Freyja - Norse goddess of fertility, war, and gold 💚
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I feel like people don't know how to use Freya in their works.
She is one of the most interesting and complex goddesses in the entire Norse Pantheon. She is strong, brave, a warrior, at the same time as she is delicate and feminine.
She has people wanting to use her as a tool because of her appearance, and that would be a very interesting issue to work on considering how women are objectified even today.
She likes cats, which makes her even better <3
She is the queen of the valkyries. She rules Fólkvangr. She has the ability to see the future and can use magic. She is goddess of love, war, fertility and death.
It has so many interesting aspects. For me, she has always been the coolest of the gods and my favorite since I was a child.
I remember that I bought the book Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard, in the biggest animation to see her in history, and the cartoonish way she was portrayed there disappointed me so much.
I miss a satisfactory representation of her, because she is one of the most important Norse goddesses, but I feel like no franchise or form of media does her justice or portrays her greatness.
Honestly, I buy books on Norse mythology to find out more about her, her stories and her adventures, but she always only has brief quotes, and as a passive figure in other people's stories, only in short passages.
Which is extremely frustrating and unfair, considering Freya is one of the Norse goddesses we have the most information about 😣
OH YES.
I often complain about how writers butcher Sigyn's character, but mommy dearest gets her deal of sh*t too...
She's mostly depicted as sexually agressive and/or predatory, which is utterly RIDICULOUS, and so mysogynistic??? Meanwhile, the ACTUAL sexual predator Odin is FINE XDXD
Well, at least she had SOME good representation in the God of War games, and appeared once in the Marvel cartoons, with a pretty cool armor... which is more than we can say about her darling daughter XD
I think people misunderstand her because
MYSOGYNY.
Just like for Sigyn, they can't understand her duality. To most people, women can be OR wh*res, or madonnas, or sweet and feminine, OR warriors. Well, Freya is a bit of EVERYTHING. She's the Princess of Vanaheim, YES SHE LOVES SEX, SO WHAT ABOUT IT?, yes she's beautiful and feminine , and YES she's ALSO a powerful Valkyrie and warrior. Also, a powerful magician, wielding both Seidr and Galdr...
And I agree with you, the cat thing is so cool <3
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Bored at work. Yeet gifs of what you want to do to them at the girls
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I used to be pagan for many, many years, but converted to Judaism a few years ago after reconnecting with my heritage and I have been identifying as a Jewitch since then.
But tonight, Freyja reached out to me in a huge way, and I felt like she was calling me. I think of deities as just another face of one Divine but the guilt I feel about opening up a dialogue with her after my conversion is so strong.
I don’t know what to do. I cried when I felt a warm golden light. I’ve often struggled to connect with a faceless concept of Divinity though I see G-d in all things, but this felt incredibly comforting and real.
I know I could just work with her and not worship her - which is my intention, anyway - but I still feel like I’m a bad Jewish person for this experience. I already feel for calling the Divine exclusively Her, and feeling most called to the Shekinah. I didn’t want or ask for this to happen, but I feel like I can’t ignore it.
I feel so at home in my Jewish life and in my Jewish community and in my Jewish soul and I feel so, so grateful to have been called home. But I have been lacking a feeling of Divine connection for so long and I feel like my soul is being torn in half. I know I can’t have both. I know some people consider the idea of other deities as simply aspects of HaShem, but I don’t know - it does feel wrong to me. I just want to feel Divine connection and I felt so safe and cared for in that moment. I don’t know what to do.
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