OrderInTheQuartz

Hail Forseti! Mostly Polytheist and Frisian posts. Contact information is [email protected]. Please do NOT use Tumblr messages if you wish to contact me.

[muspelheim71]

I got inspired by my trip to Ameland and the Fosta pond. Hail Forseti!

[orderinthequartz]

Absolutely love this art and the deep Frisian connection! 

Here is a bit more information for those who may be interested: https://forsetiresourcepages.weebly.com/netherlands.html (my own writing).

[broomsick]

When in need of advice, I retreat to Lord Forseti’s golden hall where the Gods’ justice is made and all quarrels are settled.

[orderinthequartz]

Nice mood mosaic! Definitely has His feel to it! The woodburning in the center is my own work. I made it back in 2016. Hail Forseti!

[archenemyintellegence]

“Salmon man” (14/2/2023)

“I become a mermaid to swim in the depth of your heart💙… so I can dig up shadow work for you! 😈”

This is an absolutely goofy idea. I got a message from Loki during meditation that he wants me to draw him as a mermaid. So I draw him as one. I doubted a lil bit while sketching as this is so silly. But at the moment I drew mermaid feature on him, the joyous energy which is the same as the first time I drew him as a very hot boy appeared again. He is so happy that he gets the silly drawing that he wants 🥴 It’s so much fun for me to try make this idea work too.

When I was finishing the drawing up, I felt that something was missing. And then he demands the seashell party hat with chiffon. It doesn’t make any sense at first but when I added it, I realized it is indeed the thing that’s missing. So, thanks for the idea, Loki 🧜🏻‍♂️🧡 Another fun fact, despite he is a mermaid here, the color is inspired by the flame on his candle haha.

Also, I would like to rant about salmon here.

Yesterday, I learned about different fishes used in sushi during the Japanese cuisine course. One fish the lecturer mentioned is salmon. Although he hasn't talked about salmon in detail this lesson, he brought up some interesting facts about salmon. In sushi, there're "red bodied" fish (赤身), "white bodied" fish (白身), and "silver-skinned" fish (光物). Salmon is one of the "red bodied" fish in sushi. However, if you consider the biological definition of the term (hemogolbin, myoglobin-> makes the meat red), salmon is actually a "white bodied" fish, despite it looks really red. Then I think about the fact that salmon is a sea fish that is born from the lake, making it the only sea fish that is unsafe to eat it raw (cultivated fish is fine I guess). This is indeed THE FISH that is the most suitable for Loki. This is definitely NOT a coincidence that he transformed into a salmon in the myth

Additionally, despite the popularity of salmon sushi in Japan, it is the only sushi (at least from what I know) that is NOT from Japan. The Norwegian invented the salmon sushi and brought it to Japan, in order to try sell their salmon to the Japanese. Isn’t it surprising that there’s a norse background for salmon sushi? Maybe Loki is the one who invented it! Who knows. He may be the God of salmon sushi too 🥴😂😂😂 That’s why he claimed the salmon sushi plush haha. If you’re interested, you can see it on photos of his altar 😭🤪

Finally, here’s a song for this drawing. Enjoy. 🤪😃 I hope the drawing is inspiring for you lmao

[orderinthequartz]

Beautiful Loki artwork by Unylee. Definitely wanted to share such a gorgeous and unique piece!

[orderinthequartz]

Skalds

A newly released Frisian-language song that includes a reference to my closest God, Forseti/Fosite. Here is my translation:

https://lyricstranslate.com/en/skalden-skalds.html

[birdsofrhiannon]

Sulis, Goddess of Healing

[orderinthequartz]

Hail Sulis! 

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The Gods are Love, The Gods are Light, The Gods are Joy

I’ve been off Tumblr so long I forgot to mention... I actually have a new Polytheist blog as of this year. It’s quite “woo” at times, be forewarned. Egyptian Djehuty (Thoth) is in my life now, along with more Norse Gods and Goddesses, so there is that too. 

[orderinthequartz]

http://www.mattkinney.net/sacred-rite - click on the photo on the artist’s website for more images.

Golden Axe - Sacred Rite - by Matt Kinney.

Strong Forseti vibes.

[orderinthequartz]

No Longer On Tumblr Much: Contact Information/E-mail

I’m on Tumblr less and less now, but am still very happy to try to answer questions or to hear from you, especially if you are interested in anything Frisian and/or the God Forseti.

