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waaaiiiit, Odin & lavender? I thought that was just me. I have a thing where lavender is associated with general spiritual things, but Odin especially
are you serious?
bethirstyqueerheart has this going on too and i think is likewise convinced it’s just them.
and, as far as I knew before I found that out, it was just me.
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FRIEND. k know how we were flipping out over flowerporn? I was looking at beads for Odin's prayer beads today and kept coming back to these lil white roses. And I was like "wait, why flowers? Odin doesn't have flowers in His mytholo--OH BUT there is flowers in O/our personal mythology and marriage WELL OKAY ThEn." So I bought them. And some little spiky ones to remind me of Gungnir. I'm so excited to make these. All I need is a pendant or charm for the focus point. :D (public ask if you like)
yes good <3
runecestershire replied to your quote “When I do not even know I am thirsty I want god in my throat. This...”
Why has the deerpocalypse suddenly taken on thirst as a theme, and does this interact with my ongoing breathy bits theme, and and, WHAT?! HOW?! I am too drunk for this
Veit ec at ec hecc vindga meiði a netr allar nío, geiri vndaþr oc gefinn Oðni, sialfr sialfom mer, a þeim meiþi, er mangi veit, hvers hann af rótom renn. Við hleifi mic seldo ne viþ hornigi, nysta ec niþr, nam ec vp rvnar, opandi nam, fell ec aptr þaðan.
I know that I hung on a windy tree nine long nights, wounded with a spear, dedicated to Odin, myself to myself, on that tree of which no man knows from where its roots run. No bread did they give me nor a drink from a horn, downwards I peered; I took up the runes, screaming I took them, then I fell back from there.
Talk at me about the decapitation thing. Is it a specific ID'd deity? part of Deerpocalypse or not? And what's with Freyr here, did I miss something big in the lore or are things just weird. And why do I keep associating this with Mimir's Well? Does that even make sense?
OK, decapitation is a Cernunnos thing - there are a couple of different sources not too hard to track down in this - on my phone, but ping me tomorrow if you have trouble.
Mimir’s well … first of all obviously it’s Odin, and it’s an Odin story that specifically evokes the Hunt (which Odin leads) (but others have led) (but) *takes breaths* and thereby ties back to Cernunnos. Because it’s about that restless relentless more-seeking, that dangerous, go-out-and-get-the-new-thing, nix on settling for what you’ve got, do something drastic to level up sharply Thing. (The difference between hunting and farming/raising is the difference between deer and cattle. See wealth creation vs just wealth. Which is also exactly what Cernunnos is about — all of that Hunt stuff came for me out of that really good article.)
This is why I currently have a lot of questions about Odin and Cernunnos and my personal deerpocalypse. I’m pretty sure Odin is prominent/dominant but I’m not sure if Cernunnos is involved as well, like actually involved per se (and if so, what exactly are the intended roles here) or if it’s a highly specific reference party Odin is throwing me (see: 57 varieties of syncretism — I am a hard polytheist, but also think that They can really get into inter-pantheon resonances in various ways, and that They grow and change, sometimes in ways inflected by people’s associations and conflations, and possibly also that They may decide to draw from far enough back in time that the resulting aspect can approach archetype-ish-ness, see also: Freyr, query).
There I just explained that on my fucking phone. I hate typing on this thing. My syntax is tortured enough when I can see and edit properly.
ALSO, I remembered yet another kingship/deer connection and went googling for the whetstone that might be a sceptre from the Sutton Hoo burial and ended up with this "Rudolf Simek says that "it is not completely clear what role the stag played in Germanic religion" and theorizes that "the stag cult probably stood in some sort of connexion to Odin's endowment of the dignity of kings."" ODIN AGAIN
Oh my gods.
Endowment of the dignity of kings ties into, um a whole line that I don't think I've even posted anything explicit about because it struck me as so fucken weird first off *buries face in hands* but it's kind of burgeoning: did we talk about Mab things yet? Mab/Medb/Maeve, whose name means mead, who's associated with wolves, and with poets, and kingmaking, and sacred drink and -- yeah, you know what, I'm just going to put in a standing order for ice for my head twice a day. Or every single time I manage to surface from my mundane life in order to focus on any of this.
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HOLY SHIT IT'S ODIN
and I'm fairly certain it's still Loki too #blood brothers problems
and I wouldn't rule out involvement of Freyr yet either. or who knows what/Who else. I'm nowhere near drawing any kind of Y/N line here.
I forgot to say, if you guys need me...
I'll be at my Otoya blog because I have a lot of stuff over there, so if Im not here, Im with Otoya! (Littleotoyaittoki)
