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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