Honoring Thor

🌱devoted to the deities I honor and also folklore from around the world. 🪴 🪻see intro for more information info. 🌙⚡️ 🌷💀

[honoringthor]

intro

I'm a small town pagan, artist, history, folklore, mythology, and animal lover. My beliefs are eclectic and I don't devote myself to a single pantheon. Though I’m mostly drawn to Hel 💀 Thor⚡️Máni 🌙 Hermes 🪽 Dionysus 🍇 Set ⚡️ Nephthys 🩶 Marzanna 💀 Veles 🌳

I have an interest in witchcraft but I don't really practice at the moment, I’m also interested in folklore regardless of culture. Every once in a while I get obsessed with things.

🩵🌒This blog is an E-shrine to the deities I'm drawn to. Primarily Hel, Thor, Dionysus, Apollo, Eros, Veles, Set, Nephthys, and more. I’m learning more about Polish deities and I have an interest in Gentry.

Warning ‼️

I will post spiders and snakes some images may have flashing 📸 I’ll tag them.

🌱🌷🪻🪴🧿🌱💀🌷🪻🪴

I am NOT folkish,

HEATHENRY IS NOT CLOSED. There’s no historical basis for believing it is.

🩵💚🧡💛💘💗❤️‍🔥

🍄She/her

🕷️Adult living with bipolar 2

💚Aromantic

🌤️My sun sign is ♊ gemini or maybe Taurus ♉️ depending on sources

🌒My moon sign is ♒ aquarius

I have other blogs. (Keep wanting to make more)

@sayjoisme84 a general blog.

@artbyfemme sharing art and art history by women and enby people. 👩‍🎨👩🏻‍🎨👩🏼‍🎨👩🏽‍🎨👩🏾‍🎨👩🏿‍🎨👨🏻‍🎤

@sayjoart my art. 🎨

@art-of-daily-life genre art 🎨

🌙 @i-love-moon moon blog 🌙 🌕

🌸 @botanical-art-love plant art 🌱🪴

🐱 @artofanimalrescue Animal art, rescue, and my volunteering

@chautauqualocal Blog about the rural county in ny i live in.

🍇 @hermionapollonerosdiyonysos Devotional blog to Greek gods. 🐀

⚡️ @setnephthys Devotional blog to mostly Set and Nephthys 💀

Tag list.

#thor #þor #thordevotional #apollo #apollon #hermes #eros #tyr #set #sutkh #frigg #dionysus #dionysos #ancestorwork #twylethteg #tuathadedannan #faery #altarart #devotionalart #lesser known deities #genus loci #plant allies #flashing #spider #snake #death #veles #marzanna #slavicmythology #polishmythology #norsemythology # digitaloffering #frigga #odin #freyr #freyja #njordr #vanir #aesir #folklore

[fiery-kitty]

“Bosnian Legends: Murcia – The Plague Lady” – Alphonse Mucha (1899)

[underthetreeshade]

Gullveig/Heid: survived being speared and thrice burnt in the hall of Oden

In my first encounter with her she was described as an evil woman who came to spread distrust and greed and oden accidentally killed her when she thrust herself upon his spear thinking her magic would shield her.

My second encounter she was named daughter of Hrímnir a jötunn. ( hyndluljóð 32)

Some say she is Freya and some say she is Angerboda. I'm on the side that sees her as her own being.

There are also those who sees her as personification of the corrupting power of gold. And one can wonder if she was a villain or a victim.... perhaps both.

For a real conspiracy what if she did everything to get speared on oden's spear and burnt thrice to gain power ? Like Oden hanging in the tree to get the runes.

And I also just discovered that my physical book did not have the verse about her in völuspá like it just skip that verse completely (?) so yeah another proof why having more than one source and reference point is important.

[memories-of-ancients]

Axe head, Scandinavia, 11th-12th century

from The MET

[inatungulates]

European wild pig Sus scrofa scrofa

Observed by tsyld, CC BY-NC

[marenostrum-ac-dc]

Possibly over 2100 years old, this statue head of the goddess Hygeia is attributed to the Athenian sculptor Attalos, son of Lacharès. It is from a healing sanctuary dedicated to Asklepios, Hygeia's father, at Pheneos, Greece. The head is carved from marble with glass and agate eyes with bronze eyelashes. It measures 80 cm (31 1/2 in) in height. This artifact is now housed by the Archaeological Museum of Pheneos in Kalyvia, Greece.

[earthyday]

Distant Light by Andre Kleynhans

[frankiecorleone]

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[yorubaby]

do you have any books on spirit work that you like/would recommend? it's been part of my practice for a long time, but I've been thinking lately about re-evaluating my methods and rituals :)

- @calvinball-theology

I literally forgot I got this ask because I opened it while I was out and promptly forgot. My bad!

