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on the flower of Eir.

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There's a point where attestation ends, intuitive inference begins, and we have to NorsePlay the more likely ideas to see if they grant us returns from our praxis. In that progression of reasoning & trial, we find that Healing Goddess  Eir is broader than the limited attestations and can address both physical & emotional malaise. And we strongly suspect her hand manifesting in the crop of vaccines that have begun to open up Midgard again, so if you have a moment, go give her a blot of thanks. Also, along these associative suppositions, while we've found much parroting that the goddess is connected to a white Eirflower , we can't actually find which flower this specifically is. If we NorsePlay it to research and assign one , which white flower might it be, taking into account healing properties in tandem with Indo/Migration/Iron/Viking Age regional origins? Our NorsePlay would be the Alpine/Southern Germany Edelweiss , which is used in folk medicine and has many no...

contemporary Norse Goddess meme: Eir.

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The second of the NorseGoddess memes is for Eir . Images of the herbal & apothecary have been presented to frame the idea of the Aesir's goddess of healing. Eir's also listed as a valkyrie in another source, so as with most Norse Deities the facets of what they do are polyvalent & complex. We like the inference of the last panel's hand gesturing seiðr work. [Found on a VK Wall. If any of you know who made these, do tell. (And if you know the particular meme generator used, do tell, as we'd love to make more ourselves.)] #    #    # Guillermo Maytorena IV knew there was something special in  the Norse Lore when he picked up a copy of the d'Aulaires'  Norse Gods and Giants  at age seven. Since t hen he's been fascinated by the truthful potency of Norse Mythology, passionately read & studied, embraced Ásatrú, launched the Map of Midgard project, and spearheaded the neologism/brand NorsePlay.   If you have e mployment/ opport...