Friday 9 July 2021

FREYA

 

When Christianity reached Scandinavia, St Lucia dethroned a pagan goddess to become the most revered female figure.

In Norse mythology the pagan goddess Freya was the most beautiful goddess of love and fertility to whom sacrifices were offered at Yule.

She was the daughter of the god Njord and the sister of Freyr and married to the mysterious god Od who disappeared, she mourned so much for the loss of her husband that she wept tears of gold.

Freya wore the bright necklace of the Brisings and a cloak of bird feathers which allowed her to change into a falcon, and

her chariot was pulled by two cats.

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