#letter beads

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Instead of only collecting trinkets, I've now also USED them.

i wanted to share my prayer fidgets!

it took me a long time to figure out how to pray, but these things help immensely.

i need to make wayy more, but anyway: to make one, i focus on the deity it's for, and if they're norse i go look up their kennings and choose the ones most meaningful to me personally. i can also use modern spg kennings or make up my own, but the traditional ones are a good starting point where they exist. i decide on what sentence or words i want the long part to say, then i choose a color scheme and bead up the whole thing. i start with the deities name three times in a little loop that i can later hold it with. if they have multiple names i can also mix it up. then at the end, i add a fitting charm. to pray, i stand at the open window and read the words out loud (or in my mind), starting at the name repeats. then i wrap it around my hand and can hold on to it and fidget while i talk. having a start to a prayer like that really helps me get into the right mindspace for praying rather than overthinking and not knowing what to say, and having something to hold that also signifies a connection has proven very beneficial. maybe this can help someone else!

i also wanted to share which words i chose and how they look because they are very beautiful, so let me type out the words.

saga, saga, saga - seer and storyteller on the sunken bank. (colors: black, white, silver and blue. charm: sanddollar and key.)

loki, loki, loki - cunning-wise loki, father of monsters, the bound god. (colors: black, white, red, green, purple, gold. charm: some sort of knot.)

demon, devil, lucifer - questioner, opener, fallen angel, serpent dragon. (colors: black, white, red, yellow, silver, gold. charm: upside-down cross.)

hel, hel, hel - concealer, protector and keeper of the dead. (colors: black, white, silver. charm: skull and ankh.)

odin, odin, odin - gallows burden, god of runes, masked one, allfather. (colors: black, white, red, purple, blue, silver. charm: raven skull.)

idunn, idunn, idunn - ancient aesirs lady, keeper of the orchard, with wisdom of the earth. (colors: black, white, yellow, gold. charm: apple.)

freyr, yngvi, freyr - god of seasons, peaceful king. (colors: black, green, orange, yellow, gold. charm: crown.)

last souvenir from icon bazaar: the animated alphabet "baby face"! you're meant to arrange the letter beads and smaller beads like so:

i'd make my own message here if tumblr's image arranging feature wasn't like pulling teeth

baby face (with alt versions for light/dark backgrounds)

icon bazaar's animated alphabets