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 Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 8:11 am
So every God has a Keening of some sort (things you call them by other than their names). Now some people use these as part of their evocations and invocations.
For those who use Keenings:
Do you write your own?
How do you know they answer?
Have you found that any of your personal keenings go along with those in the past?
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Posted: Mon Jun 22, 2009 12:42 am
"Kennings". "Keening" is a form of mourning through singing. wink
I don't think every god has a kenning. The word seems specific to Germanic religion; I haven't heard it in relation to other pantheons. The Greek lot have alternate names but they also have lots of epithets: "Bright-Eyed Athene" and so on. They're big on their epithets.
I think there are a few newer kennings gaining popularity, but then, given how many old kennings there were (Odinn seemed to collect them) one can never really be sure if one is newer or older. "Old Man" seems like a newer kenning for Odinn but it's quite popular. There's a tendency to call Loki "Himself", athough usually when talking of him rather than to him.
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Posted: Mon Jun 22, 2009 5:57 am
The God and Goddess of the Temple of witchcraft tradition really only have Kennings as they don't have specific names (as far as I am aware).
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Posted: Mon Jun 22, 2009 8:34 pm
neko wyndy wytch So every God has a Keening of some sort (things you call them by other than their names). Now some people use these as part of their evocations and invocations. For those who use Keenings: Do you write your own? How do you know they answer? Have you found that any of your personal keenings go along with those in the past? I'm with Sanguina; I think kennings are pretty specific to the Norse lot. I mostly stick to the kennings I remember from the Prose Eddas. It really never occurred to me to make my own.
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Violet Song jat Shariff Vice Captain
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Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2009 5:49 am
I understand Kennings to be descriptions of deity that you use along with their names.
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Posted: Wed Jun 24, 2009 12:43 am
I've never seen it used in reference to other pantheons, myself.
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Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2009 11:04 am
Having a descriptive name or title for a deity doesn't make it a kenning. The term 'kenning' really only applies to the Norse. It doesn't make sense removed from its' cultural context.
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Posted: Fri Jul 03, 2009 8:06 am
Morgandria Having a descriptive name or title for a deity doesn't make it a kenning. The term 'kenning' really only applies to the Norse. It doesn't make sense removed from its' cultural context. Thank you. I misunderstood what a Kenning was.
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Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2009 9:29 am
I rarely refer to Old One Eye by name. I can't think of any other deities I use kennings for. (Old One Eye is the only one of the Aesir I have a regular association with. Though the Trickster seems to pop in on occasion.)
There's one deity I refer to by Title because sie has never given me a name to call hir. Another one I refer to by title because of other associations with his name.
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Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2009 6:19 pm
I generally call him Mr Wednesday when dealing with the Norse pantheon. The Norse are the predominant ones whom I've heard referred to that way, but some Gaelic gods can be referred to that way as well. Makes sense, though, Germany leaking to France.
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Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2009 9:43 pm
phantomkitsune I generally call him Mr Wednesday when dealing with the Norse pantheon. The Norse are the predominant ones whom I've heard referred to that way, but some Gaelic gods can be referred to that way as well. Makes sense, though, Germany leaking to France. So you've read American Gods then? Or did you just make it up based of the etymologycal associations? Anyway, to answer your question, sometimes I do and sometimes I don't. It varies depending on both the God and the situation.
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Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2009 9:54 pm
Etymological association. It was very amusing when I read American Gods.
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Posted: Fri Jun 29, 2012 7:21 pm
I've been reading that there are medieval kennings associated with each of the Celtic ogham letters, which I've been using to further understand them as a method of divination.
However, I've never heard of kennings in relation to Gods. Nooor do I worship any. So, um, kind of a pointless post right hurr.
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Posted: Fri Jun 29, 2012 9:01 pm
As has been mentioned before, kennings in reference to Gods really seems to be a Germanic/Norse thing. They also used kennings for pretty much everything else that had any importance (swan road is the sea, Freyja's tears are gold or amber, and what not). Some of them are so obscure that they're almost riddles.
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Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2012 7:04 am
I never heard of a kenning before. Hmm...I guess I'd rather get to know a deity first before I began calling them anything other than their title.
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