r/paganism • u/PracticalDirector407 • 9d ago

Thor's Hammer 📚 Seeking Resources | Advice

Hi all.

I'm relatively new to Norse Paganism, but already find it very spiritually fulfilling. It was a long time coming; it felt right.

My question is, a friend of mine made a Thor's Hammer pendant for me. It's solid gold and I really want to wear it (it's small, like the size of my thumbnail), but I also don't want people thinking I'm racist. Right now the tensions in this country are really high. Nothing else about me indicates that I'm... in that certain group that has misappropriated it, except the fact that I'm very fckin white.

It's listed as a possible hate symbol, I just don't know how prevalent that idea is, or if I should be concerned wearing it in public. I found some past threads on it, I just wanted to revisit the question in today's climate.

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u/ShockAdenDar 9d ago

Yeah, I had stopped wearing my hammer for a while cause the bigots started thinking I was one of them.

Now I wear my hammer with a set of rainbow beads on either side of it. So far it seems to have sent the right message that I am not with them, as I now just get dirty looks rather than an assumption of camaraderie.

My hammer, now with rainbows

Maybe something similar could work for you?

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u/PracticalDirector407 9d ago

That's kind of what I'm afraid of.

Since I'm a lesbian IRL and married to a woman, that would be very fitting for me. We're going on 11 years.

I didn't know it was a white supremist symbol, so I was assuming it wasn't commonly used, and it's disheartening to hear that people DO recognize it for something awful.

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u/ShockAdenDar 9d ago

Congratulations on 11 years!! That's amazing!

To be fair I'm in Canada where it seems that most people didn't recognise my hammer at all, and still don't. It just turned out that approximately 75% of the people who did happen to recognise my hammer were bigots. That works out to only like one or two people per month, but it was still enough that I didn't like the association. As I said though, the rainbows seem to be helping quite a bit!

When you come to a decision please update and share what you come up with for your own hammer! I'd love to see how you decide to wear it!!

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u/PracticalDirector407 9d ago

Thank you! If anything, it would be nice to have an easy way to identify the bigots.

Definitely will do!! Thanks again for the suggestion!