Ratatoskr Wooden Statue | Hand-Carved Norse Squirrel of Yggdrasil | Ash Wood Pagan Art Color:Brown the presence of something greater

the presence of something greater

Rooted in the heart of Norse cosmology

shaped in our family workshop

and it is not easy to circle her

She travels in darkness and returns in the spring

Ratatoskr Wooden Statue | Hand-Carved Norse Squirrel of Yggdrasil | Ash Wood Pagan Art Color:Brown the presence of something greaterIn Norse mythology, Ratatoskr is the red squirrel who races endlessly up and down Yggdrasil the great World Tree carrying messages between the eagle perched at its crown and the serpent Nhggr gnawing at its roots. He is a creature of perpetual motion, sharp wit, and cosmic mischief; a trickster spirit who keeps the tension of the universe alive. This hand carved Ratatoskr statue captures that restless, quicksilver energy in warm ecological ash wood,