Also called Mani, the Moon.
Their story
Máni and his sister Sól are the children of Mundilfari, who named them after the moon and the sun, and the gods set them in the sky to guide the heavenly bodies. Máni steers the moon and rules its waxing and waning, and he once took up two children, Bil and Hjúki, as they carried water from the well Byrgir, and they travel with him still. He is chased across the sky by the wolf Hati, who will catch him at the end of the world.
Their day
Monday. Old English Mōnandæg, the day of the moon.
Best times to give to them
- Mondays
- the full moon
- the new crescent
- late at night
What they like being given
- a cup of clean water left out in the moonlight
- milk, or mead, or a glass of apple juice
- silver coins or jewellery
- white flowers
- a candle lit at moonrise
How to honour them
- Step outside each Monday night or at each full moon and greet him by name.
- Keep a moon calendar and mark each phase as a small ritual.
- Leave a bowl of water on the windowsill under the full moon as an offering.
- Ask his protection over children and anyone travelling at night.
- Keep a dream journal and offer it to him.
How they can help you
- sleep and dreams
- keeping time and rhythm
- protection for children and night travellers
- emotional tides
- cycles of change
Symbols
- the moon
- the children Bil and Hjúki with their pail and pole
- the wolf Hati who chases him
- silver
In Norse tradition the moon is male and the sun female, unlike in classical myth.
More Norse beings
- Skaði Huntress of the snowy mountains
- Sól The Sun, who drives her bright horses
- Nótt Night, mother of Day
- Dagr Day, the bright son of Night
- Jörð The Earth, mother of Thor
- Rán Mistress of the deep, who gathers the drowned
- Ægir Lord of the sea and brewer for the gods
- The Norns The weavers of fate at the well of Urðr