"Upgraded" Personal Pantheon Beads
Having outgrown my first set of prayer beads, I decided that instead of adding or deleting beads from it as I had originally planned I would instead make a second set, designed for daily wear as a necklace. I decided to include some Gods who, while they are actually peripheral to my own daily practice, are still important enough members of my extended spiritual family that I wanted to remember to honor Them on a regular basis. In order to keep the necklace fairly small and manageable, I compensated for these extra beads by excluding the non-Deity spirits I work with, for whom I created a separate bracelet. The necklace is shown here on my bedroom Odin altar.
Starting at the (sterling silver toggle) clasp and moving clockwise, the beads included are: a bone skull for Hela and my ancestors, a clear quartz for Balder, gold pearl for Sif, carnelian for Thor, green candy jade for Laufey, purple candy jade for Sigyn, labradorite for Loki, lapis for Mimir, purple fluorite for Borr, celestite for Bestla, red quartz for Odin, the central pendant which is a an equal-armed jade cross, rose quartz for Gunnlod, blue jade for Bragi, green quartz for Idunna, a shell bead for Gunnlod's mother, who is unnamed in the lore but who in my UPG is a sister of Borr I am calling "Maer," snowflake obsidian for Suttung, onyx for Surt, green agonite for Jord, amber for Freyja, green jade for Freyr, garnet for Persephone, and wood and bone for the Norns.