Devotional blog dedicated to the Goddess Sigyn offering support to those who are "holding the bowl" within difficult relationships.
[Sigyn] is the epitome of all things healing and good. She is deafening, thunderous, world-shattering strength; and at the same time, She is sweet, patient, gracious tenderness.
People forget that Sigyn is Constancy
She could stop your existance if she wills it.She could tear your atoms apart and just collapse like a dying star.She could stop life and then re-start it.She could do the impossible by the flick of her wrist.
But she won’t.Because she’s Sigyn.
Ok, so I’m at the point with Sigyn that I know everything I can know about the few times she is mentioned. What I want to know is are there any of you that have UPG that you’d be willing to share? On my end I associated her with water and earth, but specifically earth that’s near water. She also mentioned liking coral, and dolphins.
My personal experience with Sigyn is an association with lavender in everything. from candles to incense. She is associated with rose quartz (Known for helping one’s compassion) and amethyst (inspiration and creativity.)
She is very patient and can be understanding of your flaws and circumstances of worship. I have not had her be angry at me but her sadness at my decisions and lies has been reprimending enough (Its terrible to me, to be the reason she is sad 😦 )
I have had her come to a friend because of his loss of a child although he had no previous experience with the norse pantheon. Perhaps because he mentioned that he was having diffaculty with the anniversary of the loss and her helping another with that. Of course, children are very special to her. She has come across as motherly, and worshiping her includes her family. I found that Loki tagged along a little.
Her name, appears to etymologically derive from two Old Norse words, sigr (victory) and vina (meaning girl-friend). This will cause some modern-day practitioners to hail Her in rites as “Victory Bringer.”
Appearances in Lore: Volupsa, Gylfaginning, Skaldskaparmal, Haustlong, Pulur, Þórsdrápa
- she was counted among the Asyngr (the name given to the Goddesses among the Aesir).
- She was wed to Loki, and with him had two sons
- As described in the lore, Loki’s two sons were slain, one forced to kill the other. The intestines of her son was then used to bind Loki. Sigyn stood at his side in her grief, and held up a vessel to catch the poison that burned like acid, that dripped from the snake fixed above Him.
- One of her by-names, or kennings is “Incantation-Fetter” (used briefly in passing in Þórsdrápa).
Because she’s mentioned in Haustlong (an older text and one of the few actually written by a pagan skald, and not a Christian scholar) I’ve seen scholary theory that she may be a Goddess from the older Germanic tradition, which carried into the later appearing Norse culture… READ MORE
I read those myths about Sigyn holding the bowl of poison over Loki to keep it from spilling on him and everyone focuses on Loki getting venom on his face and ignores the fact that with holding a heavy-ass bowl out at arm’s length all freaking day, girl’s arms have gotta be jacked as hell.
Part of the “Binding of Loki” by Sam Flegal.
Read about the process he went through for finding the best way to convey the emotions of the moment here.
I found it in a world of heat and sand
Blooming in the parched soil of disillusion
A single bud, sweet and scarlet
Drenched in morning dew
Rarest of treasures in this desolate land
Heartbreaking beauty in a bed of pain
Bending with the winds that sweep the dunes
Not just surviving…
But thriving
And you, my Lady of the Staying Power
You have wandered through the deserts of despair
Withstood the flames of wrath, all undeserving
As they ripped your family from your arms
Then left you alone
Catching poison in the dark
Take a look around at what you’ve come through
Bending, never broken, standing tall
Sigyn, never has another been s
Holding the Bowl 