Our Pocket Rán Statue honors the Norse goddess Rán, Jotun-Goddess of the Dangerous Sea. While Njord is the god of sea travel and her husband Aegir is the god of the gentle sea, Rán rules the treacherous ocean waters. She was known to have a golden hall at the bottom of the sea where the drowned spent their afterlife until she released them to another Afterlife Hall. This hall is where Rán and Aegir entertained the gods on many occasions: it is also the setting of the Lokasenna tale. She was often said to be the original creator of the net, which she used to drag sailors down to join her hall. Sailors would carry gold, particularly coins, as offerings to Rán for safe passage across her seas. They hoped that, should Rán pull them off their ships, she would take only their gold and let them leave alive. Gold was said to be the fire of the sea and was known to be the source of light in her hall. Here, she's depicted in the same style as Norse wooden god-posts. Gold coins are entangled in her hair with skull nestled at her throat. Below her head is her signature net. This original design was hand-carved by us before being casted in genuine natural materials using the same process as most pagan statuary. We have the following statuary materials available: Bonded copper carbonate Golden: This is the only statue not made of natural materials. It's made with resin and colored with golden mica. Like folk magic practitioners before us, we work with the best materials available for the task at hand: this includes resin. Despite not being a natural material, we work with resin for its alchemical property of transformation. Under its own power, resin transforms itself from a liquid to solid state through heat it produces itself. We view this as an alchemical metamorphosis and prize this material for that purpose. Each statue is hand-painted with black, gold, and/or red to highlight her features. This statue measures 3x2x0.25 inches and can fit comfortably in a hand during meditation or a pocket while going about your day.
