icestormvulpix:

edderkopper:

starlingwitch:

If a deity is telling you to only work with them and to not read any source material (like the Eddas), you might wanna double check that that’s actually the deity in question and not something else. Blind devotion is not something deities like Loki require or ask for.

Honestly, if a deity forbids me from reading anything I’m out. Whether they’re the real deal or not. Someone who restricts my access to knowledge, particularly knowledge involving them, is not someone I want to worship.

Bast once dropped a book on my head, I have the exact opposite problem.

Bast did the same thing to my roommate @diimmortalesolympians

prokopetz:

I love it when Icelandic sagas attribute every microscopic inconvenience that befalls a hero on his journeys to “witchcraft”. It makes me picture a really bored witch just micromanaging the hell out of this one particular guy’s daily travails.

bridges-burnt:

Little things that Loki can be seen in

Tattoos with personal stories behind them

Inside jokes that leave people giggling

Loud laughing and snorting

Piercings

Fireworks, especially ones done at home

Bugs, rodents, bats, etc. Things thought of as gross

Witty retorts

Protestors, pride marchers, etc.

People struggling with mental illness

People struggling with thirst/hunger

Glitter that has been stuck to you for days

femoral-pulse:

My hot take that nobody asked for? Loki is in no way chaotic evil but a true neutral.

1) he is never the first to act against someone and only reacts to the same degree in which he was wronged

2) does his best to fix the problem he caused

3) sticks by his own set of moral principles

edderkopper:

groundedbaby:

Calling all pagans!

What are some of your favorite books for your craft? I want to look more into the Norse deities but have no where to start. What are some of the things that got you started?

Thank you!!

Norse Polytheism Primary Sources:

Modern Heathen Religion and Scholarship:

As you research, be aware that most of the books written by Heathens for Heathens are
either written by racist, homophobic, or otherwise dangerous people or just
generally very inaccurate. Until you have a basic grasp of the lore to
help you differentiate between fact and BS, I really recommend sticking
with academic sources. Not that academics can’t be full of it too, but
assuming you stick with recent sources, they are less likely to be
neonazis. (For obvious reasons, this does not apply to academic stuff
from the late 19th/early 20th century when certain movements were at
their height.)