Altars and Offerings for Odin
Colors: Grey, deep cobalt blue, black
Symbols: Spear, wolves, ravens, valknot.
Altar Suggestions: Pipe with tobacco, the Nine Sacred Herbs, ash leaves, elm leaves, parsley, woad, cinquefoil, horehound, periwinkle. Runes – especially Ansuz, Wunjo, Gebo and Othala.
Food and Drink: Good quality alcohol – mead, good dry red wine, whiskey and other hard liquor, especially aquavit. Smoked salmon. Red meat, especially beef. Spearlike vegetables such as leeks, asparagus, garlic – the latter actually means “spear-leek”.
Service Offerings: Make donations or volunteer your time to a veterans’ organization.
Contraindicated: Shirking military service.