#jotunheimr

[taw-k]

LOOSING MY FUCKING MIDDNS SNDBAISOG YXKSBEVDKCUSJXBXHDHOZKBS

IVE NEVER LOVED MARVEL MORE I USUALY HATE THEM AND THEYRE THE WPRST BUT HOYLYYYY SHIT YESSSS LOKI MOMMAMAMSMSMAMAMAAAAA

[jaarnvidja]

Musings on the “Mother of Monsters”

I often see Norse practitioners refer to Angrboða as the “Mother of Monsters”, whether they worship/work with her or not. It’s especially present in Þursatru circles.

As I understand it, this title is taken from Hellenic mythology’s Echidna.

In working with Angrboða over the years and devoting myself to her, I’ve found this title does not ring true. People may use whatever they’d like in their practice, but I find it odd to refer to the ruler of the Underworld (Hela), the embodiment of change and growth via destruction (Fenrir), and the embodiment of cosmic cycles (Jörmungandr) to be referred to as monsters or even monstrous.

Calling them monsters feeds into the Post-Christianization narratives that align the Jötnar with demons and Loki with the Christian Devil, taking these spirits out of the animistic cultural context they stem from originally.

[thelovelygods]

[juicet1n-art]

(wip) amelia

hey new followers! here's a fresh WIP treat for y'all as i mourn the inevitable loss of my twitter experience. what's that amelia is holding?

[emmalitwa]

Jötunheimr

Art by Emma Litwa ArtStation | Saatchi | Society6

[sugarlandbabygirl]

Nordic/Viking Music - Jötunheimr

[spillingbooks]

Let me tell you a story. Once upon a time there was a woman who had probably grown up hating Frost Giants like everyone in the Nine Realms. One day, this woman’s husband took home a baby Jotun with the purpose of guarantee peace between Asgard and Jotunheimr.  Maybe she was not that happy about it, after all the baby was no son of her, he was blue and his eyes were as red as blood, but she accepted him anyway. 

She grew fond of him day after day. When she found out the baby -now a boy- was not a warrior like his bother she thaught him magic. But she didn’t reject him. She truly loved him and, even though she had never told him about his true nature, she never decieved him, not once. And, unlike everyone, she had faith in him, for she new he was smart enough to be a good and fair ruler (had he only been a bit less lonely).

You know what? Even though she cared about her adoptive son she never, never forgot her other child, because she had love enough for them both.

And then her adoptive child found about his heritage, he messed everything up and he disappeared. When he came back he was a different person but she still loved him and she broke the law in order to see him and to make him feel less lonely. But you know why she died in the end? She died to save her other son’s love, because she was his mother, too, and she had never forgotten him. The only mistake she did, perhaps, was to not tell her children Frost Giants are not monster.

[taw-k]

ASKSKHSGksldkjdn MY QUEEN I WOULD ACTUALLY DIE FOR YOU OMMGGGGGGH

THATS HIS MOMMA AAAAASA SHE LOVES HIM SK MUCH HE WAS LOVED HE NEEDS TO KNOW SHE LOVED HIM SHE WANTED HIM HES SO IMPORTANT