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Some of my UPG/personal beliefs and thoughts about Rán

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In addition to the better known spinning taboo at Yule, there is a spinning taboo associated with Winter Nights, which survived as a Saint Ursula’s Day tradition in Norway.

(Saint Ursula, like Saint Sunniva, is an early possibly-fictional saint who may represent the absorption into Christianity of a pre-existing goddess cult.)

“October 21 is "Virgin day" [Jomfrudagen] is associated with St Ursula but is one of the days that points towards the Yule period. It is the first case (imv) of taboo on circular working, like spinning and churning grain.” - caption of the above-linked post by Nordic Animism (Rune Hjarno Rasmussen)

(Look at all those distaff primstav-marks!)

“October 21 – St. Ursula’s Day. No work should be done on any implement that turns, such as a spinning wheel or mill.” https://norwegiantextileletter.com/article/primstav/

Miriam Mencej writes:

“Why was circular movement, i.e. spinning, not allowed on the days/periods when the door between the world of the living and the world of the dead was open? Now, if it was possible to draw the souls of the newborn babies from the other world through circular movement (spinning), it could just as well be possible to draw dangerous demons, i.e. death itself from the other world. If the spinning, circular movement of the spinning wheel or spindle was a way to enter the other world, then we can understand the taboo on spinning as a preventive measure against drawing death to this world during the time when the door to the other world was open.”

https://eastwest.btk.mta.hu/images/pdf/mencej_m_mythical_beings.pdf

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1547 verses written in Haiku meter across 16 poems. The longest of which is Haikus of the High One (Hávamal) at 300 verses.

So yeah, I won't be in a rush to be writing the heroic poems from the Poetic Edda into haiku meter.

Not to get anyone too excited (or disappointed), but the Haiku Edda (mythic edition) is finished.

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Not to get anyone too excited (or disappointed), but the Haiku Edda (mythic edition) is finished.

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Happy Vetrnætr! Verses of the Nine Worlds is now officially out!

Paperback:

Ebook:

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@return-of-ngfb I like the way you think

Happy Vetrnætr! Verses of the Nine Worlds is now officially out!

Paperback:

Ebook:

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So, I messed up and had uploaded the unfinished version of the cover for the paperback, so if anyone ends up that version of the paperback, drop me a message and I'll sort out a free replacement copy with the proper cover

Happy Vetrnætr! Verses of the Nine Worlds is now officially out!

Paperback:

Ebook:

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Me: Maybe I should finish the Haiku Edda.

Also me: Ooooo, I'm gonna write a book about water nymphs instead.

Also me again: CHTHONIC NYMPHS.

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I venerate her mainly as a death goddess and as a goddess associated with the sea (personal UPG based on her epithet Mardoll). When I first started exploring paganism almost 20 years ago, she was pretty much my first deity.

I've had maybe 2 or 3 experiences with her in total, or at least events that I think were experiences anyway (My practice has become very casual over the last few years due to working nights).

Not sure if any of that is what you're meaning when you asked your question, but I saw Freya mentioned and had to respond 😅

Tell me, everyone: What is your experience with Freyja?

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Hymn to the Álfar taken from my book, Verses of the Nine Worlds

Paperback | Ebook | Ebook (Pay What You Want)

A devotional poetry collection to the Norse gods, drawing from the inspirational well of Classical Greece. Homeric and Orphic Hymns unlike anything you've read before. A poetry fusion for the modern Heathen.

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Verses of the Nine Worlds by Nico Solheim-Davidson is out now! @poeticnorth

PAPERBACK | E-BOOK | E-BOOK (Pay what you can)

The poems are Homeric and Orphic-inspired, so the panels on the cover I did represent the Nine Realms of Norse cosmo/mythology in a style inspired by Greek red/black-figure ceramics, Viking Age knotwork and petroglyphs.

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Happy Vetrnætr! Verses of the Nine Worlds is now officially out!

Paperback:

Ebook:

[poeticnorth]

Happy Vetrnætr! Verses of the Nine Worlds is now officially out!

Paperback:

Ebook:

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HAPPY VETRNÆTR! IT IS NOW OFFICIALLY OUT!

Paperback:

Ebook:

Pay what you want/free ebook:

I'm too tired to write out a whole spiel about it but basically, this comes out during Vetrnætr 2024. It's essentially a Homeric and Orphic-inspired devotionalnpoetry but about various figures from the Norse cosmos including but not limited to Odin, Freya, Loki, Thor, Rán, Ægir, Angrboda, Ratatoskr, the four stags or harts on Yggdrasil, etc. There's about 100 poems in total, give or take.

The cover was designed by @bowldrips and they went above and beyond with this, I literally couldn't be any happier with it!

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NIDAVELLIR/MYRKHEIMR | NIĐAVELLIR | WORLD OF THE DWARVES 💎

Big Print version of a panel I made for Verses of the Nine Worlds by Nico Solheim-Davidson. The poems in it are Homeric and Orphic-inspired; so the panels represent the Nine Realms of Norse cosmo/mythology in a style inspired by Greek red/black-figure ceramics, Viking Age knotwork and petroglyphs. Prints of these panels are available in my $hops (with free US shipping!)

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