I finally got my camera to work, so here are some pictures of my altar to Loki! The image quality is not the greatest because this is an old digital camera that hasn’t been quite right since it fell into a creek with me a few years ago.
The first image shows the entire set-up. Yes, that is a picture of Marvel!Loki. I saw it from across the dealer room at a convention earlier this year and knew immediately that it had to come home with me. Although I’m a huge Avengers fan, that was honestly the furthest thing from my mind. It just felt right. I never found the right place for it until I started setting up the altar. (I wish I could remember the artist’s name; I’d love to see more of her work!) In front of it is my stone oil burner, which held peppermint oil at the time the picture was taken.
You can’t see it in the picture, but there’s also a clay box (with lid) that I made to hold food offerings.
The Q action figure at the opposite end of the altar represents Loki for me. I don’t feel much of a connection with any of the statues that I’ve considered, but to me, this makes perfect sense. YMMV. The small, plastic box in front of him is full of iridescent lucky stars. There’s also a set of chimes that I used to wear all the time during my hippie days in high school.
In the second picture, you can see the main part of the altar, which sits on a stepstool that my grandfather made for me when I was a toddler. I made the altar cloth from a piece of fabric that my partner gave me. I also made the Yggdrasill incense burner and the raven, which is representative of Loki’s connection with Odin, and I painted the miniature of the Urnes snakes at the back. The clear stone near the raven is Iceland spar, which is the sólarsteinn referred to in medieval Icelandic texts.
Other item of interest: the black stone beside the incense burner is onyx. When I’m at home, it sits on the altar to “recharge", as it were. I carry it in my pocket whenever I go out as a tangible link to Loki and to my sacred space.