Hello friends, I was wondering if anyone here had any links to any decent invocation rituals to call upon Thor? I checked Google and looked for a few but many of them were just simple prayers without a whole lot of ritual integrated into them. I did find one that seemed like a decent ritual but it was an invocation of all of the Norse Gods, since I'm dipping my toes into Norse Magick I'd like to start with Thor since I recently started taking martial arts lessons and I think he could help me immensely with getting into shape and learning the arts of combat.
I've already drawn a sigil to represent him on my altar. I don't have a lot of altar space so I'll most likely have to temporarily clear my altar dedicated to King Paimon, Lucifer, and Lilith to do this ritual. The entities I work with seem to understand that my space is limited since I've had to do this before.
I'm thinking I'll start by lighting a candle on top of his sigil while it's on my altar but I guess my question is, are there particular incense he likes? I get the feeling he's the kind of entity that might like beer or mead so I'm thinking about offering him a beer (since I can't really afford mead right now).
Also, often when I invoke entities I draw an inverted pentagram in the air using a ritual dagger to quite literally draw down the spirit and bring it within myself, would this work for Norse magick? Keep in mind, most of my background is in daemonic sorcery. Also, is there anything else I should know before I invoke him tomorrow?
There was a ritual dominant in pre-Christian Scandinavia that occurred at every birth. The healthy newborn infant (male or female) was sprinkled with water and given a gift and a name once approved by the head of the household (usually the father or next highest male figure; mother if no men present). This was perhaps a symbolic way of bringing the child into the family line.
examples include:
VΗ«lsunga Saga- When the hero SigurΓ°r is born he is brought to his mothersβ husband and sprinkled with water.
Ragnars Saga LoΓ°brΓ³kar- When Γvar the Boneless (Γvarr inn Beinlausti) is born he is brought to Ragnar and sprinkled with water.
Hervarar Saga ok HeiΓ°reks- When HervΗ«r was born, since her father the berserkr AngantΓ½r and her mother were dead, she was brought to her maternal grandfather and sprinkled with water. He was advised in some manuscripts of the saga to expose her because she might have negative qualities of her berserkr father, but he decides to keep her.
RΓgsΓΎula 7, 19 and 32- When the children of the three classes (ΓΎrΓ¦llar, Karlar and Jarlar) fathered by Heimdallr are born, the βfatherβ and mother sprinkle them with water.
Video by Dr. Jackson Crawford:
https://youtu.be/lkgkUSid9Hc
Just thought it may be a great way to handle it, anyone else got any interesting suggestions?
Minor spoiler- >! Apostle!< I really love movies like that where the gods are powerful, but not rule the world powerful. The Ritual is specifically about a norse type God but the origin doesn't matter much to me. I just really love the feel of that type of story. Thanks!
Hey yall, i consider myself a norse pagan but never really got into much of it beyond giving offerings to Freya So I've never really looked into things like funeral rites, marriage traditions or other rituals/traditions
Is there a good resource compiling most of these practices?
In Infinity War Thor passes out leading to the axe Stormbreaker having no hilt at all, which Groot fixes. In Norse mythology Mjolnir is intended to be a long hilt requiring two hands to use, like a battlehammer, but Loki interferes with the creation leading to the smaller hilt, which Thor decides he likes anyway because it means he can throw it.
he brought rum, inflated a bed a ran away into the woods screaming he lost the keys of his space saucer
we're still looking for him
First thing first, I didn't know there was an Asatru sub, so awesome! Here's a link to the original thread:
http://www.reddit.com/r/Norse/comments/2q2ufr/confused_about_traditions_and_rituals_odinism_vs/
Norse gave some answers that made me happy, but they pointed me here, and I figure more opinions from more people are awesome.
Hail all. I come seeking the wisdom of this board, as I have become recently confused about my faith. First let me emphasize I come here only seeking answers and clarifications. I have no intention of insulting any other view points, or saying the way someone else practices is wrong. Which is actually why I come here today, I've been told (more or less) that I've been practicing wrong.
To give some background, I am of Saxon and Visigothic ancestry, so I'm not actually Norse. Though as I'm sure we all know, there is more known and documented about Norse Paganism, than Ancient Germanic Paganism. So most of the time I go by "Norse Pagan" because it's understood better, but personally I consider my self more Germanic Pagan, because that's where my ancestry lies. I've been practicing for about 7 years now. Generally I'm more historical re-creationist. Not a reenactor, but I tend to lean more towards "do it the way they did it back then". I'm not exactly strict about it or anything. I just generally avoid any Wiccan or Christian influences where possible.
