Hel ~ Ritual Anointing Oil ~ Cycles ~ Rebirth ~ Life ~ Death ~ Change ~ Renewal ~ Underworld Journey ~ Light ~ Dark ~ The End ~ The Beginning ~

Hel is the daughter of Loki, the trickster, and his lover, the giantess, Angrboda. She was born with one side of her face smooth pale and beautiful and the other half dark and rotting, like a corpse. She shows you this powerful vision of death to impress upon you death is just as sacred as any other cycle in life. Her domain is named Helheim and is at the lowest roots of the world tree. Her name means "Hidden", like the mysteries of death. The transition from living to dead for mortals is her duty to guide the souls who will not enter the halls of Odin, Freya, or Thor. She receives souls that die a "straw death", that is those who die of natural causes, disease, old age, etc. She built her own great hall, Éljúðnir. She is said to be most protective and caring of her charges and guards their peaceful rest passionately. Hel is believed to be the most powerful of all the gods, for once a soul passes through her gates, not even the All-Father, Odin, can reclaim them. This oil was crafted i