Mother

Stories with the Mother theme:

• The Story of the God Bestla Aug 10, 2025

  

  In the time when giants ruled the emerging world and gods were yet to be born, there lived among the frost-giants a daughter whose beauty was matched only by her wisdom. Her name was Bestla, and she was daughter to Bolthorn, a giant of great learning who knew the secrets of the wind and the language of the stones.

  Unlike many of her kin, who delighted in chaos and conflict, Bestla possessed a gentle heart and a mind that sought understanding rather than dominion. While other giants hurled boulders and roared challenges across the void, she would sit quietly listening to the songs that ice made when it cracked, or watching the patterns that frost painted on stone.

• The Story of the God Fjorgyn Aug 10, 2025

  

  In the beginning, when the world was nothing but cold void and burning chaos, when ice and fire warred endlessly across the emptiness, there stirred something deeper than either—something that would become the foundation of all life, all growth, all nurturing love. This was Fjorgyn, the Earth Mother, whose very being would become the soil from which all green things spring.

  Fjorgyn was ancient beyond measure, old as the bones of creation itself. She was not born as gods are born, but awakened as the earth awakens each spring—slowly, gradually, but with irresistible force. As the giant Ymir fell and his body became the substance of the world, it was Fjorgyn who breathed life into that raw material, who transformed dead flesh into living soil.