Thor

Master of the Storm

Making Offerings to Thor

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Colors: Sky-blue, cloud-white, lightning-gold, and red

Symbols: Hammer, goats, belt and gloves of strength

Altar Suggestions: Thor’s hammer figures, model goats (ideally pulling a cart), weapons, shield, metal lightning-bolts, rainwater, garlic, leek, onion, hawthorn, houseleek, tormentil, oak, the runes Thurisaz or Sowelo.

Food and Drink Offerings: Mead, beer, goat meat, hearty foods with lots of meat, onions, and garlic.

Service Offerings: Donate time to an organization dedicated to protecting children from abuse. Help someone move or do some other sort of heavy work for someone in need of it. Protect the needy. Escort someone to do something that scares them, and be there as a source of courage and moral support for them.

Contraindicated: Pieces of flint, or knife whetstones. (Thor still has a whetstone stuck in his head.) Meat with broken bones in it. Large pieces of bone meat can be jointed, but the bones should not be cut or broken.

 

 

Artwork by Kay Steele.