Terrible bragging about a birthday gift lol

Apr 24

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So, awhile back I mentioned that my husband did months of research and created a collection of Heathen charms and prayers for me. After he gave it to me for my birthday (and it was like being courted all over again; ^___^ though the man now knows more about Heathen lore than I do. Yesterday I was complaining that in the cultivation of virtue I’m my own worst enemy and he quotes the “Havamal” at me…in Old Norse. lol), I chose some art and a friend formatted it and I had some personal copies printed. This will never be available for sale. The art is for my personal devotional use only. The book is for my own use only but I can’t help but share my new Zauberbuch. It is…you know, I don’t have words for how incredibly moved, awed, and absolutely delighted I am by this. Look. it is awesome. ^_^

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Galina Krasskova has been a Heathen priest since 1995. She holds a Masters in Religious Studies (2009), a Masters in Medieval Studies (2019), has done extensive graduate work in Classics including teaching Latin, Roman History, and Greek and Roman Literature for the better part of a decade, and is currently pursuing a PhD in Theology. She is the managing editor of Walking the Worlds journal and has written over thirty books on Heathenry and Polytheism including "A Modern Guide to Heathenry" and "He is Frenzy: Collected Writings about Odin." In addition to her religious work, she is an accomplished artist who has shown all over the world and she currently runs a prayer card project available at wyrdcuriosities.etsy.com.

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  1. she111958 | April 24, 2024 at 11:38 AM

    That painting on the cover certainly is! Awesome! Susan Hintz-Epstein susan.hintz.epstein@gmail.com (518) 989-2018 home • (518) 719-6437 cell

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    • ganglerisgrove | April 24, 2024 at 11:40 AM

      It is. I don’t know who the artist is, but he or she is amazingly good. I keep a file of “favorite Deity images’ just to look at sometimes and meditate on and this is one of my favorites of Odin. I am thankful that this artist exists. The only reason I used it here is that this is not a commercial use. Let me see if I can find out who it is.

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  2. ganglerisgrove | April 24, 2024 at 11:45 AM

    I tried to find it but can’t make sense of google’s art search.

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    • Wyrd Designs | April 25, 2024 at 5:31 PM

      tineye has a reverse image search I find easier to use.

      So jealous!

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      • ganglerisgrove | April 25, 2024 at 5:33 PM

        I’ll have to give that site a try. google makes it very difficult to find the original artist. thanks!

        and yes…it’s an amazing collection. it’s a full magical and prayer system for our tradition. I knew in advance what he was working on, when he sequestered himself day after day, but I had no idea how potent the final result would be. 🙂

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      • Wyrd Designs | April 28, 2024 at 12:22 AM

        I’ve been slowly collecting amulet inscriptions anx charms as thry have invocations & prayer requests usually. but I don’t have too many yet, Sannion sounds like he’s done all that work

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  3. Kelly | April 24, 2024 at 12:51 PM

    That is one amazing present!

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  4. Guasón | April 24, 2024 at 1:05 PM

    That is an awesome picture of Odin. It begs the question though: whose eye is that?

    As we all know, Odin sacrificed His eye to drink from Mimir’s well. Does this mean that one of His ravens dived into the water to get it back? That kinda seems like cheating. I think there’s only two possibilities left: it’s Odin’s eye and this is a painting of the exact moment before the sacrifice of His eye is complete by having the eye be thrown into the well or that this is an eye of an enemy that Odin killed.

    I think it’s cooler to imagine that this is Odin mid sacrifice (sacrif-eye-ce?) and that it is an image of Odin essentially in the middle of grasping for wisdom. Very Odinic.

    Hail Odin! And hail Freyja, Frigga, Aphrodite, Eros, and Hera for maintaining your marriage with thoughtful acts of love!

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    • ganglerisgrove | April 24, 2024 at 1:47 PM

      don’t over think it. it’s an artist’s rendition of Odin. seriously, don’t overthink it. sometimes art is just that art, and a doorway to the divine.

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  5. Trish Deneen | April 24, 2024 at 3:51 PM

    What an incredibly beautiful gift. Happy belated birthday.

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  6. suzmuse | April 24, 2024 at 8:09 PM

    Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!

    That Sannion.

    🙂

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  7. Ursula | April 27, 2024 at 2:08 PM

    What a treasure! Truly a labor and gift of love!

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