Written & Composed By : Shane Lint of Mimirs Well
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This meditation was designed to allow you to connect with Rán and grow close to her and seek her blessing. In Norse Paganism or Norse Mythology , Rán is a goddess and a personification of the sea. Rán and her husband Ægir, a jötunn who also personifies the sea, have nine daughters, who personify waves. The goddess is frequently associated with a net, which she uses to capture sea-goers.

Ran, the wife of Aegir, appears as a delicate-looking woman with blue-green skin. Her long black hair drags on the ground behind her when she walks through Aegir’s hall; its ends trail off into nothingness, and this is because her hair is magically linked to all the seaweed that grows in all the northern oceans. Like her daughters, she can appear in mermaid form or with legs, although she is more likely than they are to take the latter shape, perhaps because her job as hostess of Aegirheim requires her to spend more time walking on mother-of-pearl floors than swimming. Her weapon is the net, with which she drags people down to their deaths; her name is translated by scholars as meaning “robber” or “ravager” or “plunderer” (though Alby Stone has proposed that ‘Ran’ is derived from the old Indo-European word rani meaning ‘lady’). Ran is very much the flirtatious siren—of all the etins, female sea-giants are most likely to make eyes at humans, although to take them up on it can be disastrous. She is the maker of all sea-storms in the northern oceans.

In many ways, Ran acts out the darker and more destructive side of the sea’s nature; unlike Aegir who comes across as friendly but might then turn on you, Ran makes no bones about being a ravager. She is beautiful, but her teeth are sharp and pointed and her fingers are clawed. When she smiles, your blood runs cold—or it ought to. Her hobby is collecting dead souls, with which she populates Aegirheim. While Aegir is both an “honorary” Aesir and an “honorary” Vanir, and tries to balance alliances with all of them, there is no question where Ran’s alliances lie. She is on good terms with Hela, the goddess of Death, and prefers the company of the older gods.

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