Raven's Pathwalking Journal: Nine Worlds, Nine Days
Some years ago, the goddess who owns me, body and soul, Hel the Keeper of the Dead and Mistress of the Underworld, commanded me to take a nine-day tour of the Nine Worlds. It took place from October 6 to October 14 of 2003. I kept journal entries of all the preparations for this journey, and afterwards wrote about what I experienced. She has asked me to put this material up where it can be seen by others, in case (I suppose) She has others in mind who would be benefited by my work. Therefore I give my words and my struggles forth as a gift. Read them and take what you will from them.-- Raven Kaldera, horse and bootscrape to the Gods
- Preparation for the Journey
- Nine Worlds, Nine Days
- Day 1, Midgard: "I am a traveler on Man's Roads."
- Day 2, Muspellheim: "I am a skald before the Great Fire."
- Day 3, Asgard: "I have learned kingship on borrowed thrones."
- Day 4, Alfheim: "I am a harbinger of the teind."
- Day 5, Vanaheim: "I am a keeper of the cycle of the year."
- Day 6, Jotunheim: "I am the lost child of the Iron Wood."
- Day 7, Svartalfheim "I am a carrier of the hammer's blessing."
- Day 8, Niflheim "I have shed tears for the chained beast."
- Day 9, Helheim "I am a speaker for the dead of my tribe."