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poeticnorth · 1 year

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Wrote a Hymn to Rán (Well, I've written three so far, but this is the one I'm sharing as part of an ongoing project)

#north sea poet #heathenry #poetry #my poetry #nico solheim-davidson #my own poetry #heathen #norse mythology #my poem #rán and ægir #rán goddess #rán #goddess of the sea #sea goddess #devotional poetry #devotional #north sea #the north sea

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drowningwitchdreams · 10 months

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Another song for the Rán playlist

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imprvdente · 1 year

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@tmvoldemort . 𝐆𝐎𝐃𝐃𝐄𝐒𝐒 𝐀𝐔 𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐄𝐑 𝐂𝐀𝐋𝐋

An eerie vision stepped out of the cold waves, long blue hair trickling down her back. Water flowed against her skin to return to the Ocean, leaving little droplets behind. Rán looked ageless, wild, and most importantly... angry.

“You have been trying very hard to catch my attention,” she told the hooded silhouette standing on the beach, “well, now you have it.” Her voice was menacing, like a storm brewing on the horizon. Calm and yet implacable.

“It is not very wise, to anger a Goddess. Speak before I decide to punish you for the mayhem you have caused.”

#hope this works!#&(Voldemort)#Fish (Rán)#closed starter #goddess AU #historical verse #tmvoldemort

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sol-saga · 9 months

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Aegir - God of The Ocean Ægir, Hlér or Gymir is the Norse God of The Sea and Ocean. He is associated with the tumultuous and unpredictable nature of the water and the brewing of ale. He is a gracious and hospitable host though he is formidable when crossed. Aegir is considered jötnar (giant) but is still associated with the gods and invited to feasts. His wife is Rán, Goddess of the Sea. They share nine daughters; the nine waves.

#aegir #norse mythology #norse gods #own #blue #blue aesthetic #ocean #ocean aesthetic #pirate aesthetic

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sarenth · 3 months

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Hail to the Gods of the Waters

Hail Njörðr! Hail Rán! Hail Ægir! Hail to the Nine Undine Goddesses! Thank you for the bounty of the sea, of life that swims and strains Thank you for the sweat of fishermen, the strong meat of the oceans That raise up from the depths and nourish us Thank you, Holy Ones. Hail to the Gods of the Seas, the Oceans, the Rivers, the Lakes, and the Streams! Hail to the Gods of the Waters,…

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experimentjr · 6 months

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EIR, THE PACIFIST IS REDESIGNED

The Valkyrie known as "the purest" and "the pacifist" was finally redesigned!!! Known as the goddess of healing and has a seat in the hall of Vingólf.

She now finally looks like a norse healer!

In her living days, Eir had always been a care and kind soul, always treating with compassion even the most dangerous of creatures, befriending everyone that she crossed path with, and that reflrected on her village, filled with the most of amazing people. From the littlelest of elves to the largest of ogres and she managed to not only make peace among the villagers, but also between other villages and kingdoms, which evolved into such a gigantic kingdom of peace, it was used as reference for other villages and kingdoms inside AND outside Midgard. The news of Eir "The Pacifist" spread like fire, but one person did not like all this mixing of races and species, and that was Eir's supposedly best friend and right hand.

The man couldn't for his life accept any non humans and his so called "best friend" title was nothing more than a way to raise into power. His plan of assassinating Eir took place in her own room, at the dead of night and the culprit was none other than the monsters she wholeheartedly let inside her kingdom, or so the villagers heard from the right hand man. That led into an all out war against the magical creatures and the banning of them, making it a human-only kingdom.

As for Eir, she couldn't go to Valhalla neither Fólkvangr due to the way she died, but the gods were so impressed with her work in life, they gifted her the most incredible items in her journey to Helheim. Through the cold desert of Helheim, she never ever doubt her friend's trust, but instead, blamed herself for making him hate her and knew she would spent eternity with the guilt of losing her most closest friend, but her good heart and kindness led her to be welcomed to Helheim with utmost honors by not only Helgeisten, but Rán and Gefjon, deities of the dead, that gifted her with the eyes of the deities, able to go and see through all realms and inbetweens.

