I am Muninn Grábjörnsson, and welcome to my little slice of the internet. This is my personal blog, with a loose focus on Norse polytheism. I'm mostly just going to be sharing things I find cool, interesting, funny, or important, and sometimes you might see my own writing, which is usually devotional poetry (#my writing).
About me:
🐺 I was born in 1995, you do the math.
⛈️ I'm a Norse polytheist, which most of my writing is about. My practice is animistic, and includes ancestor veneration, spirit veneration (husvættir and landvættir, primarily), and deity veneration.
🐦⬛ I have a pretty solid interest in mythology, nature, linguistics, and mathematics.
🎮 I love video games, though I don't play as much as I used to, so expect to see occasional posts about Fallout, Baldur's Gate 3, the Elder Scrolls series, and Valheim.
✏️ I've been slowly getting into solo TTRPGs, mainly Ironsworn and Iron Valley, so I may be posting about that on occasion.
This is an inclusive blog, and I believe heathenry is open to all. Folkish, fascists, bigots, and Nazis do not interact. I will call you out and I will block you. As is said in the Havamal, stanza 127:
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In the mystic meadow, the biggest drama of the day is between Old Mrs Hedgehog and the Faerie Princess, after Old Mrs Hedgehog refused to bake 27 strawberries for the faerie princess' ball due to a fight she was having with Friar Fox who owned the Strawberry fields
Friar Fox had insulted old Mrs. Hedgehog on the summer solstice, claiming she had been the one to break into his wine cellar the night before because he found a quill in there, when everyone in the meadow knew Old Mrs Hedgehog had been in the company of the Wise Owl that night. It was so rude that since that day, she's refused to buy his strawberrys
The thief was of course cousin Helga Hedgehog, Old Mrs Hedgehog's cousin from the frosted woods, you would know this if you had looked at the quill in the wine cellar, Helga always wore her bristles long, with raspberry dyed tips, The quill in the cellar was red. Friar Fox of course ignored this, saying it was red from the wine she had stolen, when as previously said, Old Mrs Hedgehog was with the Wise Owl all of that night
This is of course getting off topic, the real tea is as always with the Faerie Princess, who has since the ball refusal, called upon all her subjects to buy their baked goods from the Groundhogs, who bake a subpar blueberry cobbler, at best.
Last I saw Old Mrs Hedgehog, she was crying to the Oak Pixie about how Cornelius Rabbit had been calling her, saying she was behind on rent for her burrow and that he might have to find a new tenant since the Faerie princess had called for a boycott of her bakery
Does anyone have a favourite place to find all the stories about Loki from the lore? I need to refresh my memory of them, but can’t remember what all they are or where to find them. Even just a list of what to look for will help. So, yeah, thanks in advance.
Þrymskviða: Loki and Thor crossdress to get Mjolnir back
Reginsmál: Loki pisses off a dwarf and inadvertently causes the Volsung Saga
Lokasenna: Loki crashes a party and challenges the gods to a rap battle
Völuspá hin skamma: Loki eats a witch’s heart and becomes the “father of all monsters”
Skáldskaparmál: The abduction of Idunn by Thjazi, Loki tying his balls to a goat to entertain Skadi, the seal fight with Heimdall over Freyja’s necklace
Gylfaginning: The birth of Sleipnir, Loki’s binding, the visit to Útgarða-Loki
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Anybody else see the Progressive car insurance ads with Mayhem and think 'hello there Loki'? I honestly believe that entire ad campaign was inspired by Flame-hair. The gecko was cute but Mayhem is *hilarious*.
UPG? or coincidence? Why not both? LOL
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trying to piece together full thoughts on this, but I hate the way "folk magic" is conflated with morality online. folk magic, while often "for the folk", is not always ethical, not inherently anti-fascist, not virtuous by default. re: the amount of formulas in svartkonstböcker that revolve around controlling women.
Many people in the comments are saying “trauma”, but this is actually a very normal occurrence. It’s called Childhood Amnesia, and it’s a process which, as the brain reorganizes itself for cognitive thought that is developed in late childhood, it changes the Accessibility of those memories during recall. Many childhood memories are available to the person, but they will not be remembered during regular recall activity, you have to “trick” your brain into remembering with different tactics.
This is because there are two parts to memories - their encoding and their recall. The encoding determines their availability, their recall determines their accessibility. The reason why trauma memory and childhood amnesia are different is in this distinction. Trauma memory is often encoded differently, bypassing to the limbic system where it is stored as intrinsic memory. It can’t be recalled because it was never encoded. Childhood amnesia, however, seems to indicate that the memories are encoded, but we lose access to them as we age. This is most likely due to the development of brain structures that fundamentally change our encoding and recall of memory as we get older.
