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Bowynn Gods: Aetenn
Aetenn (Ae-ten) Aetenn is the god of arms, armor and armories. Sometimes Aetenn is called the ‘Ram-Crowned God’ as he bares ram horns on his head. At other times Aetenn is said to be truly crowned with a wreath of black berry leaves; their tiny thorns symbolizing protection. Despite the fact that his attributes deem to be of a warrior god, Aetenn is anything but a warrior. He is only the god that guards warrior's arms and armor, protects them and makes sure they are kept in good condition. He is also a god that blesses soldiers if they must go to war. Aetenn is a forest god, said to reside in the woodlands. He has no bed in Alaway (The nighttime home of the gods), opting for sleeping in the wild. Aetenn is also a drumming god. He and the god Drautmer are the gods that created drums and used them as a device of communication between camp sites of the first people, their drums echoing across the lands at the first sign of trouble. But also drumming musically around campfires for the people after a long day
While Aetenn is mainly a guardian god of soldiers and their arms and armor, he is also a god that guards other items if one asks him to. So, one can consider him almost a guardian of stock piles of whatever one desires. but he should not be asked to guard just any frivolous thing, instead it is best to ask Aetenn to protect what one prizes the most.
Sacred symbols to Aetenn are arms, such as spears, swords, knives, daggers, bows, arrows and such as well as armor, shields and helms. Drums are often dedicated to Aetenn or given as offerings, votive images or rams and bowls of black berries and libations of blackberry wine. At great rituals and ceremonies to Aetenn libations are held and poured from ram horns
Exhibition quality German hunting knife with chiseled silver mountings and sheath, stag handle. Late 19th or early 20th century.
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A phenomenal pair of gilded Gauntlets in gothic style for Emperor Maximilian I, attributed to Lorenz Helmschmid, Augsburg, Germany, ca. 1485, housed at the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.
