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Mother Earth School of Witchcraft

Lesson #1

Freya Research

Shane Staten

The Goddess Freya

Known as Lady of the Black swordhand Freya is the Goddess

of Love, Fertility, Beauty, Witchcraft, War, & Death; and is Queen

of the Valkyries. She is the daughter of Fjord and his unnamed

Van sister/wife (also the parents of Freya's brother Freyr/ or Frey).

Freya, like her father and her brother, is of the Vanir, but came to

live with the Aesir. Her hall is called Sussrumnir and lies in the

fields of Asgard. Freya is known to listen to the prayers of lovers

and helps them when she can.

One of Freya's most renowned possessions is her feathered

cloak, which allows her to turn into a Raven and take flight. Shehas been known to lend the cloak to other Gods when they have

needed it. She married Od, who was constantly away; and so she

has had many lovers. One time while he was away she cried

tears of gold for him, used her cloak to find him, and when she

finally did discover him, he had been turned into a hideous sea

monster. Nonetheless, she loved him very much and stayed with

him until he died. Upon his murder she became acrimonious,

threatening to kill the gods. To set her at ease they offered Od a

place in Valhalla, regardless of the fact that he had not died a

hero on the battlefield. Some sources say that Odin was the

husband of Freya, and with him being allowed in to Valhalla, it

seems their might be connection between Freya's Od and the all

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father Odin. Freya learned the purposes and powers of the Runes

from Odin in exchange for teaching him Seidr (Norse Sorcery).

Freya was the leader of the Valkyries, women who rode

winged horses over battlefields and took the souls of noblewarriors who died in battle to feast at Valhalla with the Gods. At

the feast the souls were divided between Freya and Odin; those

that would go with Odin stayed at Valhalla, and those that would

go with Freya went to her hall Sussrumnir, in the field Folkvang.

These women were ordinary women, bred to be priestesses who

then became Valkyrie, and later evolved into the famous Norns;

Great Goddesses who weave the fates and histories of the human

race. Freya is also the Goddess of the ancestral deities the Disir,

who give guidance and help seekers see into the future. She is

the patroness to women of renown power and wisdom. As of late

in more common times she is known to be a Goddess of the Faery

realm. Freya has the ability to travel all nine worlds of the

Icelandic cosmic system, also known as Yggdrasil.

Resources:

The Goddess-guide @ http://www.goddess-guide.com/freya.html

Wikipedia @ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freyja

Goddess Freya.info @

http://www.goddessfreyja.info/about_freya.htm

Valkyrietower @ http://valkyrietower.com/freyja.html

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