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Loki God of Mischief

Classification: Jotun

Culture: Norse Germanic

Symbol: The Wheel

Sacred Stone: Jade

Sacred No: 12

 

Loki is the embodiment of ill intent in the Norse Mythology. And the sire of several entities hostile to the Aesir empire.

 

His is the son of the defeated Jotan King giant Fárbauti. Taken by Odin and raised in Asgard along side Thor the Thunder God.

 

Among his misdeeds he causes the death of the beloved son Balder.

Steals the golden locks of Thor’s beloved Sif.

With the Goddess AngrBoda the Bringer of Grief he fathers the Fenrir wolf. Who is prophesized to devour the All Father Odin at the time of Ragnarok.

 

The pairing would also produce the Mid-Gard Serpent who would kill Thor.

 

And Hela who would lead the forces of chaos.

 

At the coming of Ragnarok he would align with enemies of Asgard.

 

Loki is a shape-shifter who could take any form male or female. He is said to have given birth to the stallion Sleipnir.

 

His German name Lohe means fierce flame.

 

Name: AngrBoda the Bringer of Grief

Pantheon: Norse

Gender: Female

Known Aliases: Mother of Apocalypse, Bringer of Grief

Associated: Evil, Ragnarok

Classification: Demon

Hair: Green

Eyes: Brown

Unusual Features:

Magic Number: 3621

The Witch of Ironwood

 

In the Prose Edda, the giantess Angrboda is described as a witch living east of Midgard, the world of men, in a forest called Ironwood.

 

The giantess Angrboda, ‘the bringer of grief’ is described as having reddish hair, the colour of dried blood, and a muscular physique. Unsurprisingly she was also described as a fearsome she-warrior chieftain and a shapeshifter, able to take the form of a wolf.

 

She was also have been the leader of a wolf clan, and she is the mother of many of the wolves in her clan.

 

The first, with Loki was the great wolf Fenrir, who is destined to kill and devour Odin himself during Ragnarok, the Norse apocalypse.

 

 

The second child with Loki, was the serpent Jormungandr, also known as the Midgard serpent.

 

The final child of Loki and the giantess of grief was Hel, a giantess herself. Hel was said to have been half-giant, and half monster, with the bones on one half of her body completely exposed.

 

Name: Frigg The Mother of Gods

Pantheon: Norse, Germanic

Gender: Female

Known Aliases: The High Queen, She who is loved, Spouse

Associated: Life, Motherhood, Friday (Frija's Day)

Classification: Patron Goddess

Period of Worship: 3900 B.C.E-400 C.E.

Discipline: E Particle    

Hair: brown

Eyes: Green

Occupation: Queen

Martial Status: Married

Known Affiliations: The Aesir

Known Relatives: Odin (husband), Baldr (son), Thor (son), Loki (adoptive son)

Strength Class: 5

Super Human Abilities: Frigg possesses several superhuman abilities based on her highly evolved physiology. He is immune to disease and to regenerate damaged tissue making her virtually immortal.

Special Skills: Frigg has been trained in the ways of the Valkyrie, she is proficient in the use of bladed weapons, long spear, and fighting staff.

Accessories

History: Primarily worshipped in what is now southern Germany. She is the wife  of the All Father Odin. Her principle duties include the protection of life and motherhood, she traditionally takes up arms when Odin retires for the "Odin Sleep". She stand protectively at his side, sworn to defend the vulnerable king at all cost.

Frigg mothered Thor and Loki, as well as her own son Baldr. It was she who solicited a pledge to never bring harm to Baldr from all living things.

 

The Historian Paulus Diaconus mentions the goddess as the patroness of the Lombards.

 

Name: Thor Odinson – God of Thunder

 

Classification: God

 

Associated with Thunderstorms , Fertility

 

Culture: Norse Germanic

 

Pantheon : Aesir

 

Symbol: the thunderbolt, hammer

 

Sacred Tree: Oak

 

Celebration day: Thursdays

 

Sacred Element: Thorium

 

 

from the old Saxon thunar which would be translated by some to Donar his German name.

 

Thor is a hammer-wielding god associated with lightning, thunder, storms, sacred groves and trees, strength, the protection of mankind and also hallowing and fertility.

 

He is a member of the race of Aesir who come to us from the Taurus star system specifically the Asagar star.

 

He is the son of Odin who was seen as the all father and King of the Asgardians as well as Jorde who was the personification of the earth spirit.

 

 

He possesses several enchanted weapons including a Golden chariot drawn by two massive goats. The giant goats who drew Thor’s chariot were called Tanngniost and Tanngrisnir. Toothgnasher and Toothgrinder

 

They could regenerate overnight after being killed and eaten by Thor, so long as their bones remained undamaged.

 

And a belt, called Megingjörd which doubles his strength.

 

His throwing hammer named Mjolnir that always hits his mark and always returns to his hand.

 

 

In the edda he is described as the strongest of all the gods whom he protects along with humans against the ever-present threat of Giants.

 

At Ragnarök which is the Twilight of the gods he slays the Midgard serpent but himself dies as a result the poisons inflicted on him by the serpent.

 

In mythology it was Thor who men turned to for help in marriage as well as his protection for herds and  crops. His sacred tree was the Oak . And the Romans took him as an equivalent to Hercules or Jupiter. The 4th day of the week is named for this duty

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The symbolism of the dog loyalty Fidelity and protective vigilance are some of the diverse qualities described dogs. They are depicted on medieval tombs lying on the feet of their Masters and in portraits they represent similar devotion. Their faithlessness was sentimentalized by the Victorians. In ancient time the dog was as a Guardian associating universally with the underworld. In which it acted as both a guide and gatekeeper and thus we get the legend of Cerberus the terrifying 3 headed dog of Greek myth which guarded the entrance to Hades. Hands accompanied Hekate The Greek Goddess who haunted tombs and crossroads and to whom dogs were sacrificed.

