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Norse has a minion!

Skaði the Snowflaik

Norse
Legacy Name: Heathen

The

Common Experiment #699
Owner:

Dracona

Age: 12 years, 2 months, 6 days

Born: February 11th, 2012

Adopted: 12 years, 2 months, 6 days ago

Adopted: February 11th, 2012

Statistics

Level: 93
Strength: 92
Defense: 23
Speed: 20
Health: 23
HP: 23/23
Intelligence: 180
Books Read: 158
Food Eaten: 1
Job: Ardent Art Archivist

CREDITS

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helix (get it)
background by hipwallpaper
poem by Galina Krasskova
sacred animals by odinsvolk

Sacred Ground

I carry my Gods in my blood.
Wherever I step is sacred.
I call to life the divine fire hidden within my veins.
I am the rooted seed of a God in bloom.
Where can I walk, where They are not?
I carry my Gods within me.

My breath is Odin's breath
and only His exhalation connects me to life.
My lungs rise and fall at his whim and I suckle life from his lips
like a babe at its mother's breast.
His arms enfold me. He burns beneath my skin. His caress arouses.
The breath-cord binding us nourishes me. I see His ravens circling.

The pulse of my blood is Loki's heartbeat,
his fingers having stroked this cold flesh to life.
His whispering voice is always with me, teasing me
through the pumping rhythm of my blood.
He held my heart in his hand, willing it to unruly life. What joy it is
to kiss his dancing flame.
With no other God is burning quite as sweet.

My awareness is echoed in Hoenir's eyes,
quiet God, yet immensely wise though little spoken about.
Wit and will, conscious discernment,
these things He whispered to my flesh.
To see, to read, to wisely choose
from amongst the many threads my wanderings weave,
are but few of the gifts given by this God,
wisest of brothers though least understood.
His kiss upon my brow awoke the dragon of my mind.
I shall not forget. My body is holy ground.

Together I was formed, in thought, in fire,
descendant of the earth, of those first misshapen trees
raised to life by the touch of Gods lost in the exuberance
of Their own youth.
I am born of one, many times removed, who suckled at Audhumla's teat,
chilled by the brine of Ymir's flesh.
Ancient, this blood of mine, and young.
I am charged to remember:
Where I walk is sacred ground.
I carry my Gods within my flesh.

My favourite Song

BEAR:
The Bear is considered the greatest of all beasts, and are held sacred to Thor. Bears are considered to be similar in personality and temprement to humans as they are intelligent, curious, highly adaptable, brazen and persistant creatures, with an inate awareness of fairness and honour. A common favorite of berserkers and shape shifters, the Bear is often the totem spirit of those who are extraordinarily strong of body, mind, and soul.

BOAR:
Linked to both Freyr and Frejya, the boar is traditionally associated with protection from harm. As an warriors' symbol, its body often formed the crest on helmets representing a potent sign of protection and ferocity in battle. The Wild Boar is the mightiest of the totem amimals of the Vanir. The Boar first taught mankind the arts of agriculture by showing us how to plough the Earth before "sowing" seeds by rooting up the ground with his tusks.

BOVINE:
Agression and strength werehighly valued vitues to to Warrior Germanic tribes, Qualities assosiated with their most potent animal totem symbols. The untamed bull was venterated in all parts of Europe settled by the Germanic peoples, although its warlike connotations were tempered by its symbolic link to fertility and agricultural plenty that was assosiated with its counterpart the Ox.

DRAGON:
The mighty Dragon is the dweller of the burial mound, and the physical and psychic embodiment the Earths natural powers of fertility. Representative of natural electromagnetic Earth energy, pictured as slithering across the skin of the earth, As the great serpent guardian of gold, the Dragon has been closely assosiated with unseen power, fertility, protection and esoteric wisdom.

EAGLE:
The Eagle is considered the greatest of all birds, and is held sacred to Odin. Ancient tradition denotes that the Eagle's scream portends the birth of a heroic soul, while the mightiest of eagles sits atop the World Tree - Yggdrasil and represents the uppermost aspects of the conscious mind and is the ultimate in spiritual attainment, embodied in the Noble soul.

HORSE:
The Sacred Horse is a potent symbol of intelligence, speed, grace, strength, virality, and fertillity. Its flowing mane representing the brilliant rays of the sun as the Horse is the beast which carries the wagons of the Sun and the Moon across the sky. Images of Horses appear on many early Bronze Age rock carvings depicting ancient scences of fertillity rights. The Stallion is held especially sacred to Freyr and Wotan, who would sometimes take residence in the body of a one of the Horses kept at their temples. These Horses contained cosmic wisdom and were consulted by priests who would decypher their neighs and snorts in divinity rites.

RABBIT:
The motif of the rabbit is held sacred to Idunna in her contenental aspect of Eostara / Ostara, Goddess of the spring and renewer of life. As her totem animal the rabbit became a potent fertillity symbol in ancient times due to the rabbits well known ability to multiply rapidly.

RAVEN:
The Raven is most closely associated with Odin, and as such, are birds of cunning, swift moving intelligence, esoteric wisdom, victory, war and death. Odin's two ravens, named Huginn and Muninn (translated as "thought" and "memory" respectively) sit at each of his shoulders and whisper in his ears all they see and hear. Shamanically, they represent the mind of the seer, flying silently through the 9 worlds of the universe, gathering hidden knowledge, gaining in wisdom, insight and inspiration. As birds of omens, the flight of ravens were used in predicting the future, while their harsh cries foretold the outcome of battles. Carrion birds associated with death, ravens will accompany the souls of the dead to the various afterworlds, and as such are blessed with the clear vision of the mysteries of life, death and rebirth. Under the raven banners, the Viking invaders were said to be invincible against the English armies.

STAG:
the Stag is a beast of noblility and Freyrs symbolic totem animal. The symbol of the Stag went beyond its obvious Maleness and agressive qualities; the splayed antlers associated with the king of the forest because of the similaritiy to branch growth. And, like the decidious species of trees, the annual shedding of antlers in spring and autum made the Stag the embodiment of the cylical growth-decay-growth of nature. Along with the Wild Boar, the Stag was the most prized quarry of hunters.

WOLF:
The Wolf is the traditional totem spirit and symbol of the hunter,warrior and magician. As such, the Wolf presents to us its dual nature of nurturing and destruction. On one side, the Wolf is the living embodyment of fury, chaos, and brute wildness. In contrast, the symbol of the wolf also represents one of the most intelligent, loyal, and sociable of animals, living and hunting in a co-operative family based pack. While the wildness of the wolf is its greatest strength, it is its' intelligence that is the wolfs' best asset which will temper, balance, and direct its feirce nature into positive action