i wanted to share my prayer fidgets!
it took me a long time to figure out how to pray, but these things help immensely.
i need to make wayy more, but anyway: to make one, i focus on the deity it's for, and if they're norse i go look up their kennings and choose the ones most meaningful to me personally. i can also use modern spg kennings or make up my own, but the traditional ones are a good starting point where they exist. i decide on what sentence or words i want the long part to say, then i choose a color scheme and bead up the whole thing. i start with the deities name three times in a little loop that i can later hold it with. if they have multiple names i can also mix it up. then at the end, i add a fitting charm. to pray, i stand at the open window and read the words out loud (or in my mind), starting at the name repeats. then i wrap it around my hand and can hold on to it and fidget while i talk. having a start to a prayer like that really helps me get into the right mindspace for praying rather than overthinking and not knowing what to say, and having something to hold that also signifies a connection has proven very beneficial. maybe this can help someone else!
i also wanted to share which words i chose and how they look because they are very beautiful, so let me type out the words.
saga, saga, saga - seer and storyteller on the sunken bank. (colors: black, white, silver and blue. charm: sanddollar and key.)
loki, loki, loki - cunning-wise loki, father of monsters, the bound god. (colors: black, white, red, green, purple, gold. charm: some sort of knot.)
demon, devil, lucifer - questioner, opener, fallen angel, serpent dragon. (colors: black, white, red, yellow, silver, gold. charm: upside-down cross.)
hel, hel, hel - concealer, protector and keeper of the dead. (colors: black, white, silver. charm: skull and ankh.)
odin, odin, odin - gallows burden, god of runes, masked one, allfather. (colors: black, white, red, purple, blue, silver. charm: raven skull.)
idunn, idunn, idunn - ancient aesirs lady, keeper of the orchard, with wisdom of the earth. (colors: black, white, yellow, gold. charm: apple.)
freyr, yngvi, freyr - god of seasons, peaceful king. (colors: black, green, orange, yellow, gold. charm: crown.)
for storage i put the loop on a removable chain in the lid of a wooden box, the long tails go in the box. since the names are on the loops, they are easy to find that way.
