Some of the doors on Norwegian stave churches are this peculiar shape likely based on earlier doors for pagan temples. It is the same shape as some of the Gotland picture stones which feature images of the dead meeting Odin and of their deeds in life, often including boats. This shape, which is phallic, may represent a door to the world of the dead like the ones the Norse used in a ritual witnessed by the Arab Inn Fadlan. He says they raised a slave girl up on a door 🚪 peering over the door she said she could see her father and ancestors in he afterlife. Perhaps the phallic door is a symbol hat simultaneously penetrates the other world while opening a path to it for is - thereby allowing the living and the dead to communicate. #norse #asatru #necromancy #paganism #gotland #stave church #witchcraft #vikingspirit #heathenry #ibnfadlan https://www.instagram.com/survivethejive/p/BuoaADpgX6b/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=7rf07uv4ulja
