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SOPHIA OF WISDOM III - FREYA CAROLYN BESSETTE
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THE LIBRARY OF SOPHIA OF WISDOM III
THE SOPHIA OF ALL SOPHIA OF WISDOMS
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CAROLINE E. KENNEDY_______________________________
OCTOBER 21, 2006
FREYA-DEMON
CAROLYN BESSETTE KENNEDY
Amen was the ,ost powerful man on earth and his sub-entities carry the pattern of highest power but they also carry the patter of being destrpyed by a woman. Therefore,everytime a sub-entity of Amun rose or was about to rise to highest power or status of Celebrity and encountered and bonded with a sub-entity of FREYA this Amun sub-entity experienced violent death within several years.
Freyja, in an illustration to Wagner's operas by Arthur Rackham.Freyja (sometimes anglicized as Freya or Freja), sister of Freyr and daughter of Niord (Njǫrđr), is usually seen as the Norse fertility goddess.
Freyja means "lady" in Old Norse (cf. fru or Frau in Scandinavian and German). While there are some sources suggesting that she was called on to bring fruitfulness to fields or wombs, she was a goddess of love, beauty, sex, and attraction. She was also the goddess of war, death, magic, prophecies, and wealth. Correspondingly, Freyja was one of the most popular goddesses.
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1 Prose Edda
2 Freyja as goddess of love
3 Freyja as battle goddess
4 Freyja as a witch
5 Other names
5.1 Forms of "Freyja"
5.2 Other forms
6 Homologues
7 References
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Prose Edda
In Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda, Freyja is introduced as follows.
Njörđr í Nóatúnum gat síđan tvau börn, hét sonr Freyr en dóttir Freyja. Ţau váru fögr álitum ok máttug. ... Freyja er ágćtust af ásynjum, hon á ţann bś á himni er Fólkvangar heita, ok hvar sem hon ríđr til vígs, ţá á hon hálfan val, en hálfan Óđinn ...
Salr hennar, Sessrýmnir, hann er mikill ok fagr. En er hon ferr, ţá ekr hon köttum tveim ok sitr í reiđ. Hon er nákvćmust mönnum til á at heita, ok af hennar nafni er ţat tignarnafn er ríkiskonur eru kallađar fróvur. Henni líkađi vel mansöngr. Á hana er gott at heita til ásta.
Gylfaginning, Eysteinn Björnsson's edition [1] Njördr in Nóatún begot afterward two children: the son was called Freyr, and the daughter Freyja; they were fair of face and mighty. ... Freyja is the most renowned of the goddesses; she has in heaven the dwelling called Fólkvangr, and where so ever she rides to the strife, she has one-half of the kill, and Odin half ...
Her hall Sessrúmnir is great and fair. When she goes forth, she drives her cats and sits in a chariot; she is most conformable to man's prayers, and from her name comes the name of honor, Frú, by which noblewomen are called. Songs of love are well-pleasing to her; it is good to call on her for furtherance in love.
Gylfaginning, Brodeur's translation [2]
Snorri also mentions that Freyja had a husband named Odr. He often went away on long journeys, and for this reason Freyja cried tears of red gold. The Lay of Hyndla also names a protégé of Freyja, Óttar.
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Freyja as goddess of love
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Freyja, in a painting by J. Penrose.Freyja was thought to be the most desirable of all goddesses. When she desired to acquire the famous necklace Brisingamen (Brísingamen) from four dwarfs, (Dvalin, Alfrik, Berling, and Grer), they desired a night each with her, a demand which she eventually acceded to. Later on, Odin made Loki steal the necklace for him, and demanded the same price of Freyja as the dwarves had, though he eventually relented.
Freyja loved jewelery so much that she named her daughter "Hnoss", meaning "jewel". Besides the necklace Brísingamen, she owned a cloak of hawk/eagle feathers, which gave her the ability to change into any bird. She lends this garment to Loki in Ţrymskviđa.
Early traditions do not distinguish clearly between Freyja and Frigg, though the names have different origins and in the later Scandinavian mythology, Freyja and Frigg were obviously not one and the same, being different goddesses with separate functions, personalities and symbols. They appeared in the same text together on many occasions, however. Some sources say Freyja was married to Odin, most likely due to Frigg and Freyja once being the same character, and Loki claims that she had a sexual relationship with her brother Freyr in Lokasenna. See more at the entry for Frigg.
In two myths a giant wants to marry Freyja; the owner of Svađilfari as related in Gylfaginning and Ţrymr as related in Ţrymskviđa. Both were ultimately deceived and killed by the gods.
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Freyja as battle goddess
There are no instances of Freyja being referred to as a goddess of battle or warriors. She never wields a weapon.
