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Hey all!

I know that completing rituals or having the time/money for leaving offerings is not always accessible to practing pagans. I'd like to start a little series on scrappy/in a pinch practices that are more easily done and don't require too many spoons/too much time/a lot of $$$.

As a Hel devotee, first on my list is a practice well-suited to what she represents within the Norse world, though this could apply to other deities of other underworld, or simply as you see fit.

We've all heard of leaving food and drink as an offering for your chosen deity, right? Well, for Hel, seeing as her dishes at her table are called "hunger," why not play with that idea and leave your empty plate, mug, or drinking glass on your altar after you've eaten? As protector of the underworld, Hel is receiving your thanks, like a note to the fact that you still reside in the world of the living, and require mortal things such as food (bonus points if your food scraps consist of things like animal bones!)

Let me know what you guys think of this series, and this idea in particular. Will you be trying it?

xᛗ

#norse paganism #norse pagan #norse mythology #norse gods #pagan #paganism #heathenry #hel #goddess hel #heathen

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the "i'm not pretty like the other girls because i'm pale and skinny" female protagonist trope is something i loathe more than almost anything else in the world but i'd be more willing to forgive it if the author was brave enough to commit to it. if your "unattractive" female protagonist is a snow-white waif then i'd better see you emphasising how nauseatingly corpselike she looks. how people shudder when her maggot-flesh fingers touch their bare skin because they're expecting her to be cold and damp. how her birdlike bones and dainty waist are contemptible rather than desirable. maybe even have her develop a degree of beauty by gaining some weight and colour for a change. put down the necromancer barbie template and show me a proper little freak.

#hel #and I say that with the utmost affection #norse paganism #norse pagan #norse mythology #norse gods #pagan #paganism #heathenry #goddess hel #heathen

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Actually if you see a crow it's a good omen because crows are my friends and I love them.

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Emroidered altar cloth for Disting / Charming-of-the-plough

I’m trying to make an embroidered altar cloth for all of the pagan celebrations of this year. They’re inspired and based on traditional German cross stitch patterns. So here’s my design for Disting / Charming-of-the-plough (feel free to use it yourself :) ):

I'm probably gonna embroider it on a dark brown fabric to symbolize the dark season

Pattern:

the pattern is from a German pattern book from 1608

(the pattern has a size of about 283 x 117 stitches)

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Illustration "Allfather" 2016 artist unknown.

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Bringer of Light by Alexey Egorov

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by Chao Zhang

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Norwegian Forest Cat

by nordligdrom

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I want to be here

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Kittilä, Finland by Emmanuel VRIGNAUD

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finally I got them all

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by Ivana Djudic

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Our Lady of the Forest, drawn in procreate. prints