 

Other sinister dogs included the Scandinavian infernal dog game and the black dog of Satan

usually the symbolism linking dogs with death is more positive period their companionship in life and their supposed knowledge of the spirit world suggested them as suitable guides to the afterlife. They appeared in this role as attributes of the Egyptian Anubis and the Mayan myth they carried souls across the River of the dead. The Dog Headed Aztec God led the sun through the nocturnal underworld and was reborn with it at dawn.

Dogs were often sacrificed as companions for the dead. Souls were passed to dogs more directly in the ancient Central Asian and Persian practice of feeding dead bodies to them. Dogs are often symbols up uncouthness and base urges such as greed and lust. The followers of dial genies were abusively called cynics which in Greek alludes to being doglike

on account of their surliness and content for society but they accept that the nickname as an app description for the role as moral watchdogs . Dogs symbolize carnal desire in brothel scene by Franz van Marys the elder in which a lady pours a man a glass of wine as two dogs copulate in the background. More positively dogs are an emblem of the Christian courage clergy watching the flocks of the Good Shepherd Christ. Dogs may symbolize the Dominican Friars funny lick nickname dominae canes which means hounds of the Lord

 

the ancient Celts associated dogs with healing hunters and with Warriors such as the Irish coup Chu Leon the hound of cooling. They were Guardian symbols in Japan and in China although they often had a demonic significance. The obedience of the dog is a symbol of adherence to the law yet Buddha said that those who lived like dogs would become them. In Buddhism and Hinduism dogs again appear as attributes of a death God yama

 

. The dog appears with divinatory symbolism, especially in Africa. Its intelligence made it a symbol of resourceful innovation and they were seen as the originate are or Steelers of fire

Name: Perkons

Thunder Wielder

 

 

Classification: Patron God

 

Associated: Thunder, Storms    

Culture: Prussian Lithuanian Latvian Indo-European

Region: Baltic

Sacred Color; Red

Sacred Number: 33

Element: Iron

Literature: Latvian Folk Myth

Symbol the Thunderbolt

 

God of thunder, and the second most important deity in the Baltic pantheon after Devas. In both Lithuanian and Latvian mythology, he is documented as the god of sky, thunder, lightning, storms, rain, fire, war, law, order, fertility, mountains, and oak trees.

 

Perkons is venerated at the bringer of rain and thus fertility. He is honored with wine, season meats and nuts.

 

In myth he appears as the Smith of Heaven armed with his many weapons, which he has forged, and uses to fight the devil for mankind.

 

Perkūnas is the god of lightning and thunder and storms. In a triad of gods Perkūnas symbolizes the creative forces (including vegetative), courage, success, the top of the world, the sky, rain, thunder, heavenly fire (lightning) and celestial elements, while Potrimpo, is involved with the seas, ground, crops, and cereals and Velnias/Patulas, with hell, and death.

 

Perkūnas pursues an opponent in the sky on a chariot, made from stone and fire Sometimes the chariot is made from red iron. It is harnessed by a pair (less often four or three) of red and white (or black and white) horses (sometimes goats

Perkūnas possesses many weapons. They include an axe or sledgehammer, stones, a sword, lightning bolts, a bow and arrows, a club, and an iron or fiery knife. Perkūnas is the creator of the weapons "the stone smith") or he is helped by the heavenly smith Televelis (Kalvelis).

 


Name: Kvasir

 

 

Associated: Wisdom

Culture: Germanic Norse

Classification: God

Literature: The Prose Edda

 

Kvasir (pronounced “KVAHSS-ir”) is a being who was created by the Aesir and Vanir gods and goddesses at the conclusion of the Aesir-Vanir War.

 

The war had ended with a truce. In the tale of the Mead of Poetry, whose storyline picks up where that of the Aesir-Vanir War leaves off, the deities sealed their peace treaty by coming together to produce an alcoholic drink by an ancient, communal method: everyone in the group chewed berries and spat out the resulting mush into a single vat. This liquid was then fermented. In this particular instance, the fermented liquid became the god Kvasir, whose name is surely related to Norwegian kvase and Russian kvas, both of which mean “fermented berry juice

 

Kvasir was the wisest of all beings. There was no question for which he did not have a ready and satisfying answer. He took up the life of a wanderer, dispensing his wisdom to all whom he met along the road. When he came to the house of two dwarves, Fjalar (“Deceiver” and Galar (“Screamer”, they killed him and drained his blood into three containers. They told the gods that Kvasir had suffocated from an excess of wisdom. The two dwarves then brewed mead by mixing Kvasir’s blood with honey – the Mead of Poetry.

 

 

a mead which imbues the drinker with skaldship and wisdom, and the spread of which eventually resulted in the introduction of poetry to mankind.



Name: Ymir

 

Known Aliases: The Frost King, The Sea Giant

 

Associated: The Sea

Culture: Germanic Norse Myth

Gender: Male

Classification: Giant

Element: Sea

 

 

Literature: The Prose Edda

Ymir as a primeval being who was born from venom that dripped from the icy rivers Elivagar and lived in the grassless void of Ginnungagap. is the ancestor of all jötnar.

Ymir birthed a male and female from the pits of his arms, and his legs together begat a six-headed being.

 

Ymir was slain by the gods Odin Vili and VE and his body was used as raw material for the creation of the world.  

 

They fashioned Earth from his flesh, from his blood the ocean, from his bones the mountains, from his hair the trees, from his brains the clouds, from his skull the heavens, and from his eyebrows the middle realm in which mankind lives,

 

The dwarfs were given life from his blood.

 


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