This is an important distinction, because trauma memory is “stored in the body”, i.e. you get triggers that send your body into a cascade of uncontrollable feelings, sensations and reactions. Whereas childhood memories won’t generally do that, they are just recalled at odd times with odd associations.
reblogging this because I’ve legit seen people freaking out when they realised they can’t remember some of their childhood, thinking they might have some repressed trauma.
that picture of the little boy holding a puppy and smiling with the writing on the bottom that says hi daddy this is my doggy chelsea isn't she cute i love you and the picture of the cat with the writing that says our michael... pet photos of all time
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Love it when you do a quiz and it’s obvious what the answers correlate to. U know what I mean. The quiz will be like… r u a mermaid or a vampire… and the questions are like
Do u like the ocean
1. Omg yes I love the ocean I could live there forever
2. It’s ok
3. Not a fan of the ocean
4. Fuck the ocean unless it’s made of blood which btw I love to drink
This is something that's been sitting in my drafts for a while and it's essentially; "Are we too focused on the gods? Or not enough?" which is something I think about from time to time. I have another draft of my personal cosmology that I'll post once I'm happy with it, but this post is an opinion and probably just some food for thought. So, let's go!
So, what sparked this? I think part of it is the fact that I started this journey in more witchy circles. The Witch of Wonderlust, MarshallWSL, Bente, ChaoticWitchAunt etc, and this post isn't to dunk on them in any way. I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for them but something most of these have in common is; they started worshipping gods/angels/things before going more into ancestral work, community based work, generally more.. I guess "down to earth" or "real" things, and I've asked myself why that is.
For me personally, I am wildly uncomfortable being perceived and I've also never owned any property so, openly practicing is limited to the inside of wherever I rent and the woods/mountains surrounding the place. I am very much a solitary practitioner that puts the gods kind of on top of the food chain. Now, I am aware that landvettir or land veneration and creating a bond with your local spirits is a good thing. Do I think it's necessary? No.
The reason for that is; I generally think relationships with spirits are transactional. If I don't plan on working with the gnomes in my yard or the spirit of who lived here before me, why would I venerate them? They survived before I got here, and they'll survive after I leave. Now, do I believe that I, as a practitioner, could get a better practice if I were to venerate them? Probably, but I don't know. And generally? I want that stuff to be on my terms, not the whims of whoever spirit lives here. If I ever end up actually owning a place with a garden or a yard, I will 100% start a relationship like that, but until that point I don't feel it's necessary when the gods provide what I need them to. Plant and animal allies are one thing, what I just talked about is another - see the difference?
Now, for the question I posed earlier. Do I think we're too focused on the gods sometimes? Yes, I think so. Especially in religions or belief systems that aren't polytheistic. I also think that some people (witchtok, yt shorts, IG "witches") rely on the gods (or front them) far more than really needed. Mundane before magickal is a saying for a reason and if you're neglecting the mundane, I don't really think the magickal can work properly. On the other hand, I think most practitioners could benefit from working with a deity (or multiple) as they're essentially the top dog of whatever domain you're trying to work within right.
As with everything; if you don't feel drawn to a deity, don't force it. And if you're not drawn to general spirits, don't force that either. I am a firm believer of figuring out things on your own terms but I also think it's interesting why people choose one over the other, as leaning either of them doesn't make you better than someone else. On the same line though, I generally don't really believe in being "chosen" by a deity. I don't think neither Freyja nor Skadi "chose" me in a formal sense, but more in a "that's my people" sense. And especially with the norse pantheon, then being more viewed as distant friends/cousins it makes more sense to me.
What are your experiences or opinions on this? Feel free to comment or DM!
In my practice, when it comes to veneration, it generally goes something like:
Ancestors first, especially the ones I knew (sorry great-great-grandpa, but I know my dad better lol)
Then the gods. Usually Thor, Odin, or Freyja, sometimes a general "to the Æsir". I may talk to a different deity for something specific (for instance, Hel to wish someone who's passed safe travels and warm lodgings).
And I do like to thank the vættir/sprits of the house, or the land if I'm outside, for letting me do my thing in their space. I think of them like roommates in my house, or if I'm out in nature, I consider it their property, and thank them for letting me be there peacefully.
That's kind of the order or "hierarchy" (for lack of a better term) when I do any venerations.