I focus on at least six of them on a regular basis and invoke the rest as the occasion or situation demands.
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Meet My Gods
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I focus on at least six of them on a regular basis and invoke the rest as the occasion or situation demands.
Which 6 do you work with most often?
Twilight Hue
Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
My God is Thor at the bus stop.
Odin, Thor, Loki, Tyr, Freya, Freyr.
Can you tell me more about Tyr and Freyr? I don't know much about them.
Interesting! I had no idea that anybody invokes Ymir.
He isn't one I have invoked personally for one on one work, but I've treated him as an honored Ancestor/Spirit; as he is the bodily foundation of the Universe.
I'll start with Tyr:
He is a God that is depicted as being Valorous, and often presides over the Germanic Legal assembly that happened once a year, the Thing. This also equates him with Law and Justice. He is often considered the son of a Giant, and his most famous myth involves the binding of Fenrir, in which he loses his hand after placing it in the beasts mouth as assurance of the Gods good intentions (which were far from it). It is stated that he is killed by Fenrir during Ragnarok in part for this treachery. According to the Romans, they equated Him with Mars, and would often refer to him as Mars Thingus (Mars of the Thing). There is scholarly discussion that he may have held a much more central role in the Germanic myths, before being usurped by Odin. This is due to the number and frequency of place names involving Him.
Freyr on the other hand (ba dum tss). Is considered an agriculture and fertility God, who is often portrayed as having a large erect phallus. He also holds sway over wealth, peace and prosperity. He is one of the Tribe of Vanir deities who is traded at the conclusion of the Æsir Vanir war (His sister Freya being the other trade). One of his alternate names (and possibly true name, Freyr means Lord) is Yngvi. The current Swedish or Norwegian (I forget which) kings are said to be his descendants from the Yngling clan. His mount is the Golden Bristled boar Gullinbursti, and a ship that can be folded into ones pocket, Skithblathnir. His singular remaining myth is that of his wooing of the giantess Gerthr. He gives up his sword (which fights on its own), in order to win her over. Due to this, during the events of Ragnarok, he is relegated to fighting the Giants with a sharpened antler; where he is felled by the fire giant Surtr.
Have you seen the Netflix series Ragnarok? So far there's two seasons of six episodes each, season three is coming out. It's really pretty interesting. Briefly, the Gods Thor, Loki, Freya and Tyr are modern human incarnations. The series takes place in a fictional Norwegian town called Edda. There are of course the antagonists who are four Jötnar in human form. Thor is incarnated as a handsome 18 year old high school boy (actor David Stakston) who's very mild-mannered and concerned for others. He's at first unaware of who he is. As the story progresses he regains some of his powers, thanks to a völva in the form of an elderly human woman, forges Mjöllnir and starts to battle the Jötnar.
I'm a bit behind my time in adding ... Odin is also in a human incarnation.