After finalling being able to return to Midgard, now as a Valkyrie, she wanted to see her friend and apologize for being such a bad friend to him, but upon witnessing her friend's true intentions, she cried rivers, blaming herself for not noticing her friend in his dark path, and flooded the surroundings of the kingdom, protecting the creatures from townspeople and creating a lake around her old kingdom. After the demise of the kingdom and death of the king in battle, she herself took him to Valhalla.

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cipher-the-sidhe · 7 months

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Training Challenge 1: introduce your rider - Welcome to Thisby!

@thescorpioracesfestival

Branwen McCurley has always known that, one day, she would drown.

Stormy green-grey eyes had looked out to the cold, haunted sea of the Galway coastline and had dreamed of manes mixing with the foam capped waves. The sound of equine screams sang to her from the water, whispering of monsters that her own island tried its best to forget lurked in the deep. The water horses were there, but they would not come up on Galway’s shores. Not now.

Thisby island was known for its capaill usice, and for the blood soaked beaches it celebrated in November. As soon as she was old enough, Bran took her savings from working at her uncle’s pub and boarded a one-way boat to the island, eyes fixed on the water. She arrived in September. By the end of October she had a blue-roan capaill of her own. The water horse had come to her as if she’d been waiting for Bran to arrive, trudging up onto the shore on a far corner early in the morning and putting up no fight at all when Bran had slipped a rope over her and led her further ashore to her tiny, modest barn on the cliffs.

They had an understanding. Never once did Bran think of her capaill as a horse. She couldn’t see her as anything other than what she was, and in those sea-silver eyes there was the same understanding that Bran had brought with her: one day, Bran would drown, and it’d be the capaill that brought her to it. So the girl had named her Rán, for the goddess of the dead at sea, and that was that.

Six years later, the lass and the capaill emerge from their cliff side isolation to join the Scorpio Races. Will this first race be the one where Rán pulls her into the Scorpio sea for good? The way Bran sees it, this can only end one of two ways: either they win, or she dies.

#tsrf2023 #the scorpio races #thescorpioracesfestival

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initial-lime · 2 months

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On my recent topic of norse paganism, I thought I ought to mention that my personal choice of deity is Rán, goddess of the drowned

This is far from a recent flight of fancy, return me to the muddy peat bogs. I beg

#hunters grave

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nackros · 22 days

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𝑯𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒄𝒂𝒏𝒐𝒏. ⸻ goddesshood.

⸻ coming into her goddesshood was rather alarming for her. sure, she had those memories from the time she was an infant until about the age of five or so, but coming into them thirteen years later after thinking she was some normal woman was terrifying. wondering why she was so much more at home in the water and honestly was a great swimmer from a very young age. could hold her breath underwater for very long periods of time as well. it also doesn't help her feel like she doesn't belong. feeling more out of place than usual knowing she is a reincarnated goddess. having those memories of rán and what she dealt with.

she is very much lily with the powers and memories of rán. having the ability to shift into a merfolk/siren type form when in water. the ability to also to talk to sea creatures or really any water treading creature. she enjoys talking to frogs more than anything else. they have funny stories. dolphins are quite interesting to talk to. they are highly intelligent creatures and she learns more from them than other humans.

she chronicles those memories down in journals as much as she has time. coming into this, she can not really age. even though she celebrates her birthdays with her parents, she keeps it a secret and just celebrates them anyway. to keep her parents happy. she will likely not say anything to anyone unless she can fully trust them or is close to them in some way. other higher beings or people who can see what she truly is can easily call her out. however, she will deny in public but will tell them the truth in private. she is immortal and she is afraid to fall for a mortal (doesn't mean it isn't possible. angst, people). ⸻

