quiet and unassuming. Mustard has a special fiery bite to it that's a bit unexpected and all of those things are what make it feel "right" for Tyr to me.
Hi Sophia, thank you for charing you wonderful knowledge. I more or less took the knowledge from books. Yes of course what does warlike mean? Your experiences answers all that. I am more an artist. I dont like the simplification of gods too. I think your feelings and thoughts are right.
What did war mean in the old times? It was probably some kind of test of spiritual luck and primal virtues. So Tyr was probably a god of War in a way that Victory in a battle between tribes was decided by past deeds, honor and Karmic laws. So I guess wargod doesn't necessarily mean to fight in a battle or direct the outcome of a battle. I think Tyr could be the god that was the rolemodel for honor and Integrity and because of that he probably had to be a god of war and victory for the tribes.
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