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Bottled Offering for Freyja 💗

I wanted to add something to my altar that served as a sort of ‘permanent’ offering to Freyja, helping our relationship to grow. Inside are things that I find represent her nicely.

💕 Cinnamon ~ for strength and warmth

💕 Pink Salt ~ for love and purification

💕 Thyme ~ for magick and strength

💕 Mint ~ for sensuality and desire

💕 Rose Petals ~ for love, romance and sexuality

💕 Rose Quartz ~ as the ultimate love stone, they are perfect for her

I also burn frankincense for her, as it reminds me of her golden tears.

As I added each ingredient to the bottle, I told her why they reminded me of her. I then sealed the bottle with a kiss. Finally, with wax. I closed my circle and I felt her leave, but not without a warm embrace. 💗

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Horg

“þeir er hǫrg ok hof hátimbroðo” “Shrines and temples they timbered high” - Völuspá

A horg (Old Norse “hǫrgr”) is a sacrificial site or a form of altar in pre-Christian times in the Nordic countries and which roughly refers to a "stone pile".

In the poem Hyndluljóð, the goddess Frøya (Freyja) speaks favorably of Ottar (Óttar) for having worshiped her so faithfully by using a horg. Frøya details that the horg is constructed of a heap of stones and that Ottar often reddened these stones with sacrificial blood in dedication to her. Snorre Sturlason states that the horg is used in the veneration of the Åsynjene (female gods).

In the poem Vafþrúðnismál, it is also stated that many a horg and hov were dedicated to Njord (Njörðr).

A horg is considered different to a hov (from the Old Norse hof), commonly called a “temple”. A rough simplification is that horg were for outdoor rituals and hov for indoors worship.

Many modern day heathens within Scandinavia continue to use a stone set as a focal point for rituals conducted outdoors to this day.