The earliest example of Freyja's association with war comes from Sorli's Yarn alias The Saga of Hogni and Hedin written in 1400c.e.. It is not-so-vague attempt to immortalize the Christian King Olaf Tryggvason in mythic terms. His ascension to rulership and subsequent conversion to Christianity of all Norway became the culmination of prophecy and the even the will and direct action of Heathen Gods. Odin himself, in this tale, declared it to be so. Also here, Freyja steps completely out of character and urges a man to commit murder and kidnapping to start a war. She does not step into battle herself, nor does she ever touch a weapon. This clearly non-original story should not have had the power it did over the centuries. It is quite clear that this deliberate work is the origin for most 'Freyja-as-War-Goddess' conceptualizations known today. Without Olaf Tryggvison's conversion at the heart of the story - there is no story. Snorri Sturlusson even writes about the same war and Olaf's victory WITHOUT making any reference to Freyja or the old gods at all - and his version predates Sorli's Yarn.
Freyja rides a boar called Hildisvín the Battle-Swine. In the poem Hyndluljóđ, we are told that in order to conceal Ottar, Freyja transformed him into the guise of a boar. The boar has special associations within Norse Mythology, both relative to the notion of fertility (and wonderfully phallyc symbol) and also as a protective talisman in war, probably because real boars can be quite fierce animals. Seventh century Swedish helmet plates depict warriors with large boars as their crests, and a boar-crested helmet has survived from Anglo-Saxon time and was retrieved from a tumulus at Benty Grange in Derbyshire. In Beowulf, it is said that a boar on the helmet was there to guard the life of the warrior wearing it.
Other sources show that Freyja rode a chariot drawn by a pair of cats the size of lions.
Freyja rides her cat-driven chariot in this romantic painting by Nils Blommér.Freyja receives some of those warriors slain on the battlefield but there is no record of how that occurs them. Does Freyja pick them herself? Or does Odin or the Valkyries decide? There are no answers to these questions.
It is said in Grímnismál:
The ninth hall is Folkvang, where bright Freyja
Decides where the warriors shall sit:
Some of the fallen belong to her,
And some belong to Odin.
In Egil's saga, Thorgerda (Ţorgerđr), threatens to commit suicide in the wake of her brother's death, saying: "I shall not eat until I sup with Freyja". This should be taken to mean that she expected to pass to Her hall upon her death. Any greater association with Freyja and death is not supported.
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Freyja as a witch
According to Snorri's Ynglinga saga, Freyja was a skilled practitioner of the seiđr form of magic and introduced among the Ćsir. It has also been widely speculated that the Gullveig mentioned in Völuspá was Freyja under another name.
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Other names
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Forms of "Freyja"
Freja — common Danish and literary Swedish form.
Freia
Froya
Friia — second Merseburg Charm
Frija — variant of Friia
Frřya, Fröa — common Norwegian, and rural Swedish form.
Reija — Finnish form
Freya
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Other forms
According to Snorri Sturluson's Gylfaginning (35), Freyja also bore the following names:
Mardöll, whose etymology is uncertain, also appears in kennings for gold;
Hörn, which may be related to the word hörr meaning "flax", "linen" (Hörn is also listed in the ţulur as a giantess name);
Gefn, which means "the giver", is a suitable name for a fertility goddess;
Sýr, whose translation is "sow", illustrates the association of the Vanir with pigs (cf. Freyr's boar Gullinbursti).
She is also called Vanadís ("Dís of the Vanir").
Some of these names (Hörn, Sýr, Gefn, Mardöll) are also listed in a ţula which also supplies:
Ţrungva;
Skjálf, which is also the name of the wife and murderer of king Agni.
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Homologues
Freyja might be considered the counterpart of Venus and Aphrodite, although she has a combination of attributes no known goddess possesses in the mythology of any other ancient Indo-European people and might be regarded as closer to the Mesopotamian Ishtar as being involved in both love and war. It is also sometimes thought that she is the most direct mythological descendant from Nerthus.[citation needed]
There is also frequent modern speculation that Freija is the same as Frigg (see the discussion under Connection between Frigg and Freyja).
Britt-Mari Näsström posits in her "Freyja: Great Goddess of the North" that there is a tenable connection from Freyja to other Goddesses worshipped along the migration path of the Indo-Europeans who consistently appeared with either one or two cats/lions as companions, usually in the war Goddess aspect but occasionally also as a love Goddess. These would include: Durga, Eriskegal, Sekhmet, Menhit, Bast, Anat, Asherah, Nana, Cybele, Rhea, and others. That the name Freyja translates to the deliberately ambiguious title of "Lady" infers that like Odin, She wandered and bore more names than are perhaps remembered in the modern age.
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References
Egils Saga
Grímnismál
Lokasenna
Snorri Sturluson, The Prose Edda
H. R. Ellis Davidson, Gods and Myths of Northern Europe
E. O. G. Turville-Petre, Myth and Religion of the North
Jan de Vries, Altgermanische Religionsgeschichte, 2nd Edition (the seminal work of reference on Germanic and Scandinavian religion).
Norse mythology
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