So! As of current I don't have any book recs for Spirit Work, tbh. I thought of doing some research, but I don't want to recommend something I've never read, yk?

All the Spirit Work I do I kind of learned along the way from trial and error, or is Spirit taught to me. So I've never thought to pick up a book about the methods of Spirit Work specifically, honestly.

However! I have a few friends who might have some good recs and I will tag them here.

@hellboundwitch @slewfootwitch @stagkingswife @windvexer @honeysuckle-hymns

If y'all have any good book recs on Spirit Work, pls drop them in the replies or even reblog. :"D

Sorry I couldn't be more helpful @calvinball-theology!

[stagkingswife]

Much like Rue I most of what I do was spirit taught, or I learn it as a small child from my mentor. But I was lucky enough to be able to study folklore and magical practices academically back in college, so even if it hasn't effected my practice a ton, I do have a standing bibliography. So some of my favorites include:

Ioan Myrddin Lewis. Ecstatic Religion. Routledge, 1971.

Kieckhefer, Richard, and Bayerische Staatsbibliothek. Forbidden Rites : A Necromancer’s Manual of the Fifteenth Century /. Stroud, Sutton, 1997.

Lecouteux, Claude. Demons and Spirits of the Land. Simon and Schuster, 17 July 2015.

---. The Tradition of Household Spirits. Simon and Schuster, 21 July 2013.

Morton, Lisa. Calling the Spirits : A History of Seances. London Reaktion Books, 2020.

Ostling, Michael, and Springerlink (Online Service. Fairies, Demons, and Nature Spirits : “Small Gods” at the Margins of Christendom. London, Palgrave Macmillan Uk, 2018.

Pratt, Christina. An Encyclopedia of Shamanism

. Vol 1 & 2. New York Rosen Publ. Group, 2007.

Tomlinson, Matt. Speaking with the Dead. punctum books, 2024.

Wilby, Emma. Cunning Folk and Familiar Spirits. Liverpool University Press, 2005.

I also have a treasure trove of journal articles. You can make a Jstor account for free and search for key terms like witchcraft, spirit medium, or mediumship and get some great stuff. I also recommend the ethnographer Jack Hunter. I was clearly not the right audience for his work, so I was super bored when I tried one of his books. He was speaking to a reader who was new to both spirit work and anthropological research - I heave experience with both - but his books would probably be a great jumping off point for someone else.

I also highly highly recommend researching your spirits domains. I read a lot of books about fungi, death, and funerary practices because 1) I'm into those subjects and 2) learning about them helps me understand Brona better. I read about historical hunting practices to understand Oisin. I've learned stone knapping to understand Flint, sailing for Pesse, etc. Researching for spirit work doesn't stop at books about spirit work techniques, or even books about types of spirits. Anything that helps you connect and relate to your spirits better is research for your spirit work. And I can't over state this enough. No amount of what I think of as "literature review" - the book research, the bibliography building - can replace the field research of actually doing spirit work. You can read a million books and articles, watch hours of videos, listen to months of podcasts. None of it really matters until you put the knowledge you gained into action. *A note of the word "shamanism." The academic field of anthropology has some gross history with this word. There are sadly some great resources out there that use the term as a catch all for "indigenous spiritual practice that involves spirit work, otherworldly travel, and spirit healing." Most often this catch all is only used in the title for categorization/SEO purposes and then an appropriate term from the culture being discussed is used in the actual body of the work. Anthropologist are doing better and leaving the gross history of the field behind, but nothing in academia is fixed quickly. Just an FYI.

[freyjuseggr]

Seiðr Sources Masterpost 2021

Here is an updated list of all of the books and papers I recommend for the study of seiðr

The Viking Way - Neil Price

Shamanism in Norse Myth and Magic - Clive Tolley

The Archeology of Seiðr: Circumpolar Traditions in Viking Pre-Christian Religion - Neil Price 

Old Norse Religion in Long Term Perspectives: Spinning Seiðr - Eldar Heide

A Biography of Seiðr-staffs - Leszek Gardela

Shamanism in the Old Norse Tradition: A Theory Between Ideological Camps - Stefanie v. Schnurbein

A Sourcebook of Seið - Stephen Flowers (there are a lot of problems with this guy but its just a collection of every mention of seiðr in the sagas and Eddas)

The Hunting of the Vétt: in Search of the Old Norse Shamanic Drum - Clive Tolley

Remnants of Seiðr: Charms and Incantations in the German Diasporas - Nóel Braucher

The Image of Seiðr in Old Icelandic Literature: Consistency or Variation- Lyonel D. Perabo

Seiðr & Shamans: Defining the Myth of Ritual Specialists in pre-Christian Scandinavia - Sebastian Klein

