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cleric, Death, death the endless, faith, Hel, idol, neil gaimon, Religion, Runes, symbol
So I hope every one had a good Easter. Hopefully, you all had a heathen one, but we shall not quible. I didn’t manage to do much spiritually that day, or religiously, but I spend some of it with family and with us, that’s part of it. Hel was with me, so at least one God got some attention that day. 🙂
I do wish to apologize for the lack of updates, life got in the way again, but hopefully I will be able to get more of the Getting Started series out there for you folks as I write them. Easter would have been a wonderful chance, but alas. 😦
Anyways, since I took my Oath to Hel, I’ve been working on different things. A symbol of faith was made before the Oath, but I am finally going to show it to you all. Hel likes to garden, and for me her holy symbols are derived from flowers (especially the Hel Orcid, more on that later). And thanks to an idea my GF had, which she got from the Dresden files (and I feel bad I didn’t run with this sooner) I have made a small box of runes to carry with myself at all times that I might have their power ready, since I can’t always lug around paper and pen thanks to my job.
Lastly, I was going to get a tattoo to mark my dedication to Hel, but ended up finding something today that I had to snatch up (I was compelled, I tell you! She wanted it! There was squee!) that has put that on hold. Namely, a new idol in the form of a statue of Death (by Neil Gaimon) that I found at the comic book shop. A gracious discount was offered unto me, and I could not deny the divine providence of payday and discount.
So here they are below, the box and runes, symbol, and idol. 🙂
Son of Hel 
Wes Hael Lucius!
I hope you had a wonderful Eoster/Easter regardless of wherever or not anything spiritual or religious went on. We ended up not performing our usual family husel and blot because we were more or less told by the wights and gods of the occasion that the offerings we participated in the week eariler with the local folk was more than enough for celebration at that time.
Both the idol and the runes are beautiful. We have an idol of Helle sitting on our Weofod that was hand sowned together by a wonderful Heathen craftswoman who lives in Texas who has an awesome etsy shop.
No need to apologize for the amount of time its taking to get around to posting more….Life happens and I’m sure we’re all, or at least the ones who enjoy your posts the most, are more than patient enough to wait until you are ready or able to hit us with the next one.
Anyway hope all is well with you and yours and Hael Helle!
Welga
Hrodbeorht Cliffordsunu
aka Rob
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Thank you, I hope it goes well for you also, my kin. 🙂
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Hmmm… Clerics of Hel are very rare these days, and all things considered, I think there should be many more of them… How one wants to depict Hel is another matter, but then again, I find no blasphemy in “The Sandman” or “kid sister hel”. I think I shall even have to write a blog entry on the subject in my native swedish (my recent addiction is “asatru kitsch”) and offer my own fav pics and images of Hel – both those I made myself and Hel as envisioned by others…
Erik M / aka Tannhauser3
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Well, I went with the “sister death” because that’s how she often appears to me. We often forget she was a young maiden when given her realm, and she is one of the youngest of the Gods. Maybe it’s a personal choice, but she always appears as a young woman of my age to me, often looking like that. 🙂
but the Gods are not bound to a single form, this is true, and she takes many shapes. 🙂 So I thank you for your kinds words and support. My hopeful next step is to get Gothi training so I can be come a full Priest. 🙂 We haven’t got enough clerics or priests for any of the Gods at this point, I’m just glad I can do my part.
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and there we go.. http://tannhauser3.wordpress.com/2013/04/08/raising-hel-mera-om-asatro-kitsch/
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any chance at a translation? I can read swedish sadly
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oops, sorry – thought everyone used “google translate” these days, which gives a rather accurate approximation.. but – I’ll try to offer a decent translation, as soon as I have time..
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a bit better, perhaps… http://tannhauser3.wordpress.com/2013/04/09/raising-hel-more-on-asatru-kitsch/
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