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Freya
Daughter of the Vanier God, Njord, Freya is the twin sister of the Golden God Freyr. Beautiful beyond belief, She is the origin of the word "treasure", and many great epics are written of Gods trying to win Her hand in mariage. She is not a virginal Goddess, and older stories exist of Her mariage to a God named Od. Upon His death, She cried tears of gold. These tears of gold dropped into the sea, and became the sacred stone of amber. After the great war of the Gods, Freya and Freyr went to live with the Aesir Gods to preserve the peace.
Known as "The Lady", Freya is the Queen of the Valkyries. These warrior women chose who among those slain on the battlefield will go on to Asgard. Freya chooses the first half with the rest going to Odin. Those chosen by Her retire to Her great Hall...Sessrumnir. She is the creater of the shamanic magick Seidhr, which She taught to Odin. This magick was mostly reserved for women, and while some men practiced it, these men dressed as women. With the advent of Christianity, all women who practiced this art were massacred so that to this day, we do not know what the Seidhr rites were. It is believed Freya is a carryover of an older Maternal religion who was worked into the patriarchal system. Since women of the Norse culture were the equals of the men, it is not suprising that Freya is a very independant Goddess, capable of determining Her own fate.
Freya is the Goddess of sex and magick. Warrior Goddess aside, She is also a Goddess of birth, sensuality, poetry and honor. She owns a feather coat so She can fly between worlds, and the great necklace Brisingamen for which She slept with four dwarfs. She travels in a chariot drawn by cats and it is believed that Friday is named for Her.
Freya is often portrayed in armor, often in Her chariot. She is a beautiful woman in Her prime. Amber, cats and love matters are sacred to Her.
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