#death goddess

[genevawrenn]

On the fourth day of Philmas the Death Goddess gave to me : four mental breakdowns

[degusart]

Art 2/2 gifts for my friend @ijltln, this one featuring the blue gilrie Roosa. My wife and godess loml, the pose is referencing Arthur Hughes's Ophelia, my favorite painting.

In this illustration she's holding Foxfglove and deadly nightshade, as well as some flesh. What does a death godess need with these? Well, can't a girl have hobbies?

Anyway you should love her too. Merry Christmas Ace!

[looking-at-the-deiwos]

Could you do an informational post on Mórā?

K̑ólyā

Or as I write it Kólya, also found as Kolyos, her name means "The Coverer". She's also known as Mórā or Mértis.

She's the goddess of the underworld, the dead and winter. While Yemós is the deity who rules over the underworld, Kólya is death itself. She is in charge of taking away souls to the underworld when the time of death comes. She is said to take the souls with a noose or a snare.

According to this source, she is the daughter of the goddess of night, Nókʷts, and the god of sleep, Swépnos. She is in turn the consort of the god of magic Wélnos and with him fathers the many monsters of Proto Indo-European myth, like the great monster Wṛ́tros which is slain by the thunder god Perkʷū́nos.

Offerings

taken from here

Goad

noose or hook

black stone, ideally one with a magnetic charge

imagery of scavenger animals: crow, raven, etc.

crow or raven feathers

Devotional acts

UPG

Visit cemeteries and leave flowers (with permission!)

Collect animal bones (ethically sourced)

Learn more about death and take your time to get more comfortable with the concept

Collect antiques

If you can, help those who are closer to death (the elderly, those in hospice, etc.)

Associations

Black

Noose

Hook

Winter

Beech

the feast of Samhain

Descendants in later pantheons

Hel (Nordic)

Calypso (Greek)

Mors (Roman)

Sarva (Indian)

Kālī (Indian)

Māra (Indian)

[00waywardalma00]

She shines even more in the dark. 🕯️💀🕯️

Ella brilla aun mas en la oscuridad. 🕯️💀🕯️

[reno-matagot]

Val Trullinger • Crone

[fornasedensgudar]

Have you forgotten her?

Do you know her name?

Who is she?

The goddess Ilmr.

(Pardon my bad english, not my first language)

Shes listed as a goddess and occurs in skaldic kennings in the 10th and 11th centuries, and were likely about to be forgotten and lost to all time.

Her name and mystery intreeged me and my fiance, so we did some witchy trans work and see what we could find and then compared, and we both came down to:

"Goddess of change, opens portals to helheim.

Protect the dead and give a safe passage.

Maker of scents to calm the dying. Half sister to Eir. Cold, alone and missunderstood.

Helps you re-think situations and see diffrent outlooks.

Half asir and half jötunn.

Perhaps listed as a disir and a valkyria."

(This is our UPG so take it as you may, its ok if you see her diffrent.)

But also, Not to far of I say so. If you look at some of the very little we have about her and some theories scholars have.

Like most goddesses her name hints to her role. But we are not sure what it means? Some say ilmr means "pleasant scent". This is strange for a goddess/valkyrie but another of her name some say could etymologically related to almr, meaning Elm tree. A tree that on iceland would then ben a rare and more and more rare thing to see along with most trees after the first settlments. Wich might be why she was forgotten, if she is the goddess of the Elm and the Elm becomes rare and travel to places where the elm grow and pepole know of her, then she becomes more and more unknown.

Another intresting thing about the Elm is that in folklore all over Europe its associated with death, something thats rather intresting when looking to a skald from 950s with the kenning "jalmr Ilmar" meaing "Ilmrs alarm". A nother hint to this is that Ilmr may be related to the noun jalmr (noise).

Also, in "Bjarnar saga Hítdælakappa" Bjarnar calls the disir that tells him about his comming death for "Ilmr armleggjar orma". Meaning sort of "ilmr of the armrings". Another thing hinting to her work in death.

So what do you say? Goddess of good scent? Or death? I say why not both? Of lovely scents and with incense we give thanks to spirits of the dead and their Guardian Who guides them to the next realm. With a lovely scent she calms the dead. She who screams in allarm on the battlefeald, goddeass of the Elm. She who helps those Eir could not.

Ilmr.

Here it up to us, the modern polytheistic community to remake as well make something new. Traditions and gods change and its we Who write the history as we work with and learn more about these gods. ((But remeber to make it clear whats UPG and whats based in old sources))

So what do you say?

Do you know the name Ilmr? And how do you see this forgotten goddess?

