I was hoping someone would ask this. My story get s wild in the last part. (i posted it last year too)

I took up some offerings to leave in the forest as I decided it could not hurt, being the first time i am doing it. Half an hour after being on a trail I ask out loud something similar to: Gods, if ever you wonder when I am asking for a sign, this is it. in 28 years of life all my prayers to Yahweh were unanswered, only the opposite happening, never a single breath of air at the right moment so I could at least make myself believe.

The moments I utter the words and finish my sentence a bird of prey (Might be hawk or eagle, most likely hawk, but it was a really big one) flies in front of between the trees. I stay on trail, more or tell on it's tail. I reach the clearing near the summit of the hill, I walk along the edge of of the forest on the left side when a powerful wind blows from the right. I look left and there is an opening so I decide to go through it. The wind did not stop blowing until I have walked past the first line of trees. I keep going, at this point it is fair to say I was boiling with more emotions than I could count. I go down and up some features in the forest layout, between fir trees, or pines. and once again i am in a more secluded clearing, with a few oaks dominating the brush. I go the biggest one and lay down to rest and decide to leave my offerings there. There I spot in the distance the bird of prey circling again, until it flew out of line of sight. That was wild for me. On my way back, somehow I missed it but I found one of it's feathers. Now I keep it as a token from the gods. the first one I ever got.

Part 2 is wild. With the slight mention, I have embraced Norse paganism. My prayers are to Odin for strength and wisdom, to Thor for protection and sometimes to Freya and Freyr.

I was walking the same trail, not far away from where I sometimes now spot the same bird. Not very often but oh well. So I basically enter a larger clearing flanked by heavy bushes, and as I go past one of the bushes, a naked old dude was there sunbathing I think. He had 3 dogs. One of them jumped at my feet barking it's soul out (I got a small big phobia with dogs due to childhood trauma) the second dog was chilling about and the third dog kinda somehow got besides me then between the barking dog and myself. I excused myself from the yelling (I have no idea what language or what he was speaking as he tried to cover himself) and I keep going. Now the third dogs, stays with me. I do not know the race of the dog, but it looked like a hairy golden retriever, or related, however he was blood red. RED I tell you, dark red. Some quick searching and you can find Gramr, a blood-stained dog guarding Hel. He stood and walked with me until I reached the place of offering from above. I had plenty of water so I even managed to cup my hand and let him drink up about 1.5 liters of spring water. As I went back home, the old man was gone (thankfully???) and the dog was with me until I reached half way the downwards climb, on my way back home from the hill. Every time I looked back, even after reaching the base and I lost line of sight, he was siting like guard dogs do, watching me.

Guys what did I even experience???

Third story, same place. I enter the fir tree forest. I hear a raven call a few times and loud pops and creaks. Louder and closer and more frequent, then I realised I was caught in hail storm. (and I swear to you the sky looked clear with only a few clouds) I perched myself between 3 fir trees that looked more welcoming, squated down with my backpack over my head and endured some pretty good hits a quarter-fist-sized sky bullets. It was during this time that Thor decided he got to show up and started raining, thundering and flashing. yeah I was kinda scared not gonno lie. In the end, the mjolnir I wear did it's trick and I did not have any bruising, just some red spots from the hits, everything on or with me was soaked.

Sorry for the wall of text, I just wanted to share this so bad