Door 12
12 Dec. 2018
Clear crystals & white leather necklace
This lovely charm necklace is 42 cm (16.5") long and fits like a collar. It's made of genuine leather, silver colored copper alloy and three beautiful sparkling uncut tumbled clear quartz gemstones.
In the metaphysical world, Clear Quartz crystals are the supreme gift of Mother Earth. Ancients believed these stones to be alive, taking a breath once every hundred years or so, and many cultures thought them to be incarnations of the Divine.
Shipping costs are calculated from both the size of the package and its weight.
The costs for shipping this item with standard priority mail (covered by the winner) is:
Within Norway: 26,- NOK
To Europe: 32,- NOK
To the rest of the world: 39,- NOK
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The rebirth of the Sun Goddess
- A daughter
- is birthed by Elf-Splendor (the Sun goddess)
- after she is swallowed by the wolf
- She (the New Sun) shall ride
- as the gods are dying
- the old paths of her mother.
Since Jól begins with Solstice, it is natural to assume that the Sun was an important feature of this ancient celebration. But how? Popular modern notions aside, it is a fact that we actually know very little about the Norse Pagan religion. What we “know” is based on how we interpret the few pieces of the puzzle we actually have, mostly through old texts, folklore and archaeological finds, and how well we can imagine what winter must have felt like to people who did not have any of the modern comforts of our day.
The day of the Winter Solstice is the shortest day of the year, and in Norway, as in other countries to the far north, it is particularly short, lasting for a few hours at best. In the Northern parts of Norway, the day of Winter Solstice is hardly a day at all, but rather a short moment of dark bluish light at midday before Night once more settles, and the Sun is not seen. To the ancients, it must have appeared as if the wolf of darkness was catching up on her, or that she had in fact succumbed, shining only a bleak light from the realm of Hel – or from the wolf´s belly.
When the poem quoted above refers to how the new Sun goddess will begin to ride the ancient paths of her mother “when the gods are dying”, it is not just a reference to Ragnarok – it is a reference to a time when the gods are weakened, dying, awaiting the gift of new life that is given by the resurrected Maiden, as described in the skaldic poem Haustlöng, when the gods begin to age and die while their shared, singular lover (“Asa leika”- The (one) Lover of (all) the gods), the Maiden goddess, resides in the Underworld. It may mean several things at once, but on one level this is a reference to winter, and to the “fact” that the gods depend on the fruit of their lover, the goddess of resurrections, in order to revive and retain their immortality, their youth and their strength.
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