❥ Freyja: Goddess of Love and War

This is our third swap in the series. I hope you are enjoying them and I love hearing feedback. If you can't make this our next deity will be showing up soon! Enjoy!

The details: You must send your partner 4 items relating to the deity in some way. This can be interpreted as you wish but make sure to include a note explaining the interpretations. You must spend a minimum of 10$, but can include some handmade items (just not all handmade.)

Our goddess for the next two weeks is Freyja. I chose her for the season of love we are moving into. Of course nothing has changed since the time of the Vikings and love often goes hand in hand with war :)

❥❥Freyja The Norse goddess of fertility, love, sexuality, gold, magic, war, and death. She rides a chariot pulled by cats and is accompanied by a boar. She is a member of the Vanir, which were the fertility/healing deities of the Norse pantheon where as the Aesir were the war gods. These are the two families of Norse gods.Freyja rules over the battlefield afterlife: Folkvangr, and receives half of the slain warriors there (the other half go to Valhalla, Odins hall.) Friday is named after Freyja. She has a twin brother named Freyr, who is also a fertility deity. She also has a magical cloak made of feathers which allows her to fly between realms and it is often borrowed by the other gods and goddesses. Freyja was one of the most worshipped female goddesses in Norse mythology and there are many who still follow her.

From simplewikipedia.com: "Freyja married a god called Odr. She deeply loves her husband, but he often went away on long journeys, and Freyja cried red golden tears for him. Her tears become gold and amber when they fall to Earth, therefore gold was called "Freyja's tears". They have two beautiful daughters called Hnoss and Gersemi"

"Freyja's name means "the Lady".

The day of the week, Friday, is named either after her, or after Odin's wife Frigg. The Orion was called Frigg's distaff or Freyja's girdle. Frigg and Freyja may be one and the same goddess.

Freyja is also widely known as Vanadis, which means Lady of the Vanir. The metallic element Vanadium was named after her. The Vanir are close relatives of elves. Freyr is the Lord of the elves, his sacred realm is Alfheim, home of the elves.

Another well-known name of goddess Freyja is Gefn, which means "Giver", a suitable name for the fertility goddess.

Freyja represents the Norse women of Viking Age, whose husbands often went away to war. From Freyja's name, noble Norse women are called Fru, wives are called house-fru. And Frau means "woman" in German."