#goddess Rán

[drowningwitchdreams]

Another song for the Rán playlist

[bowldrips]

RÁN: Collecting Moon Water 🌊

(based on a photo by Yoshiyuki Iwase)

[babylon-crashing]

Q: why is the grim reaper traditionally portrayed as a man?

Based on some of the replies to this question I’m always amazed at folks who don’t understand symbolism and metaphors. There’s a reason why we call it the personification of death and not some living flesh and blood monstrosity that will allow you to make generalizations about a concept that is, in fact, genderless.

A tiny glance around the world will show that there are just as many female psychopomps of death as there are male. Santa Muerte (Mexican folk saint), Mictecacihuatl (Aztec), La Calavera Catrina (Day of the Dead), Izanami (Shinto), Giltinė (Latvia), Banshee (Gaelic), Hel (Scandinavia) and Morana (Slavic tradition) are all female versions of death’s embodiment. I’ll go so far as to say that the whole concept of the Grim Reaper is a rather new invention, since, “The earliest appearance of the name ‘Grim Reaper’ in English is in the 1847 book ‘The Circle of Human Life’ … [and] because the word for death [in Polish] ‘śmierć’ is feminine in gender, death is frequently portrayed as a skeletal old woman.”

I guess a slightly larger question for me is the most obvious: the Grim Reaper is a skeleton in robes … how well versed in human anatomy do you have to be in order to tell its gender from nothing more than a skull and some boney hands?

The version I’m using for the Seven of Swords is Rán, the Norse sea goddess, who collects the drowned in a fishing net.

[nordseehexe]

Sea Goddess Rán on the danish ship Jylland

[dark-e-arts]

Rána and The Angler

Exploring some art of a TTRPG character I designed a few years ago but haven't had the opportunity to play. Rána is a monster hunting merfolk from a lineage of manta, mako and orca origin. Tall, wiry and tough, she's able to wield her whale-bone hook weapons using a combination of brute strength and substantial finesse - both underwater and on land. She harbors a fascination of the strange world outside her home in the depths, but also a distaste for freshwater

[poeticnorth]

Wrote a Hymn to Rán (Well, I've written three so far, but this is the one I'm sharing as part of an ongoing project)

[imprvdente]

@tmvoldemort​ . 𝐆𝐎𝐃𝐃𝐄𝐒𝐒 𝐀𝐔 𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐄𝐑 𝐂𝐀𝐋𝐋

An eerie vision stepped out of the cold waves, long blue hair trickling down her back. Water flowed against her skin to return to the Ocean, leaving little droplets behind. Rán looked ageless, wild, and most importantly... angry. 

“You have been trying very hard to catch my attention,” she told the hooded silhouette standing on the beach, “well, now you have it.” Her voice was menacing, like a storm brewing on the horizon. Calm and yet implacable. 

“It is not very wise, to anger a Goddess. Speak before I decide to punish you for the mayhem you have caused.”

[sigyn-foxyposts]

My wife, I finally know why you look so crazy.. I love her 😭💔 🌊

Now for Rán!

Her design actually has her topless but I was too embarrassed to draw tits so I covered it. So she’s canonically wearing nothing but for my sake I’ll cover it. The reason why she looks like that is because sailors abused her a lot since she hated that sailors took lots of marines animals from their homes and caused extinctions to some. So when sailors fought back , they fought back hard. Once she had been captured and was set to be executed but was saved by Ægir, hence the chain. She also survived a blood eagle hence why her back fin is actually her spine. So no Rán isn’t fine.

Little fun fact, she comes from the Pacific Ocean while Ægir came from the Atlantic.

[kleinergeist]

People/things I've been told I look like, in order from most to least normal:

- my mother

- my father

- Winona Ryder

- Timothee Chalamet

- a 1920s flapper

- Buster Keaton

- a stranger's husband

- a stranger's wife

- Harrowhark Nonagesimus

- Prince Hamlet

- an 80s New Romantic

- Cesare the Somnambulist from The Cabinet of Dr Caligari (1920)

- a black cat

- an owl

- a fevered Victorian poet

- the goddess Artemis

- a Byronic hero

- a Byzantine saint

- a rat

- a spider

- Victor Frankenstein

- a medieval stable boy

- a random mugshot at the local police station

- Rán, the Norse goddess of the sea

- an 18th century haunted doll

- the actual Grim Reaper

- a freshly drowned corpse

[marvelshifter111]

Hiiii <3<3<3 (love ur blog) can I request water power aliases!!! Ty

Thank you for sending an ask ❤️

Superhero names - hydrokinesis

Rigo - "wet" in Latin

Unda - "wave" in Latin

Rhea - "flowing water"

Onda - "ripple" in French

Meeri - "sea of bitterness"

Zale - "strength of the sea"

Kai - "the sea" Hawaiian name

Ondine - "water spirit" in Latin

Yara - "beauty of the waves" Brazilian name

Talay - Turkic god of the Ocean

Neptune - Greek god of sea

Vales/Volos - Slavic god of sea

Amphitrite - Greek goddess of sea

Rán - Norse goddess of sea

Superpower pack

Visuals

Tried something new with the look cuz why not

[sol-saga]

Aegir - God of The Ocean Ægir, Hlér or Gymir is the Norse God of The Sea and Ocean. He is associated with the tumultuous and unpredictable nature of the water and the brewing of ale. He is a gracious and hospitable host though he is formidable when crossed. Aegir is considered jötnar (giant) but is still associated with the gods and invited to feasts. His wife is Rán, Goddess of the Sea. They share nine daughters; the nine waves.

[drowningwitchdreams]

Rán gets a mention in D'aulaire's Book of Norse Myths (yes, they have a Norse one as well). It refers to her as an "evil witch," which I am not a fan of, but I was surprised she got a mention at all.

[bowldrips]

This is a painting of Rán I'm working on based on a photo by Yoshiyuki Iwase. I've been trying to keep WIP stuff on Ko-Fi but I've gotten stuck at this point. It feels like something is missing—jewelry maybe?

[sarenth]

Hail to the Gods of the Waters

Hail Njörðr! Hail Rán! Hail Ægir! Hail to the Nine Undine Goddesses! Thank you for the bounty of the sea, of life that swims and strains Thank you for the sweat of fishermen, the strong meat of the oceans That raise up from the depths and nourish us Thank you, Holy Ones. Hail to the Gods of the Seas, the Oceans, the Rivers, the Lakes, and the Streams! Hail to the Gods of the Waters,…

[nordseehexe]

My altair to the mighty goddes inanna and sea goddess rán (I can’t find any merch with the original shiphead I use in my avatar, I only found the „seute deern“ who‘s also a shiphead and the only female figure I found in local merch shops but she’s just a ragular girl, not a goddess)

[initial-lime]

hello fellow buried avatar. thoughts on the deep sea? the crushing weight of water all around? it is my personal favorite method of being compressed. :)

OooOoOoOooOoOoOoOoOooOOOOOOOHHH AnOn. My love for the crushing, suffocating weight of the ocean is what put me down this path to begin with!

Being a norse pagan my deity of choice has always been Rán, the relatively unknown water/death goddess. She’s mainly known for collecting and drowning sailors in her fishing net. (I can recommend pursuing this branch of knowledge in personal research, if you’re the type)

I love the ocean, she is a greater weight than the vacuum of space. It fills your lungs and drags you down. Oh to be waterlogged and sinking in her might

And don’t even get me STARTED on the undertow phenomenon!!! It literally pulls you under!! Good gods.