July For Loki Using 30 Days Of Deity Devotion Prompts, Day 2 How Did You Become First Aware Of Loki?

July for Loki using 30 Days of Deity Devotion prompts, Day 2 • How did you become first aware of Loki?

I can’t remember for the life of me. He’s always been there, as far as I can recall, since I was a little child. I probably first heard of him through the Norse myths my dad used to read to me, and Loki’s adventures were basically the only ones I wanted to hear about. My hero, I loved him instinctively from the first time I heard his name, and that love survived in my heart for many long years, till I first found out about modern Paganism and took my first steps on what would later become my Path. That moment, about 12 or 13 years ago, I distinctly felt Loki calling me, but I was too scared to answer his call, and too eager to find a goddess willing to guide me instead of a god, and I turned my back to him. A bold decision on my behalf, which brought me lots of gifts by following a Celtic path guided by an Morrigan, and yet something was missing. Someone was missing. Someone who was waiting patiently for me to finally See. And when I was finally tired enough to deny my innermost nature, I answered his call, almost 2 years ago, and here I am.

This! Louder for the people in the back!

Offerings

I don’t think a lot of witches and pagans in general realize that you can offer actions to your deities

Even though Offering a tomato is a one time thing,

Growing a tomato can be something for ages.

Every single time you water the plant, de-weed the area, etc, that can be an offering

These kinds of things are especially good when you are working in the city, or in a college dorm like I am.

Dedicate a walk to them. Or a meditation if that’s your thing.

Have a little cactus you care for in their name

Create poetry or read something

Of course he had.

this guy had the right idea

I forgot to post these here, bunch of Norse mythology pieces done for school. 

Thor: [to Loki, angrily] What do you think Sigyn would say if she were here?

Loki: [points to where Sigyn is standing]

Sigyn: [takes of picture of Loki] Neat!

Ok, Loki and Salmon? I mean.. what's not to love here?? 😍

[Bust of a grinning Loki hugging a salmon with a fish hook in the foreground and burnt fishing net in the background.]

“ –he [Loki] ran off and hid himself in a certain mountain; there he made a house with four doors, so that he could see out of the house in all directions. Often throughout the day he turned himself into the likeness of a salmon and hid himself in the place called Fránangr-Falls; then he would ponder what manner of wile the gods would devise to take him in the water-fall. But when he sat in the house, he took twine of linen and knitted meshes as a net is made since; but a fire burned before him. Then he saw that the Æsir were close upon him; and Odin had seen from Hlidskjálf where he was. He leaped up at once and out into the river, but cast the net into the fire. When the Æsir had come to the house, he went in first who was wisest of all, who is called Kvasir; and when he saw in the fire the white ash where the net had burned, then he perceived that that thing must be a device for catching fish, and told it to the Æsir.

Straightway they took hold, and made themselves a net after the pattern of the one which they perceived, by the burnt-out ashes, that Loki had made. When the net was ready, then the Æsir went to the river and cast the net into the fall; Thor held one end of the net, and all of the Æsir held the other, and they drew the net. But Loki darted ahead and lay down between two stones; they drew the net over him, and perceived that something living was in front of it. A second time they went up to the fall and cast out the net, having bound it to something so heavy that nothing should be able to pass under it. Then Loki swam ahead of the net; but when he saw that it was but a short distance to the sea, then he jumped up over the net-rope and ran into the fall. Now the Æsir saw where he went, and went up again to the fall and divided the company into two parts, but Thor waded along in mid-stream; and so they went out toward the sea.

Now Loki saw a choice of two courses: it was a mortal peril to dash out into the sea; but this was the second–to leap over the net again. And so he did: be leaped as swiftly as he could over the net-cord. Thor clutched at him and got hold of him, and he slipped in Thor’s hand, so that the hand stopped at the tail; and for this reason the salmon has a tapering back.” -GYLFAGINNING LOKI II ON REDBUBBLE