#┊ ˚ ༘♡ ⋆｡˚ ❀ ‘ know more about her / headcanons ’#; headcanons

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gefdreamsofthesea · 3 months

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I bought the Norse Goddess Rune Oracle, which is surprisingly not the worst product on runes or the goddesses I have experienced. It doesn't sugarcoat Rindr or Gerda's stories. I many of the keywords and feel like the rune associations generally match my understanding of the goddesses. She includes cards for reversed or "merkstave" runes, you can remove them from the deck but they also have goddesses associated with them. (Ex. Laguz reversed is represented by Rán)

I like that the cards are edged in red as a nod to "staining" the runes (would not recommend staining your cards).

I feel like a lot of folks will be turned off by the....cartoonish....art and tbh I was too but now I'm attached to it. I feel like I really judged this deck based on its box art (and honestly I think they could've chosen almost any other image).

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poeticnorth · 1 year

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Oops, more psychopomps.

#north sea poet #heathenry #heathen #norse mythology #rán and ægir #rán goddess #rán #ægir

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drowningwitchdreams · 2 months

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Rán gets a mention in D'aulaire's Book of Norse Myths (yes, they have a Norse one as well). It refers to her as an "evil witch," which I am not a fan of, but I was surprised she got a mention at all.

#Rán #goddess Rán #goddess Ran #D'aulaire's Book of Norse Myths #Norse pantheon #Norse folklore #Norse mythology

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imprvdente · 1 year

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@theresastargirl sent: kissing your lover under the night sky while stargazing . from: ↪ 𝑲𝑰𝑺𝑺 ﹠ ᵀᴱᴸᴸ .

The night sky always looked more impressive at sea. It was the sky Ràn knew best, the one she had seen all her life. Dark as ink, twirling strangely into the water as if the earth and the sky was only one. The stars were reflected in the waves, like little lights floating in the depth.

She always had a soft spot for pirates, and she had the softest spot for Captain Redd. Maybe that was why she cupped her chin in her hand, and pressed a kiss on her lips. Sailors were strange creatures, they loved her despite her anger and her violence, they kept returning through storms and whirlpool. How strange indeed, but how beautiful too. The kind of devotion only a Goddess could truly appreciate, and reward with a rare, precious gift like this.

A simple kiss.

#&(Ophelia)#Fish (Rán)#goddess au #historical verse #(queue)#fish replies #theresastargirl

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miirshroom · 4 months

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Elden Ring, Dark Souls, and the Sun God

Dissecting the names of FromSoft characters and locations for amusing results. "Ra" is an Egyptian god of the sun, and the use of this two letter word string shows up in some interesting contexts in FromSoftware's naming conventions. Heavy use of Wikipedia and Wiktionary.

Radagon = Ra Dagon

Dagon was a Syrian god of prosperity worshiped at the middle Euphrates who is sometimes incorrectly identified as a god of grain/agriculture (i.e. is actually grain AND a lot more). Dagon is also a name co-opted by Lovecraft for the fish deity in 'Shadow over Innsmouth'. It is thus implied that "Radagon" is a syncretization of Ra and Dagon, similar to how Ra was syncretized with Horus as Ra-Horakhty or with Amun as Amun-Ra during certain periods of history in Egypt.

Radahn = Ra Dahn (Ra, ruler of the world)

Dahn is an English form of the Scottish name "Domhnall" meaning Ruler of the World. There is an NPC in Dark Souls named 'Domhnall of Zena'.

Ranni = Ra nni = Rán Ni

Incredibly, there is at least one use of "nni" as an alternate spelling of a Sicilian word meaning "us" for the overall phrase "Ra us" (or with better grammar "We are Ra"). Which makes sense in context since Ranni's Age of Stars is about becoming a star and the sun is a star. Rán is Norse goddess of the sea, who catches men in her net and drowns them (and once loaned her net to Loki - who took credit for inventing the net). "Ni" can mean many things - in Welsh alone it means both "us/we" AND "not". In German/Norse it also means "not". "Ni" means "two" or "towards" in Japanese and "two" in Atong Indian. As a sum total, a name expressing a lot of duality.

