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Freyja is the Norse goddess of love, beauty, fertility and seiðr, one of the Vanir who came to live in Asgard. These are the pages where she appears.
A goddess of the Vanir
On Vanir gods represent the more peaceful and nurturing aspects of existence Freyja stands with Njörðr and Freyr, and she oversees part of the afterlife in her hall, Fólkvangr. On Æsir-Vanir War the war begins over Gullveig, a figure tied to gold and possibly Freyja herself. On Asgard the Vanir, Freyja among them, settle in the home of the gods after the truce.
Coveted and borrowed
On Thor and Hrungnir the drunken giant boasts that he will bury Asgard and carry Freyja and Sif back to Jötunheim. On The Forbidden Fruit Loki borrows Freyja’s falcon cloak, turns into a falcon and flies Idunn and her apples back to Asgard.
Stars and days
On Pleiades and Orion the stars of Orion were thought to be part of Freyja’s gown, and on The Pleiadians the Pleiades are sometimes linked with her. Max Heindel, in The Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception, names the day after her:
Friday is named for the Norse goddess of beauty, "Freya," and for similar reasons, the Latins call it "Dies Veneris," or Day of Venus.
Max Heindel, The Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception (1911)
On Venus she is one of the love goddesses tied to the planet.
Nehalennia and Mary
On The Oera Linda Book Reviewed Hilda Ellis Davidson sets the ship of the goddess Nehalennia beside the symbols of the Vanir, Freyr and Freyja. Hermann Wieland, in Atlantis, Edda und Bibel (1925), goes much further and makes Freya the same figure as Mary, Maja, Isis and Mylitta.
Related pages
- Vanir gods represent the more peaceful and nurturing aspects of existence
- Æsir-Vanir War
- Asgard
- Thor and Hrungnir
- The Forbidden Fruit
- Pleiades and Orion
- The Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception
- The Oera Linda Book Reviewed
- Atlantis, Edda und Bibel (1925)
For every page I tagged with Freyja, see the Freyja tag archive.
