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Does Loki Count As A Chthonic God? Because I've Been Burning Incense For Him As An Offering, But I've

does Loki count as a chthonic god? because I've been burning incense for him as an offering, but I've read it somewhere (I can't remember where) that incense isn't a good offering for chthonic gods. what are your thoughts on the topic?

These take me forever to write up so have an audio clip of me prattling instead:

(Apologies for stumbling over my thoughts and for the audio quality. People are welcome to transcribe!)

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when sappho said "you may forget but let me tell you this: someone in some future time will think of us". when richard siken said "there are many names in history but none of them are ours". when carol ann duffy said "it matters how everyone dies". when oscar wilde said "i shall be lightning if you dare forget".


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Help y’all I need a list of the gods’ names in Elder and/or Younger Futhark.


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Gjelle's dolmen - a sägen from Söderslätt

Gjelle's Dolmen - A Sgen From Sdersltt

Spring (Östra Vemmenhög, Skåne) by Carl Conrad Dahlberg

"There once lived a giant wizard in Gislöv, his name was Gjelle. He was very old, and had endured many things in his lifetime; but when the church was built in Gislöv, and the church bells started ringing, he couldn't stand the noise, and moved away from there, and nobody knew where he went.

Many, many years thereafter, a ship sailed from Skåne to the East. When they had been sailing for a very long time, they entered a sea that was called Leverhavet ('liver sea'), because it looked like coagulated blood. There, the ship stopped next to an island, and even though it hadn't run aground, and even though they raised all sails, the ship remained in the same place that it had stopped.

In the night, the ship's crew saw a ghost in the shape of a sailor, and it asked them where they were going, and where they came from. One of the bosuns, who was a brave man from Blekinge, answered that they unfortunately had been driven there by the storm, and that they came from Skåne. "Right well," the ghost replied, "then please come with me and follow me to my master, who is residing on this island, because he wants to speak with someone from Skåne, and has been waiting to do so for a very long time. If you agree to meet him, know that you will never regret that journey." The bosun didn't need much time to think about the offer, but quickly agreed to follow the ghost.

They hadn't walked very far when they met a huge, frightful giant - old, blind, and with a long, gray beard. The giant asked the bosun where he lived. When the bosun answered "In Skåne,” just like he had done before, the giant asked him if he knew the village of Gislöv, and if he knew the daughter's of Sven Dyring, particularly the one of them who was called Märta. The giant asked if the bosun would be willing to go to her, tell her that old Gjelle is sending his greetings to her, and then also bring her some things that the giant wanted to give to her. The bosun said "Yes, all will be done according to your wishes, just as long as we're lucky enough to safely get away with our ship and leave this island."

"Don't doubt that you will," the giant responded, "all of you¹ will make a safe return to Skåne. Just take this box, and hand it to Sven Dyring's daughter, but be careful not to open the box beforehand to see what's inside it. If you follow my instructions faithfully and well, then you'll receive so much that you'll never want for anything. When you get back home to Gislöv, and have handed over the box, you should go to a large rock that lies down in the river on the western side of Gjelle's dolmen² in Gislöv, and look for a hole, in which you will find a key. Take this key and go to the stone that is placed in the middle of the roof on Gjelle's dolmen, put the key into the keyhole that you will find there, and say 'Mach open Gjelle's dolmen!' The stone will soon open for you, but I advised you to not look back."

The bosun thanked him for this advice, and happily accepted the giant's mission. Then he wanted to say goodbye to the giant and go back to the ship. But the giant had more to say: "Wait, I have questions that I want to ask you. Tell me, what's it like in Gislöv today? Are they still as strong as they were back in my days? Come here, and let me shake your hand." - The bosun almost offered his own hand, but the ghost whispered to him "Don't be a fool, use this instead," and handed him a five pointed, iron manure fork, which the giant squeezed so hard that it bent, believing that it was the bosun's hand, and said: "Well, they're quite strong; but they were much stronger in the olden days." Then he asked another question: " Do you get a good cereal harvest in Gislöv nowadays?" The bosun replied: "Yes."

[The giant asked:] "How much do you get from sowing a bushel³?" The bosun answered: "At least four barrels."

"That's satisfactory," said the giant, "but in my days, I got much more than that, because I plowed one ell deep, and sowed one quarter thick, so you better believe that there grew a fine cereal crop in the fields of Gislöv!

Back then I had a little girl, and she went and gathered plows, oxen, horses, plowmen and drivers in her apron, and carried them to me and said: 'Father! What are these tiny little things?' I answered her: 'Release them, my daughter, for they are the ones that will take over after us. Let them go.'

Other than that, I worked too hard carrying rocks west of Gislöv back in the days when I was still strong, and I got blind from it. Still, I would have left eleven memorials after me there, if I had been able to stay a little longer. But since the white⁴ bell men came to Gislöv, I could no longer live there in peace, but had to move here. When you get back to Gislöv, tell people that old Gjelle says hello. He's still alive, even though he's blind. But please, don't forget to give the box to Sven Dyring's daughter. If you do as I've told you, you can rest assured that both you and your crew will return home safely."