[akhret]

Neith

𓈖𓏏𓋌𓁐     𓈖𓏏𓋋    𓈖𓏏𓌖     𓋋        𓈖𓏏𓋋𓆎     𓈖𓏏𓋌      𓈖𓏏𓋋𓆗
 𓋌     𓈖𓏏𓋋𓁐       𓏏𓏏𓋌

Meaning of her name

Her name possibly means:

"She belonging to Lower Egypt"

"terror", "fear", "terrible one"

Epithets

The father of fathers, mother of mothers

Enduring of love

The divine mother who protects Horus

Lady of the West

Neith who shines from the Akhet

Chief of the Nine Bows

Mighty of rage

Foremost of Per-netjer

Areas of worship

Esna. Ḥwt-Nt, or known as the Temple of Neith. Her and Khnum's temples were called Ḥwt-B3w , or the Temple of the Souls.

Temple of Neith at Satis

Offerings

Bow and arrows

Lapis lazuli

Turquoise

Jasper

Meat

Bread

Beer

Honey

Wine

Water

Spider web iconography

Knitting tools, yarn, fabrics

A loom

Information

Neith had emerged from the primordial waters, turning into a cow and then a *lates* fish. From there she brought thirty gods out of the primordial waters and raised the “High Mound” for her and her children. She possesses the power to control everything within the cosmos through thought, speech and names. She’s associated with weaving, with weaving being a symbol of the cosmic order and her divine wisdom. Her association with weaving, led her to being associated with making the bandages for the dead, but she herself had created the Duat for the deceased to pass through. She would enliven the dead and protect them during the passage through the underworld with her bow and arrows, which was a trademark symbol for the Great Goddess. Her symbol of the bow and arrows made her a goddess of hunting, later becoming war, and protector of her son, Re. She is the patroness of victorious weapons and would protect both the dead and alive from enemies or those who sought to harm the King and his heirs. Even when those she protected were harmed, you could seek her for her ability to heal.

Bibliography and more notes posted here

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[oonaluna-art]

A Patreon commission of Hel / Hela from Norse Mythology!

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[thesorceresstemple]

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Death Deity

[PT: Death Deity]

Other labels contain, Death God, Death Goddess, Death Xeity, Death Fewity, and Death Odity. This is under the Deity Umbrella(link)!

A flag for those who a Death deity, a deity from Death, a deity that’s the embodiment of Death, a deity that controls Death, etc. This can be kin, delusion, religious beliefs, etc. anyone who can fall under this and anyone can use it!

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[talefoundryshow]

Not death itself but closely linked to it, psychopomps serve as shepherds, judges, rulers, and even comforters of the souls of the newly dead.

[cookiegalaxye]

Genesis, chapter 3: Plants, Oceans and Land

The third chapter is finally here!!

Sorry it took so long to post ;-; I kinda forgot about scanning it and sending it before actually posting it. But now that school is finished, I'll try to post new chapters more often :]

<<<previous chapter next chapter>>>

[maimoncat]

Nachdem @adarkrainbow seine Posts über Frau Holle geschrieben hat, dachte ich mal, auch hier dieses Bild von ihr zu posten. Das ist von vor zwei Jahren, als ich zum ersten Mal Dario Argentos „Suspiria“ und „Drei Mütter Trilogie“ geschaut habe. Frau Holles Erscheinungsbild hier ist von Heinrich Pröhles „Harzsagen“ über den Sie-Dich-Im in St. Andreasberg, wo sie eher als Spukgestalt gekannnt war. Die Glocke erscheint in manchen Sagen um den Frau Holle Teich.

After @adarkrainbow‘s series of posts on Frau Holle, I thought to post this old piece here! This is from two years ago, when I was inspired by watching Dario Argento‘s „Suspiria“ and his „Three mothers trilogy“. Frau Holle‘s appearance here is based on Heinrich Pröhle‘s „Harzsagen“ around mount Sieh-Dich-Im (Look-Behind) in st. Andreasberg, where she was better known as a boogeyman. The bell appears in some legends about the Frau Holle Lake on the Meißner.

Dopo la serie di post da parte di @adarkrainbow su Madama Holle, ho pensato di postare anche qui questo vecchio disegno di lei. Questo è di sue anni fa, quando ho visto per la prima volta “Suspiria” e la trilogia delle “tre madri” di Dario Argento. Il suo aspetto qui è ispirato alle “harzsagen” di Heinrich Pröhle, riguardo al monte Sieh-Dich-Im, a st. Andreasberg, dove era vista come uno spauracchio per bambini. La sua campana appare in alcune leggende sullo stagno di Madama Holle sul Meißner.

[00waywardalma00]

E-offering for Santa Muerte. 🌹💀🌹

Ofrenda electrónica para La Santa Muerte.🌹💀🌹

[sewingbear]

Fanart of @shadzys-art

[stranded-in-paradise]

The Morrigan