Freyja, the Great Goddess of the North
Author: Britt-Mari Näsström
Publisher: Coronet Books
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 256
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Author: Britt-Mari Näsström
Publisher: Coronet Books
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 256
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Tammy Gagne
Publisher: Legendary Goddesses
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 33
ISBN-13: 1543575552
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMove over, Aphrodite! In Norse mythology, Freya rules over love and beauty. Learn the story behind the Norse goddess of love in this empowering and engaging narrative. Hear the compelling myths that surround this powerful goddess and find out where she fits in a family of gods. Additonal facts explore Freya's role in Scandinavian culture and how the goddess's influence appears in popular culture today.
Author: Lynda C. Welch
Publisher: Weiser Books
Published: 2001-04-01
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9781578631704
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA thorough, academic look at the past, present, and future of Norse polytheism. Welch highlights many Norse goddesses as well as other divine females of the Norse pantheon - Valkyries, Norns, Giantesses, Disir - and in a straightforward manner, makes a definitive case for the primordial goddess.
Author: David Leeming
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Published: 2016-03-15
Total Pages: 178
ISBN-13: 1780235380
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor as long as we have sought god, we have found the goddess. Ruling over the imaginations of humankind’s earliest agricultural civilizations, she played a critical spiritual role as a keeper of nature’s fertile powers and an assurance of the next sustaining harvest. In The Goddess, David Leeming and Christopher Fee take us all the way back into prehistory, tracing the goddess across vast spans of time to tell the epic story of the transformation of belief and what it says about who we are. Leeming and Fee use the goddess to gaze into the lives and souls of the people who worshipped her. They chart the development of traditional Western gender roles through an understanding of the transformation of concepts of the Goddess from her earliest roots in India and Iran to her more familiar faces in Ireland and Iceland. They examine the subordination of the goddess to the god as human civilizations became mobile and began to look upon masculine deities for assurances of survival in movement and battle. And they show how, despite this history, the goddess has remained alive in our spiritual imaginations, in figures such as the Christian Virgin Mother and, in contemporary times, the new-age resurrection of figures such as Gaia. The Goddess explores this central aspect of ancient spiritual thought as a window into human history and the deepest roots of our beliefs.
Author: Juha Pentikäinen
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2011-07-11
Total Pages: 397
ISBN-13: 3110811677
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe series Religion and Society (RS) contributes to the exploration of religions as social systems– both in Western and non-Western societies; in particular, it examines religions in their differentiation from, and intersection with, other cultural systems, such as art, economy, law and politics. Due attention is given to paradigmatic case or comparative studies that exhibit a clear theoretical orientation with the empirical and historical data of religion and such aspects of religion as ritual, the religious imagination, constructions of tradition, iconography, or media. In addition, the formation of religious communities, their construction of identity, and their relation to society and the wider public are key issues of this series.
Author: Patricia M. Lafayllve
Publisher:
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 72
ISBN-13: 9781598004212
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn Insightful Look at a Complex Deity Freyja, Lady, Vanadis: An Introduction to the Goddess examines Freyja, perhaps the best-known goddess of Norse mythology. Using original source material, extant writings, and scholarship the author builds an image of the goddess as she may have appeared to her followers in pre-Christian Northern Europe. Patricia Lafayllve then uses the knowledge she has compiled to speculate on aspects of modern worship of this complex deity.
Author: Annie Klingensmith
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Published: 1894
Total Pages: 112
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: H. Davidson
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 1990-12-13
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 0141941502
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSurveys the pre-Christian beliefs of the Scandinavian and Germanic peoples. Provides an introduction to this subject, giving basic outlines to the sagas and stories, and helps identify the charachter traits of not only the well known but also the lesser gods of the age.
Author: William P. Reaves
Publisher:
Published: 2018-12-08
Total Pages: 364
ISBN-13: 9780578430843
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor more than a millennium, the people of Northern Europe venerated an Earth Mother, the oldest attested Germanic deity. Called by a number of names, when the accounts are compared, common traits emerge. Most often identified as Odin's wife, she is Queen of Heaven and Mother of the Gods, roles firmly rooted in her Indo-European pedigree.
Author: Nancy Farmer
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2015-06-30
Total Pages: 496
ISBN-13: 1481443089
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAfter Jack becomes apprenticed to a Druid bard, he and his little sister Lucy are captured by Viking Berserkers and taken to the home of King Ivar the Boneless and his half-troll queen, leading Jack to undertake a vital quest to Jotunheim, home of the trolls.