The bosun said goodbye to the giant and went back to the ship. As soon as he entered the deck, the most favourable winds carried the ship away from the island.

After a good journey, the unharmed crew went ashore in Hälsingborg. From there, the bosun walked to Gislöv to deliver the box; but when he came to Söderskog, and he was close enough to see the tip of Gislöv's church tower, he thought that it would be safe to open the box. He couldn't help himself, he had to see what was inside it. He opened the box, and found a large, costly, golden belt. After admiring the belt for quite some time, he got the idea to try and see if it would reach around one of the large oak trees in the forest. He stretched the belt out, and fastened it around the tree trunk. Then he stepped back to admire how beautifully it glimmered in the sunlight. But as he stood there, the oak was lifted out of the dirt and took off, with roots and crown, flying over hills and through valleys, and soon neither oak nor belt could be seen anymore, and it was easy to imagine what would have happened to Sven Dyring's Märta if she had fastened the belt around her waist.

The bosun was heavy-hearted and dispirited. He doubted that he would receive the reward that he had been promised. "But," he thought to himself "giving up is not an option. I have to try to do as I was told; who knows, it might work." Then he went to Gislöv, and to the rock that lies down in the river, where he found the hole and the key. Next, he went to Gjelle's dolmen, found the keyhole in the middle stone on the roof, put the key in it and said: "Mach open Gjelle's dolmen!" The dolmen opened up, and he saw such a massive pile of gold, silver and money inside it that he was shocked and cried out: "Cross in the name of Christ, there's so much silver here!" And just as he wanted to grab some of it, he turned, looking back to make sure that nobody could see what he was doing, and everything disappeared, and when he turned back to become a man of influence and take, as one says, gold by the handfuls, he saw nothing more than the hole on the middle stone that looked like a keyhole. But Sven Dyring's daughter, who never got the beautiful belt, went mad when the story came to light. Her family is still said to be members of the congregation [in Gislöv], and some of them are usually mentally deficient.

The pile of rocks, or the dolmen, has gotten its name from Gjelle the giant, who told the very same bosun that his wife was buried under Torsberg's dolmen, which stands in Gislöv's eastern field,⁵ and his children are buried under a pile of rocks on the meadows next to the beach, this pile is known as Mode's dolmen.

It is also said that a well-known witch lived in Gislöv in the heathen times, and she wanted to summon [supernatural powers] under Gjelle's dolmen to destroy it. But when she was summoning [the supernatural powers], and about to utter the last word, "Gjelle's dolmen," Gjelle, who was a mightier wizard, obfuscated her, so that she said "Mode's dolmen" instead, and it immediately fell down, and its rocks broke into pieces, which are still visible.

One time, many of the villagers from Gislöv brought masons to try and break the stones into even smaller pieces, creating holes that can still be seen here and there on the rocks; but when they were chipping away at the rocks, it seemed to them like the entire village of Gislöv was engulfed by flames. They abandoned the rocks and hurried home to save what little they could. When they had almost reached the village, a tiny man approached them, riding on a white gander. The little man had a red hat on his head, a black bit in the beak of the goose, and wide spurs, and he was riding at full speed. He laughed at the farmers, and they laughed back at him; but when they entered the village, they found that everything was in order, and that no harm had been done [to their homes].

Many hauntings and supernatural events are noticed at [Mode's] dolmen. It's very easy for travelers to get lost on the road that passes by it, and when that happens, you can hear a peculiar sound, like [the sound of] an infant. There are still people who can attest to this."

- Folklivet i Skytts härad, by Nicolovius

All of the ancient monuments mentioned in this sägen have unfortunately been destroyed. I haven't found any records of what they might have looked like, apart from this story. Below is a picture of a passage grave called Erkes dös that is located in Lilla Isie socken (= parish) a few kilometres south east of Gislöv.

Gjelle's Dolmen - A Sgen From Sdersltt

¹The giant is using a very old-fashioned, archaic language: "I skolen komma alla...", "Huru mycket fån I..." etc.

²It's possible that it was a passage grave, rather than a dolmen. Some places called "so and so's dös" (dös = dolmen) are passage graves. Since I'm not an archaeologist, I have chosen to go with the literal translation.

³The Swedish volume units skäppa (bushel) and tunna (barrel) are not the same size as their American or British equivalents. In fact, the exact volume of a skäppa varies a lot between different regions. I have opted not to include these discrepancies in the story, as they're completely irrelevant to the plot.

⁴In this context: Christian

⁵Vång is a regional word that can be translated into 'field' or 'meadow'


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2 years ago

my writing fundamentally changed forever ten years ago when i realized you could use sentence structure to control people’s heart rates. is this still forbidden knowledge or does everyone know it now