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Hel

“This child will rule the darkest and deepest of places and the dead of all nine worlds. She will be the queen of those poor souls who die unworthily, of illness or old age, from accidents, or at the moment of birth. Warriors who fall in battle will continue to come here to us in Valhalla. But those who die in another way will become her subjects and will serve her in darkness. “Nail Gaiman, “American Gods.”

What lurks behind the killing cold of Helheim?

Heil, or Hel, is the queen of the afterlife realm of Heil in Norse mythology. According to the thirteenth-century Icelandic scholar Snorri Sturluson, Heil is the daughter of Loki and the giantess Angrboda (Old Norse Angrboða, "anguish-boding") and thus the sister of the wolf Fenrir and the world serpent Jormungand.

Their name refers to the dead, buried or cremated, whose soul is invisible to the living. Hel is usually portrayed as avaricious, hard, and cruel, or at least insensitive to the concerns of both the living and the dead. However, her personality needs to be developed in the surviving Old Norse literature. She's usually only mentioned in passing. Snorri describes her appearance as half-black and half-white and says that she was always grim and fierce-looking.

In contrast to the common image of the past, the Goddess of the underworld has gained versatility in today's film and book industry. Now, every fan of Viking mythology has a Hel figurine with its own story.

What do the stories hide?

The Elder Edda (or Poetic Edda) is a collection of Norse mythological poems written by Snorri Sturluson. The relationship between the Goddess of the Death and Odin in Norse mythology is emphasized in Gylfaginning, the first and largest part of the collection, which tells the story of Heil as Loki's daughter and her role as ruler of Helheim, the place where the dead go who did not end up in Pagan Goddess world (Valhalla) or Folkvang.

Seeing the threat of Ragnarök in his son Loki, the cruel Odin sent little Hel to the realm of permafrost, where the grave silence and suffering of souls would find peace. Like her siblings, Hel harbors a grudge against the Asgardians and looks forward to Ragnarök, when justice will be served, and her cold blue eyes will be filled with life for the first time in centuries.

Statue of Goddess of the underworld

The Goddess of the underworld is a significant figure in the history of Scandinavian culture. Due to the belief in polytheism, carved statues of various gods, including a Hel statue, were often used as spiritual decor. Wooden statues were popular, but archaeologists have also found small stone gods. A handmade wooden statue has been a dream since the character first appeared on screen, hasn't it? The size of the oak-based carved statue is as follows:

●      height: 9" / 23 cm;

●      width: 3.5" / 9.5 cm;

●      depth: 1.57" / 4cm.

Pay attention! Do not expose the product to water. Additional wall mount hardware is necessary for the wall mounting of the Hel figurine.