Goddess Series Freya Freya (Old Norse Freyja, “Lady” or “mistress”) is one of the preeminent goddesses in Norse mythology. She’s a member of the Vanir tribe of deities, who were associated with nature, wild places, animals and unseen realms, but became an honorary member of the Aesir gods (deities of the sky and intellect) after the Aesir-Vanir War. Freyr is her brother; these divine twins were the Norse deities of untamed nature. Her husband, named Odr in late Old Norse literature, many argue, is the same God as Odin. This confusion has also led to suggestions that Frigg and Freya are the same Goddess, as both were married to Odin and had a magical feathered cloak. Freya had two children named Hnoss (jewel) and Gemesi (treasure). This Goddess took many of the Gods as her lovers including the trickster Loki. Although she had many affairs she loved her husband deeply and when he went missing she cried tears of gold (when over land) and amber (when over the sea). Freya is famous for her fondness of love, fertility, beauty, and fine material possessions and, because of these predilections, she’s considered to be something of the “party girl” of the Aesir. She’s certainly a passionate seeker of pleasures and thrills, but she’s a lot more than only that. Freya is the archetype of the völva, a professional or semi-professional practitioner of Seidr, the most organized form of Norse magic. Seidr is a pre-Christian Norse shamanism concerned with discerning destiny and altering its course by re-weaving part of its web. Also, Seidr is a type of trance magic who’s fully realized forms include shape shifting and astral projection. It was she who first brought this art to the gods, and, by extension, to humans as well. Given her expertise in controlling and manipulating the desires, health, and prosperity of others, she’s a being whose knowledge and power are almost without equal. Freya also possessed falcon plumes that allowed their bearer to shift his or her shape into that of a falcon. To read more check out the Blog post on our website... gowonderworks/node/1680
Posted on: Sun, 09 Nov 2014 17:00:00 +0000
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