Loki And Sigyn – Lea Svendsen

She is welcomed at the Main Ritual, but she has made it clear to me that she would rather not leave Loki behind, so their idols and offerings stay snuggled together, side-by-side, in the darkened véstead. Loki is no longer alone that night, at least. Faithful, loving, loyal Sigyn will never leave him. How could she?

When he is welcomed into the procession for the Main Ritual, she will joyfully take her place beside him at the sacred fire. Until then, she stays with him, his comfort (and mine). Of course, along the spectrum of people who like Loki and people who don’t, there’s a range of neutrality as well. Patricia Lafayllve, author of A Practical Heathen’s Guide to Asatru, includes an essay in the end called “The Problem of Loki” in which the debate is addressed as it stood in 2013.

This seems to have led many to think that Patricia is staunchly anti-Loki, but to set the record straight, she isn’t a Nokian! In her own words: Despite what others have said, I am not now, nor have I ever been, anti-Loki. At the same time, I am not pro-Loki. … We do not need to worship every deity that comes around. Not everyone relates to Freyja, or to Thor, and so on, nor do they have to. I do not worship Loki. I believe in him—he certainly exists—and whether or not he was ever worshipped in the heathen period, he is certainly revered now.

But I do not blót to him, or raise a horn to him in sumbel. I remember my friend Joe Mandato once said to me, “I have a mutual non-aggression pact with Loki,” and that fit my position so well that I stole the phrase. ‘Mutual non-aggression pact’ neatly sums up my feelings—I do not bother him, he does not bother me, and it’s all neutral, really. He’s a complex figure, as are all the gods, and I think it is up to each person to decide if they want him in their lives or not.

I believe that Loki needs to be approached with a great deal of care and concern for one’s own well-being. I’d say that about any deity, really, but in the case of Loki—as with all trickster gods—his nature is capricious.

Lea Svendsen has been accused of being “a mortician who’s actually three foxes in a trench coat,” “perpetually adjacent to catastrophe,” “the Lokeanest Lokean who ever Lokeaned,” and her grandfather’s “little genius.” She can’t argue with any of them (except maybe Grandpa’s contribution) as she embraces the chaotic life of dedication to Loki and Sigyn.

She’s a generational heathen, but she’s quick to point out that her practice is different from her father’s, which in turn was different from his father’s. In fact, her mother took it upon herself to shape Lea’s Nordic philosophy and worldview and raise her with heathen values, despite not actually being heathen herself. She is a proud member of the kindred Glitnir and humbled to be a part of the Northeast Heathen Community. When she’s not looking for foxes and opossums in the woods or escaping to Iceland for coffee and rye bread ice cream at Cafe Loki, she’s going down absurd rabbit holes online and researching morbid and obscure history and phenomenon.

Lea lives in eastern Pennsylvania with her beloved etymologist, two clingy cats, and a ghost. She hopes to add a ferret to the mix in honor of Loki. You can read more about her Loki kinda life (and find out if she ever gets a ferret) at her site, LevLeLoki.com. OceanofPDF.com Llewellyn Publications Woodbury, Minnesota OceanofPDF.com Copyright Information Loki and Sigyn: Lessons on Chaos, Laughter & Loyalty from the Norse Gods © 2022 by Lea Svendsen. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any matter whatsoever, including Internet usage, without written permission from Llewellyn Publications, except in the form of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

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