In the languages of Malaysia and New Guinea "ni" means "water". It is also an abbreviation for elemental Nickel.

Raya Lucaria = Ra Ya Lucaria (Festival of the Grove in affirmation of Ra)

This one has layers. There's the interpretation above where "Lucaria" is a straightforward term borrowed from a Roman festival and "ya" or "ja" is a common word for "yes" in multiple languages. It is not farfetched to think that the institution originally had closer ties to the sun than the moon - there is a sun motif in the Debate Parlour, on elevators, and on the Telescope item. The Japanese Kanji blur together the words "Raya Lucaria" such that レアル` includes Rayalu and is pronounced more like "real". Despite there being kanji available for the "ya" sound.

One meaning of や (ya) is a specific nuance of "and", as in "the Academy of Ra and the Festival of the Grove, among other things". Another is the hiragana spelling of 矢, which can mean "arrow" or "wedge used to break hard objects such as wood or stone" - causing Raya to mean "Ra's arrow" or "Ra's axe/chisel", perhaps. Additional hiragana uses include 屋 (house), 八 (eight), and 輻 (spoke of a wheel), which has a great synergy with something I have been working with for a while. This being that Radagon's time at Raya Lucaria began during the eighth house of a zodiac wheel that describes the history of the Lands Between. Likely Scorpio, if the start point is considered to be Aries, although it could also be Leo from a start point of Capricorn (more on that in further names to follow).

Siofra = Siof Ra (Sheep Ra)

Acknowledging that that "síofra" is also an entire word meaning "changeling", "elf", or "weakling" in Irish, "siöf" is a word meaning "sheep" in the nearly extinct Germanic language of Vilamovian.

Yura = Yu Ra

"you Ra" is funny, but not very helpful. However, Yu the Great was a Chinese sage-king (more of a mythical figure) known for a great feat of flood control somewhere around 3000-2000 BCE

Eleonora = Ele Ono Ra

"Ele" means "firewood" in Abure - a language native to the Ivory Coast. In Finnish it means "gesture" or "sign". It is "eel" in Middle English and "oil" in Old English, and "she" or "wing" in Old French. Also has some associations with "hand" or "foreign person" or "country" in Turkish.

"Ono" is Czech for "id" of psychoanalysis (so called "the impulsive (and unconscious) part of [a] psyche that responds directly and immediately to basic urges, needs, and desires"). And in Japanese can mean "ax" or a pronoun for "oneself", or as a name means "small field". It is also proto-polynesian for the number 6.

So "Ele Ono Ra" is the "female sign of the unconscious desires of Ra" and also has connotations of firewood doused in oil.

Another potential reading is "E Leo No Ra". "E" is a very flexible sound that variously means "and", "the", "of", etc. It is the 5th letter of the Latin alphabet as "Leo" would be the 5th sign of a zodiac beginning with Aries. The full phrase might be "And Leo (5th sign of zodiac) not of the sun". Which - taken in combination with the use of "6" (matching 6th zodiac sign of Virgo) in the first interpretation - this gets into the really complicated thing where the wheel of Vedic astrology based on the position of the moon lags behind Western (i.e. Greek) astrology.

Zorayas = Zo Ra Yas

There are many ways to break up this name - but for simplicity I focus on the "Ra" version. "Zo" is a language spoken in Myanmar and India, but also the prefix "zo-" generally means "of or relating to animals" (derived from Greek). The most likely meaning of "Yas" in context is the Turkish "mourning" which was derived from proto-Turkish "damage, loss; shame". Therefore an overall meaning something like "animal of Ra's mourning".