The Chicanery of Seiðr 

Out of the Waters Beneath the Tree - Catherine Heath

On Shamanic Traditions

SHAMAN An International Journal  for Shamanistic Research

ECSTATIC RELIGION A Study of Shamanism and Spirit Possession 

SHAMANISM Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy - Mircea Eliade

On Spirits

Spirits Through Respiratory Passages -Eldar Heide

The heroized dead. People, animals, and materiality in Scandinavian death rituals, AD 200-1000 - Kristina Jennbert

Vorðr and Gandr: Helping Spirits in Norse Magic - Clive Tolley

On Shapeshifting and Soul-parts

Shapeshifting in Old Norse-Icelandic Literature - Lyonel D. Perabo

Road to Hel- H R Ellis Davidson

Initiation Rituals in Old Norse Texts and their Relationship to Finno Karelian Bear Cult Rituals

Related Topics

ETHICAL WORLD CONCEPTION OF THE NORSE PEOPLE - ANDREW PETER FORS

The Religious Roles in pre-Christian Scandinavia

BALDR’S DRAUMAR (BALDUR’S DREAMS) 

Viking Worlds Things, Spaces and Movement

The Well and the Tree: World and Time in Early Germanic Culture - Paul C. Bauschatz 

[boop428-deactivated20260202]

“The battle frenzy came upon the Friend of the Raven. He was no more the gray-bearded husband of Frig, but Grim, the Masked One. The All-father, host of the Hall of Happiness, had donned a different aspect. Now he was Fire-eyed, the Evildoer, Blind, Double-blind. Out of decay arises growth; from destruction, rebirth; from fire, fertilization. The god bears more than one face, though he is one behind the masks.”

— Nicolai Tolystoy, The Coming of the King

[honoringthor]

Set

I got the impulse to sketch him, been working on this for 2 days with no plan.

I hope he likes it.

Anyone have any deity/ folklore suggestions for not closed deities/spirits?

[marshayame]

ferns (ig: marshayame)

[sweetd3lights]

  © All rights reserved   by Alexandre Bès

[portalibis]

Intaglio with Abraxas, 1st–3rd century CE, Roman Empire. BnF

It is a protective magical amulet showing a rooster-headed, snake-legged spirit and inscribed with sacred magical names for protection.

Telegram / Facebook / Sacred Ibis fb group

[honoringthor]

[artifacts-and-arthropods]

Zeugma Mars Statue from Turkey, c.250 CE: this statue of Mars, the Roman god of war, was found in the ruins of a city that was ransacked by the Sassanids

This bronze statue stands nearly 1.5 meters (5 feet) tall. The eyes are highlighted by gold and silver inlay, which gives the figure's face a strikingly intense expression.

According to this article:

A bronze statue of Mars, the Roman god of war, was found in the ancient city of Zeugma in the course of an excavation campaign in 1999-2000. The statue represents one of the most interesting and spectacular finds from this city on the banks of the Euphrates river in southern Anatolia.

The god of war is depicted with a spear in one hand and a scourge in the other, as this article describes:

The statue is of great interest on one side for its rarity, as few Roman bronzes of such size are so well preserved, and on the other for its unusual iconography, depicting the standing god as a young athlete. The right arm is raised, its hand closed around a spear that has not been found, while the left is bent at the elbow, with the hand wielding an object that appears to be a scourge with multiple and symmetrical endings.

Beneath the helmet, thick curls frame the face of the young man whose frown is marked by strongly furrowed eyebrows and a very intense gaze, highlighted by silver and gold inlays around the pupils.

It's believed that this statue was hidden in a closet when the city of Zeugma was ransacked by the Sassanids in 253-256 CE:

The small size of the space in which the artifacts were discovered and its place in the general plan of the villa suggests a closet where the precious materials were hidden to escape the pillaging of the city, carried out in 253-256 AD by the Sassanids.

Unfortunately, most of the archaeological site was flooded when the Birecik Dam was constructed back in 2000, and the ruins at Zeugma are now submerged beneath 60 meters (200 feet) of water. This statue was salvaged (along with many other artifacts) during the emergency excavations that occurred as the site was being flooded; it's currently displayed at the Archaeological Museum of Gaziantep, in southern Turkey.

Sources & More Info:

Centro di Conservazione Archeologica: Zeugma Mars Conservation Project

Journal of Roman Archaeology: The Bronze Mars of Zeugma

Packard Humanities Institute: The Rescue Excavations at Zeugma in 2000

Turkish Archaeological News: Zeugma

UNESCO: The Archaeological Site of Zeugma

Turkish Museums: Time Capsule of Ancient Roman Art: Zeugma

Archaeological Institute of America: Troubled Waters

Archaeology Magazine: Zeugma After the Flood