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Shrine for Sigyn and Her Family
1: Narvi and Vali (combined for this picture). The fish usually only holds Narvi’s candy (blue raspberry Sourhead, blueberry Jolly Rancher, and grape Jolly Rancher). Vali’s candy has been left to sit near the dinosaur, but He’ll be getting something to put candy on in the future. (His candy includes an apple Sourhead, green apple Jolly Rancher, and a cherry Jolly Rancher.)
Note: If your room gets too hot, the Jolly Rancher will melt through the wrapping and it’ll look like you’ve been experimenting with fake blood when trying to pry the sticky cherry mess from the shelf. (Fake blood seems like horribly irony when it comes to the candy being for Vali.)
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2: Loki. He has a margarita glass full of cinnamon hard candies with a cinnamon Jolly Rancher and a Fireball jawbreaker (thing) on top. I’m not a knowledgeable stone person, but I thought a pink and black mixed stone was okay for Him. The yarn thing was actually a gift from someone (supposed to be a friendship bracelet, but it was gifted before getting the excess yarn cut off and getting its finishing touches). I have it as a hypothetical gift from Sigyn as a Child to Loki, since I hold the view that They were friends long before They were both aware of being in love (Sigyn as a Child =/= Sigyn as Bride). “I Promise You My Love” is a book of various love poems collected together by Susan Polis Schutz, which represents Loki and Sigyn’s pre-kid marriage.
Fun fact: This started out as being devoted to Sigyn as a Child with touches of Loki stuff for Their Marriage. Their love is so inspirational, but I need to stop myself before I get overwhelmed with feelings.
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3: Sigyn. Whether they’re visible in this or not, there are three different butterfly necklaces (plus a butterfly choker in the red bag). The butterfly necklace and the flower necklace on the Buttermilk box are friendship necklaces (flower one used to be a mood detecting one as well, but it’s been stuck on blue for years).
She gets butterscotch hard candies, and the vaguely pink thing in the picture is a pink rock. The white blob is a crushed paper (current shadow work thing), and there’s technically another shadow work paper in the tall glass. Yes, that glass has lady bugs and hearts on it (which say love bug). I wasn’t kidding when I said this started out focused on Sigyn as a Child. I figure the bowl doesn’t need explaining.
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4: Putting it all together on the shelf. The mini baseball bats are for Narvi and Vali and relate to how I was conveyed Narvi’s death went down. I’ll eventually replace the Jolly Rancher candies for Narvi and Vali, but I definitely need to get something for Vali’s to sit on (no repeating of the fake blood incident).
Notice that there’s a perfect space in the back for something to go – I don’t care how long it takes, I will get Sigyn and Loki by Vera-Ist-44 and put it there.
Exploring Our Gods And Goddesses – Sigyn
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.
Holding the Bowl 