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Skadi, the goddess of shadows, injuries, pain and casualties

Skadi is a Norse goddess. It is also known as Skadhi, Skade, Scathe, and Skajoi. Their names mean “damage”, “damage” or “injury”. It is the word from which English has obtained the words shadows, scathe and scythe.

Skadi was an ice giantess, not a goddess, but when the Aesir killed her father, they made up for her by giving her a spouse and divine powers. She was in love with Balder, but the Aesir did not allow her to choose any of them. They made her choose her husband at the bare feet of the gods. Skadi thought that the most beautiful God must also have the most beautiful foot, but she was wrong. The most beautiful feet belonged to the sea god Njord. Their marriage was not very happy, as Skadi could not sleep with the screaming seagulls in the Njord ocean house, and Njord could not sleep with the howling wolves in Skadi’s icy castle in the mountains. They managed to organize the relationship to work, and Skadi has always had a good relationship with all the Aesir.

The relationship between her father and her was also close and dear, so Skadi became the goddess of inheritance, family relationships, and ancestor roots.

Human beings are social animals and we learned to speak to strengthen social ties. Winter is the time to get together and tell stories. Because of this, Skadi is also the goddess of knowledge, storytelling, and learning from the elders.

Skadi is the goddess of bridges. She joins the world of God with the Primordial Forces, being an ice giantess who becomes a Goddess. She joins the fresh water of melting ice with the salty water of the Njord Sea. Scandinavia is home to the Baltic Sea, the largest pool of brackish water in the world. (All the brackish water in the world is dedicated to a Goddess).

Skadi is an archetypal yang woman, married to a yin man, an example of how to preserve freedom and savagery, but still be able to fulfill duties and expectations. You do what YOU know is right, not what OTHERS tell you to do. Skadi is the goddess of independent, balanced and self-confident women. Run with wolves.

“A healthy woman is very much like a wolf: robust, full of life, strong, life-giving, aware of the territory, inventive, loyal, wandering”

– Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Skadi is the goddess of justice, revenge, and righteous anger. His arrival in the Aesir to demand justice for his father and accept compensation grants him this right. Later, all the Aesir came to her for protection, advice, decision and judgment in different matters, even Loke did this. In this She remembers Hecate, the Greek goddess of liminal spaces, who is the final judge among the Olympian gods.

Like Hekate, Skadi is also the Goddess of Magic. It represents the darkness and coldness of winter as well as the soft and protective snow. It’s like ice, hard and cold, but ice can also keep people warm and protected in the form of igloos.

Skadi is a hunter. Bow hunting, accompanied by white wolves. Skadi gives hunters the skills of hunting, so if you are a good archer, thank Skadi. She is called the Goddess of the White Wolf and all wolves, not only white ones, are her animals, but also other white Nordic animals such as polar bears and white reindeer are hers. You move through the winter landscape on skis, snowshoes or skates, and you know these winter sports better than anyone. Sports are sacred to her. Skadi is in many ways similar to another sports jacket, Diana-Artemis. Diana’s favorite sport was running, and when the snow melts, Skadi runs too. It is believed to be in the rivers and rapids during the summer and therefore it is also the goddess of fast racing and long distance racing. You can honor her by participating in these sports and martial arts. She is also the goddess of the mountains, so she covers all extreme and endurance sports.

Skadi gives people the ability to communicate with nature, animals, plants, and minerals.

In the legend of Skadi’s father, his eyes were said to rise skyward, like stars, to watch over Skadi. Therefore, Skadi is also the goddess of the stars and all activities related to the stars, such as astronomy and astrology. Here in Scandinavia (named for Skadi) the summers are so clear that the stars don’t look right. We have to wait for the Skadi season to start, winter, to see the stars.

Skadi is not a silvery blonde white woman, but she looks like any native northern woman. His hair is dark, almost black and long. Sometimes it is tied with a single knot. Her skin is brown and weather-worn, like the skin of every woman who plays winter sports, and her hands are the hands of a working woman. Their eyes are blue-gray and their teeth are very, very white. She always wears white clothes, decorated with white fur, that’s why they call her the White Lady of Winter. He carries with him a white winter cane, a large cane his height, decorated with bone and skin, stone and metal. He wears bone and tooth jewelry and animal claws. She is sometimes depicted with her white serpent, Gemheil, coiled around her wrist or neck. Skadi is also the snake lover, and when Loke caused Balder’s death, it was Skadi who hung the venom-dripping snake over his face, causing him to shiver and tremble when the poison hurt him.

Skadi is a shapeshifter, so you can expect to see her as anything. It is often shaped like a white animal, such as a snowy owl, white snake, or arctic fox.

Skadi lives on pears and game, especially reindeer. Its flowers are all white, but especially those that bloom in the snow, such as the Christmas rose, snowdrops, and catkins. All the black and white stones are dedicated to it, especially the transparent quartz crystals, called “mountain crystals” in Finnish and “ice stones” in German. If you want to make an offering to him, offer him your blood, filtered water or vodka, pears or white flowers. Don’t offer her salt, because the smell of salt reminds her of her husband’s ocean house and the screaming seagulls. Traditionally, Skadi received offers on Imbolc (Candlemass).

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