Sigyn is the wife of Loki. She is not mentioned very often in the Eddas, but she is rather well identified in popular culture because of her connection to Loki. Sigyn is most famous for her role in Loki’s binding.
When Loki is bound to the rock and the snake is hung over his face, his wife Sigyn stays at his side and holds a bowl under the snake’s fangs to keep the venom from dripping into his eyes. Snorri reports that when she has to empty the bowl, venom from the snake’s fangs drips into Loki’s eyes and he thrashes, causing earthquakes.
It’s not really any of my business what parts of Herself Sigyn chooses to show individual followers.
Do I sometimes disagree with some people? Yep. I puzzle out why I feel the way I do, and then I move on with my life. It doesn’t threaten my faith in the least.
No one is really an authority on a God but the God Themselves. Especially in a religion like Asatru where we don’t really have any written lore, especially about Sigyn. Sigyn has Her reasons for approaching who She does, and for showing which parts of Herself to show.
“Faithful” is the only word they allow me. As if my tears when my son was killed
Ripped by his brother-wolf,
As if his live entrails binding your body
Were nothing.
Why do people think suggesting violence against Loki’s family is funny?
I honestly do not know. What I do know is that a good bit of the folks who would even suggest these things know next to nothing about Loki other than the fact that he’s the “Worldbreaker” and a liar <insert all the bad things people think Loki is here and cover it with the Plague>. They don’t the time to read much about him let alone actually get to know him—or his family. His family literally never did anything wrong. Like, ever. ((Correct me if I am wrong, please.)) They were pretty much judged as “monsters”, and that’s how people still view them. (As for Sigyn, the fact that she chose his side is apparently enough to warrant the same hatred and suspicion that Loki is looked at with. I really don’t get it.) How unfortunate these mean people will probably never get to know how awesome he and his family really are.
//endrant
Heh. I don’t know that “literally never did anything wrong” is actually accurate, but that depends on your reading of the myths and whether or not you take them literally.
I’m not an apologist for Loki, nor His children. He is much more than the Worldbreaker, or any mud that may be slung at Him, but He’s also not a being of pure light and all of that bullshit. No god really is, in my estimation.
That being said, it specifically bothers me when violence is suggested towards Narfi/Nari, Váli and Sigyn. These are the members of Loki’s family that you can absolutely argue “literally did nothing”. And it was something I saw in reference to them that really upset me this morning because it was such a pointless and disruptive comment.
Holding the Bowl 