Call for Submissions: The Troth’s Loki Devotional

Editor contact for questions/comments:
Bat Collazo
batcollazo@gmail.com

At Trothmoot 2019, a plan began to form for a Troth-published Loki devotional book, featuring writing and art from a wide variety of Troth members. We are now seeking submissions for this yet-to-be-named book. If you’d be interested in contributing, please see below!

SEEKING:

• Poetry
• Short stories expanding upon lore or creating new modern myths
• Short play scripts
• Rituals for Loki, or Loki in relation to his family
• Original spells tailored to call on Loki
• Song lyrics and/or full sheet music
• Personal essays about your worship of Loki or experiences
• Analysis of Loki’s roles in lore or modern Heathenry, especially as applicable to modern practice (we already have lore summaries covered – we’re looking for perspectives that offer interpretation and make new connections)
• 2D artwork or photos of 3D artwork (make sure all image submissions would look good printed in black and white, are at least 300 DPI, and are PNG or TIFF format)

Aeva-Otr, or: how to learn about unknown deities

A practical and experiential guide to learning more about a spiritual entity in Heathenry once the lore runs dry.

At Trothmoot 2019, I attended a Myth Embodiment workshop lead by Cara Freyasdaughter, who explains the concept here. Using improvisational acting (and occasionally some mild, casual hints of channeling), we retold the story of Thrymskvida, one of my favorites in the lore. It was tons of fun, hilarious, and thought-provoking. Participants were asked not to act as their patron deities, in order to branch out and experience different perspectives, as well as to avoid any accidental deeper channeling. This was meant to be an engaging psychological exercise to explore the lore, not a possessory rite.

Since that left my desired role (predictably, Loki) off the table, I volunteered for the role of Thrym’s unnamed sister. She will be the focus and example deity for this piece.

Possession: Loki

This is a personal narrative of my experience with Loki during a possessory rite at Trothmoot 2019. I hope to publish a collaborative writeup of the event as a whole soon, but this part demands to be written first. I also encountered Odin: that post is forthcoming.

One of Trothmoot’s major themes for me was accepting emotional vulnerability. Posting this publicly  without intellectualizing my irrational, emotional, romantic, mystical experience is one more step in that direction. So here we go.

Possible trigger warning for brief mentions of past trauma.