My best contact is [email protected]. I’d ask that you please use this instead of Tumblr messaging now. Tumblr messaging never seems to work right and I honestly have no idea if some of the people who sent questions ever got a reply. So... e-mail is always best!

Full disclosure: I am a devotional Polytheist and a mystic. My relationships with the Gods are based far more on ecstatic practice and on gnosis than on anything else. I am also, by choice and in accordance with the path my Gods have laid down for me, a solitary practitioner and most emphatically not a part of any organized spiritual group, be it Pagan, Heathen, or otherwise. 

Be well and Gods bless.

[orderinthequartz]

Beautiful Artwork Of Baldr And Other Norse Gods By Milbeth Morillo

I was, ahem, “instructed” to update one of my altar pictures today. Searching for a new piece, I found an artist who is new to me, Milbeth Morillo, and ordered a print. Here is a stunning example of the artist’s work, “Baldr the god of light.” And here is a more general link for their Redbubble account (which allows you to use Amazon information to make purchases): 

https://www.redbubble.com/people/milbethmorillo/portfolio

[orderinthequartz]

The beginnings of my Cernunnos altar. The statue is from Blagowood (link). I added color with watercolor paints. 

[to-live-in-breidablik]

Altar update

Five serving dishes on the main table, filled with cookies, chocolates, and cake. Jewelry, shells, flowers, candles, and crystals decorate the table. There is a small drawer in the table where I store literature about Norse paganism. 

This shelf is reserved for Baldr alone, while the main table is offered to Nanna and Forseti as well as Baldr. A glass of wine, a painting, my most beautiful crystal, and a lucky trinket given to me by my mother (a small white cat).

[orderinthequartz]

A beautiful altar for Baldr, Nanna, and Forseti! -reblogged from to-live-in-breidablik

[orderinthequartz]

“Ravens” - A Song By The Frisian-language Band “Baldrs Draumar”

“Nine worlds, nine cold nights... two ravens fly one by one, black... their majestic wings course through the sky... nine skies around one great Tree...

Midgard, look above! Two ravens fly over your skies! A sign of the gift of the Gods’ language spoken! They whisper the secrets of the world in Weda’s (Odin’s) ears, of how they’ll fly out again on the coming day.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-RZPlM5iNk

“Three roots, three sources, the treasures of life from each blooming twig... fate is spun from the three Norns, and Hugin and Munin bring the news... Hugin and Munin, where are you now? Thoughts and memories, come back to me again!”

[orderinthequartz]

“The Sea God” ~ my own woodburning, made in early 2016. 

[juliamstarr]

[voyageravecnyna]

Vlieland, Friesland, Nederland - April 2017

[orderinthequartz]

Suspicion Of The Gods: Stop Already

Let me ask you a question: how would you like it if someone compared interacting with you and your closest, oldest friends as “running a daycare”? How would you like it if your kindest impulses and most heart-felt disclosures were met with constant suspicion? 

I’m writing this on the day of the week named after a God I hold very, very dear, second only to my Patron Himself. Wodan, the God against Whom everyone seems to have an axe to grind. Yes, there is a time and a place to be careful. But I’m going to call it as I see it: I think this attitude can go way too far. And that it has in modern Pagan practice.

How about approaching Them in trust? How about assuming that if you speak to Them with an open heart and offer the smallest offering (say, a simple candle and a prayer) with an open heart, They will return your blessing a thousandfold? That if something else is out to deceive you in Their name, They will come through for you?

How about assuming that our Gods are actual Gods, and not dead memories on a dusty shelf?

I started off with this assumption knowing next to nothing of Polytheism at the end of 2010. I’m still here writing in 2018. This “naive” assumption has served me very well. 

Set aside the skeptical, so-called “wisdom” of your “fellow Pagans” for a moment. Trust what your own heart is telling you. Trust it deeply. And--even if it’s only as a month-long thought experiment--try trusting in Them deeply.

The world is rapidly changing. The Veil is shredded (link). Just maybe, against everything you’ve ever heard before... this will be the time to finally thrive. 

[orderinthequartz]

My own photography: Helgoland, Germany, taken 2018. The island’s cattle were once sacred to Fosite (Forseti) and it was nice to see a small herd grazing in the fields north of town. The third picture here was taken from the island of Düne, which was connected to Helgoland until just under three hundred years ago, when a storm surge separated the two islands.