My friend, who recently got out of prison, found out I follow the old ways. He's "Asatru" though he comes off way more as an "Odinist". He was in prison, and admittedly he was inducted by Odinist and white supremacists.
On to the questions. The first is, when Bloting and performing Sumbel he insists we must cast a circle, and then hammer in and out. As far as I was aware, I thought this was a Wiccan tradition. In all of the historical reading and research I've done, I don't recall much mention of casting circles. I thought all that was necessary was the invocation or invitation of the Gods, and then dismissal/farewell. Even in the Asatru Folk Assembly video I recently watched, instructing how to perform blot, there is no mention of casting a circle. Can anyone clarify?
The second major point is Mjolnir. I bought my brothers hammers, as a Yule gift, and he informed us we were not supposed to wear them till we "bleed them in". As far as I was aware, jewelry was just jewelry. I've heard of blessing items, but I thought that was always just a choice.
The last question I can think of
... keep reading on reddit β‘Finally brought myself around to watching this one. Was a little amazed by it and also disliked it a bunch, too and found that, of all the Netflix-made horror, some of which is really not well done (I've not seen it all, by a long shot) this one at least held my attention and kept my interest. I also thought that it was a cool idea, generally. What I didn't like was the tendency to nod at other "Cabin Horrors" a little too hard and also the "lost in the woods" or the "don't go in the woods" tropes made it painful. The mummies were heavy nods at the Blair Witch nonsense and while it spared us the 'found footage' chicanery that I have come to loath, it was at least internally consistent and compelling. The plot was slapdash--why are these movies either kids on holiday to drink and screw and smoke and get murdered or people doing something to honor a lost friend? Again, though, the filming was pretty impressive. Luke's (Rafe Spall) guilt is nearly palpable and the emotional quality of the tension between the four friends is quite deep. Sadly, though I didn't really care about the other guys, so much. They didn't get deep enough to make me like them or build a relationship with them, so I wasn't too bummed. The paltry horror movie scene is now full of whatever 'teeny-boppers' want to see and think is scary and frankly, they're not too discerning or finicky about what they watch, so long as it gives a good scare. For me, I wanted this movie to go deeper in every way. I wanted it to expand the relationship between the friends, to give some moral motivation to Luke's character and to hit harder at the sorrow and guilt he struggles with. This monster, too, was a little too heavy for this film. I loved the Norse Mythology-based explanation but would have liked to see more. Thought it was cool to see a world where such monsters still live and hold sway.
Great starter film for people not sure they want to watch horror, good setting and very claustrophobic which I loved.
And if you think they are, do you think the ritual was a punishment, a sacrifice or a consecration of the beast?
Many archaeological finds of swords in the Viking age are found in a wet context, but there is no proof (that I can find) of any rituals where swords are offered to the gods. Does anyone know if there is any ritual reason why these swords were thrown in lakes and bogs? The other explanation is that the sword were lost during the crossing of the lake or river, but I don't believe that many swords were just 'lost'
I would like to start working in the norse pantheon but would like a nice introduction ritual any suggestions?
When reading on viking usage of symbolism, I came across an offhand reference to the practice of mound-breach (Swedish "hΓΆgbrott", Norwegian "haugbrott"). I suspect "haugbrott" is the Norse term for it, but do you happen to know anything more about it? It seems to me that it was acceptable for clan members to retrieve artefacts from the burial goods, and thus gain power. That seemed odd to me at least.
Iβll be straightforward about this, Iβve been playing a lot of King of Dragon Pass lately and one of the mechanics, Quests, involve the re-enactment of stories from the mythology of the in-game Orlanthi people to gain various boons. Now I realize the world of the game is fictional, but it many of the cultural aspects of the game are heavily based on that of Germanic peoples. I also know that it was common for the Ancient Greeks to reenact legends in theatre for entertainment and as ritual when they made sacrifices to the gods before their plays. I was curious if the Norse, or more broadly Germanic peoples, would reenact their legends for ritual and/or entertainment.
Are there any connections between ash wednesday and the worship of Agni or Odin? When did the oddly pagan-seeming tradition of rubbing ashes on the forehead become an accepted christian practice?
Etymologically it seems acknowledged that the word Ignite comes from Agni, meaning that there was an obvious cultural intermingling of latin and sandskrit at some point, right?
Was there a way that the germanic people would recognize Wodensdag? Is there some kind of connection there? If vikings were visiting asia around 1000, or mixing culturally with vedics in europe a thousand years earlier, does any of that Ash-wearing practice pass around between them?