In the Aleut (Alaskan area) language "Yas" can mean "reef of rocks at or near surface", and in Navajo it is a word for wet snow.

There are notable uses of "Ra" as a suffix showing up in Dark Souls. It is a game with the catchphrase "Praise the sun", afterall.

[DS1 & DS3] Astora = Asto Ra (Assisting Ra)

"Asto" is Latin and means "assist" or "assisting". Notable characters from Astora: Blacksmith Andre, Solaire, Fire keeper Anastacia, Knight Oscar, Undead Prince Ricard, Anri of Astora. All appear in DS1 except Anri who appears in DS3.

Anri is an anagram of "Rani" which is rather similar to "Ranni" and yet as demonstrated above there would be a significant difference between the declarative "Rán, i", and the more "yes, but also no" nature of "Rán ni".

[DS3] Shira = Shi Ra (Temporarily channeling the spirit of the deceased Ra)

"Shi" has meanings associated with death in both Chinese and Japanese. The Chinese version of "shi" is a "ceremonial 'personator' who represented a dead relative during ancient Chinese ancestral sacrifices". These are ceremonies with food and drink where the living worship the dead and the dead bless the living. On the other hand, there are a lot of Chinese kanji that are pronounced with "shi" with different inflections - could be that any of those is relevant.

[DS2] Nashandra = Nash and Ra (By the Ash Tree and Ra)

Could be a play on words here of "Ashen" tree, considering that the player character of the following game (DS3) is called "Ashen One".

[DS1] Capra = Cap Ra

"Cap" is an abbreviation derived from "captain". It is also the abbreviation of "Capricorn" - which is the chronological start of the zodiac theme used in most of FromSoft worldbuilding, as indicated in Armored Core V. The Capra demon is a humanoid with a bull head, which resembles Mnevis, the black bull god who was worshiped in Heliopolis and later assimilated as the "personality of Ra".

[DS1] Ciaran = Cía Rán = Ciar An

It's a Ra adjacent name. The meaning of "Cía Rán" would be something like "who is Rán?", where "cía" is from Old Irish. "Ciar" is a Spanish word meaning "to reverse the direction (of a boat)". "An" has entirely too many meanings, though a common one in French and other languages is "year". Which makes sense in the context that this this character is associated with the Artorius DLC about travelling to the past and the whole Souls series of games is about the Argo Navis sailing in search of the Golden Fleece (the story tied to zodiac Aries).

#Elden Ring #Dark Souls #FromSoftware Meta-Narrative #“Re” is an alternate form of “Ra” but I'm not going to get into that now #You can see mountains to the north of the Shaded Castle and did you know Astora is to the south of Dark Souls setting #May have missed some and there are other names with “Ra” embedded in such a way that it won't split out well #linguistic analysis

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p5x-theories · 4 months

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I would give Closer Rán. Norse goddess of the sea and a name connected with plundering and theft nice tie back to a pirate princess I think.

Ooo, yeah, I see where you're coming from with her! That'd be a fun one for sure.

#askmarietheapprentice #theories #closer

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notthesomefather · 2 years

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Prayer for the Lady of the Net

Goddess of the unknowable sea; Mother of the nine waves; Aegir’s bride; Ruler of dark depths, wild and free. Ran, we honor your beauty and might. In your name, we will face the unknown; We will sail on until morning light. If we’re lost, may rising tides guide us. May your net catch us and bring us home; To walls of coral and skies of foam.

It's no secret I'm a huge fan of the heathen goddess Rán. I've almost drowned three times in my life and each time I was scooped up and saved, so I tend to have a very different view of her net than most writing I've seen. I am grateful for Rán's ongoing protection and the awe she inspires in me every time I'm in dark water. I think about her when I study deep-sea critters and when I try to ensure my waste/recycling doesn't end up in the ocean.

I love you, Rán!

#ran #heathen #asatru #prayers #norse pagan #pagan #nordic #norse

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