#rán

[bowldrips]

RÁN: Collecting Moon Water 🌊

(based on a photo by Yoshiyuki Iwase)

[poeticnorth]

Been struggling to find something to post for a while now, so here's my weaving ritual

[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.

[piratespacex]

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.

[nordseehexe]

Sea Goddess Rán on the danish ship Jylland

[tommy-vulgar]

Yesterday was a lovely day admiring nature. It's always so awesome to live on the coast and experience the King tides. Hail to Njord, Ægir, and Rán for such lovely ocean views!

[papabigtoes]

Shaded Render Commission for @cloudchaser2000 - a scene from Ep II of their fantastic work Prophecy of the Water God!

[2dlovley]

The laufey's

(sorry for the tag)

@ryebread-x 's laufey

@sigyn-foxyposts 's laufey

and @piratespacex 's laufey

and here's ran and mini ægir

[aspiring-sea-hag]

I’ve been in a silly goofy mood lately and found myself thinking about the idea of making tiny sailboats out of leaves and then putting them in the surf to “sink” as offerings to Rán. It was a joke at first, but the more I thought about it the more it sounded like a good idea, and we’ve always hard a bit of a playful relationship, so I decided to pray about it. I was worried that it might seem condescending or offensive in some way, but I don’t think I’ve ever felt so much excitement in a prayer before.

Guess I have a job to do.

(edit: I did it, we both had fun :) there’s an update later on my blog)

[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

[mythos-soup]

Aegir: Smart is attractive. Educate me on something I don't know! Rán: The mouth of a jellyfish is also it's anus. Aegir: Stop.

[bowldrips]

Could I have a bindrune for Rán?

You can have 3!

Jellyfish version!

Cipher rune fishbone and octopus!

Original post here

[poeticnorth]

Wrote some more stuff about my own UPG. This time about wyrd and how I view it as being more like the sea, rather than a web or tapestry

[bloodstainedcupid]

bnnuy (she/they/it)

[mythologicafolk]

Dutch Nordic folk artist Kati Rán released Sála, her first solo album after the dissolution of her former band, L.E.A.F. With 13 tracks, Sála ("soul", "sea") was conceived with the close collaboration of Finnish producer Jaani Peuhu.

Read more:

https://mythologica.com.br/en/news/kati-ran-releases-sala/

[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)