Aphrodite: Sea goddess of the ancient Greeks (reblog)
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by solsdottir
4y ago
Aphrodite is today best-known as the ‘goddess of love,’ but among the ancient Greeks she was also important in maritime religion, trade and travel. Read more here. Image by Pexels from Pixabay.     ..read more
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Airmid – Celtic Goddess of Healing and Herbal Lore (reblog)
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by solsdottir
4y ago
Airmid, also known as Airmed or Airmeith, is the Celtic Goddess of the Healing Arts. She was  a member of the Tuatha De Danaan, the most ancient race of deities in Ireland and just as they did, she had great magickal powers… Read more here. Image by Couleur on Pixabay ..read more
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Eir: Goddess, Valkyrie and Healer
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by solsdottir
4y ago
Eir is a puzzling figure in Norse mythology. Snorri Sturluson, who set out to explain Norse mythology in his Prose Edda, explains Eir in two different ways in the two main books, Gylfaginning and Skaldskaparmal. Goddess or Valkyrie? In the first, he calls her a goddess, one of the many minor goddesses who cluster around Frigg, but in the second he calls her a valkyrie. Third is Eir. She is an extremely good physician. (Gylf. 35, Faulkes’ trans.) There are yet others, Odin’s maids, Hild and Gondul, Hlokk, Mist, Skogul. Then are listed Hrund and Eir, Hrist, Skuld. They are called norns who sha ..read more
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Grottasöngr: giantesses vs. the king
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by solsdottir
4y ago
You wouldn’t expect a Norse myth to be a parable on economic exploitation, and how bad deeds rebound on the doer. Grottasöngr, a story of how king Frodi forced two giantesses to work a mill without cease, and thus wrought his own destruction, is an unusual myth. You can read the poem here, or here. Most of the Eddic poems come from the Codex Regius, a manuscript collection, but Grottasongr and other poems (Baldrs draumr, Hyndluljod, and Rigsthula, among others) were collected up from various places. Grottasongr survived only because one copyist of Snorris Edda (the Prose Edda) copied out the ..read more
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Review of Women Who Fly (reblog)
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by solsdottir
4y ago
Serinity Young’s Women Who Fly: Goddesses, Witches, Mystics, and Other Airborne Females, is a cross-cultural, multi-period, feminist study of flying women in myth, literature, ritual, and history. Through examination of sky-going females evident within the religions and iconography of the Ancient Near East, Europe, and Asia, as well as in shamanic, Judeo-Christian, and Islamic cultures, the author creates a typology of flying women through history that culminates in an examination of 20th century fictional airborne women and real female aviators. Read more here. Photo by Cherry Laithang on Un ..read more
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Cocidius: warrior god
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by solsdottir
4y ago
The Roman Empire was never shy about adopting deities from other lands. Isis, Mithra, Cybele all became wildly popular, perhaps because their cults were different from the staid Roman deities. All three of these cults came to Rome, but others had the Romans come to them. The Gaulish goddess Epona got a place in the Roman calendar after they invaded Gaul, and soon after the Romans started garrisoning the stretch that would become Hadrian’s Wall in Britain, they adopted the local warrior gods for their own. We know Cocidius and another god, Belatucadros, were worshipped by the soldiers as well ..read more
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Burning like a silver flame: The Mother of Rome and the Patroness of ancient Wine Festivals (reblog)
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by solsdottir
4y ago
Originally the early Latin goddess of vegetation, a patroness of vineyards and gardens, Venus became deliberately associated with the Greek Goddess Aphrodite and assumed many of her aspects. The name of Venus then became interchangeable with Aphrodite as most of the tales of these two goddesses are identical. However, like every Roman gods with their Greek counterparts, there were differences. Venus arguably became more popular in ancient Rome, and became more ingrained in the city life. She took on the aspect of a gracious Mother Goddess full of pure love as well as assuming the divine respon ..read more
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Inventing Folklore: The Origins of the Green Man (reblog)
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by solsdottir
4y ago
James Frazer has a lot to answer for. He was born in 1854 in Glasgow, Scotland. He became a Fellow of Classics at Trinity College, Cambridge. From there he leapfrogged sideways into folklore studies and comparative anthropology, two disciplines he knew nothing about (although to be fair, at the time, neither did anyone else really.) His masterwork was The Golden Bough, two volumes of meticulously researched albeit fairly wrong comparative mythology from all over the world. Find out more about James Frazer, Lady Raglan, and the Green Man. And read Lady Raglan’s original article. (PDF link) Imag ..read more
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Diana: Sky Goddess?
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by solsdottir
4y ago
One thing that’s always puzzled me about the theory that Indo-European languages are a guide to the mythologies of the peoples who speak them is the reluctance to take up the question of Diana and other “Divine” goddesses. After all, if *Dyéus is the sky-father, are Diana, Divona, Dione and Divuša sky-mothers? Part of the answer, of course, is “we don’t know”, since most of the interest in Indo-European mythologies focuses on Dumézil’s three functions (king, warrior, producer) and the goddess who takes in all three functions. Nature-deities, although their names are easy to track through the ..read more
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