Hi,
It’s not originally found in the lore or anything, as, unfortunately, we barely have anything left regarding Sigyn in the lore.
But as I’m sure you’re aware, we’re not limited to using symbols found in the lore in our personal practices. I was able to find a couple UPG-based correspondence lists that included chrysanthemums using Google. I’m pretty sure this one in particular was floating around Tumblr at one point. Apparently the
chrysanthemumwas a symbol of fidelity in some of those Victorian flower languages.
You don’t need other people’s approval to give something as an offering, though. Sometimes we end up with unusual personal associations because of our individual backgrounds and tastes, and there’s nothing wrong with leveraging that stuff in order to connect better with a deity. Unless you have some reason to believe it would be offensive to the god in question or you’re presenting a personal association as a universal/historical thing, you aren’t hurting anyone.
– Mod E
Tag: Sigyn
Can 👏 we 👏 please 👏 stop 👏 depicting 👏 Sigyn 👏 as 👏 a 👏 child-bride 👏
Seriously ya’ll need to fucking stop with this shit. Sigyn is a grown ass fucking woman for fuck’s sake. We don’t talk about any other of Gods or Goddesses being a child-bride. It’s only one person’s fucking UPG that gets held on a fucking pedestal as Sigyn being a child-bride. I don’t give a shit about “age” or “historic” acceptance of child-brides. That shit is fucking disgusting. Period.
It’s also fucking abusive as fuck. Like in any other relationship in mythos or real life that sort of meeting as a child thing and Loki being Her only friend and “grooming” Her to be His wife reflects real life child sexual abuse. God or human doesn’t matter. That’s what that shit is.
Then there’s the issue of it passively demonizing Loki because who would ever want to marry or be with Him. Like it’s making Him seem so awful that of course He’d marry a child. Or because She was only “groomed” to marry and stay with Him. Fuck that shit with a cactus covered in hot sauce.
I have literally never heard of any interactions with Sigyn or Loki, including my own, where this child-bride crap was verified. All this is is glorifying pedophilia and we already have enough of that in our religion as it is.
This this this this this. This is UPG presented authoritatively and I really despise how often I stumble across it. There’s nothing wrong with having a god or goddess appear to you in child form (Hel often appears to me as a child), but depicting said appearance in the context of a romantic and sexual interaction is awful. In Krasskova’s devotional piece, adult Loki purportedly meets Sigyn when she’s apparently a toddler, has an immediate attraction to her, but knows it would be wrong to pursue anything, so gives her gifts and befriends her while waiting for her to get older. (Which is quite literally the definition of grooming.) In this piece, he marries her when she turns fifteen.
I’m fully aware that gods don’t age the same way humans do, blah blah blah. It doesn’t change the fact that this story uncritically presents pedophilia as sweet, and infantilizes my beloved goddess’ side of her relationship to my beloved Loki, and I hate it. And I’d really ask any adults who are particularly drawn to this interpretation to take a long, hard look at why, and why they find it more appealing than other UPGs where Loki and Sigyn meet and fall in love as two adult equals in a balanced relationship.
Sigyn – Black Tourmaline and Larkavite Necklace
Sigyn
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This piece was originally an inktober prompt, but I’ve fixed it up! This is available as a print or as part of my inktober calendar on my redbubble.
Sigyn is the wife of the Norse god Loki and is dutifully stays with her husband in his torment, catching the venom that drips from an enormous serpent in the cave where he is chained. It is said that when Sigyn pauses to empty her bowl and the poison drips onto Loki’s face, his writhing causes earthquakes.
Sigyn is an amazing figure. Sigyn is steadfast duty in the face of hardship, and bone-deep strength under the weight of grief.
Sigyn represents the strength to bear the weight of suffering and keep going, obviously, BUT it’s important to never ever forget her second lesson:
Sometimes you need to empty your bowl. Sometimes you also need to say enough is enough.
In Norse mythology, it is said that the world will end one day when Loki breaks free of his chains and starts Ragnarok, the final battle between the gods that will destroy everything.
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ultimately i think kindness is the most radical thing you can do with your pain and your anger. it’s like, you take everything awful that’s ever been done to you, and you throw it back in the world’s teeth, and you say no, fuck you, i’m not going to take this. you say this is unacceptable. you say that shit stops with me.
humans are fucking terrible and this awful world we live in will fucking kill you but if you are kind, if you are brave and clever and try really hard, you can defy it. you can impose on this bleak and monstrous structure something beautiful. even if it’s temporary. even if it doesn’t heal anything inside you that’s been hurt.
i’m gonna sleep and i’m gonna wake up and i swear by everything in this deadly horrible universe i’m gonna make someone happy.
i’ve seen a number of comments and tags where people feel that they must swallow or repress their anger in order to engage in kindness. that is not at all what i am recommending here. radical kindness is an expression of anger. it is not passive. it is not repressive. it does not require you, in any way, to forgive those that have fucked you up. it does not require you to be quiet.
it just requires that you be kind. viciously. vengefully. you fight back. you plant flowers. give to charity. play games. pet someone’s dog. scream into the dark. paint and write and dance, tell jokes, sing songs, bake cookies. you have been hurt and you don’t have to deny that hurt. you just have to recognize it in other people, and take their hand, and say: no more. enough. fuck this. no more.
have a cookie.
i will say this again: we are all going to die. the universe is enormous and almost entirely empty. to be kind to each other is the most incredible act of defiance against the dark that i can imagine.
i will say this again: we are all going to die. the universe is enormous and almost entirely empty. to be kind to each other is the most incredible act of defiance against the dark that i can imagine.
1. The universe is indifferent. We ought not be.
2. A good quote: There are two kinds of people. Those who think, “I don’t want anyone to
suffer like I did.” And those who think, “I suffered; why shouldn’t
they?”3. Two good quotes by Kurt Vonnegut: “Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the
winter. It’s round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you’ve
got a hundred years here. There’s only one rule that I know of,
babies-“God damn it, you’ve got to be kind.”And: “Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do
not let pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your
sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may
disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place.”
Holding the Bowl 