In northern Germany, I am happy to see many young girls still being named Freya. I myself have named one of my daughters Freyja as well. Always been drawn to her magic. Great video.
@@theoryofthemobius dear ,give your life to Jésus Christ the son of God of Israël the truth God whose is gave his only Son yeshuahamashia for to save you from sin and the eternal flam.The gods and goddesses are under the orders and work with Satan to send the humans who worship the idols,devils and many gods in the eternal flames .Plse give your life to Jésus Christ before to late because the rapture is coming soon.Magic , fornication,sorcery are the ways for the Hell.Plse repent repent repent now before to late
@@stephanielaguerre1509 hu? Before Christianity came there were the old religions . Some were much more free as how religion is taught now or how women were and are seen . Also the days where we celebrate Christmas for example today, come from those holy days back then , called yule. Also the 12 holy mystic nights around december. So christianity took parts from old religions for their own. Because it Was easy to convince people to follow the New god 😌
@@stephanielaguerre1509 abrahamic lies, not natural to europe, not native to europe. christianity shouldve never entered our continent in the first place.
I find Freyja a most powerful, unusually proud goddess. I guess astrologically she relates to Venus, rather than to the Moon, as Venus is the proudest. She does not take second place to any male God, and she demands a true show of deference before she will appear to the querent. Thank you for your wisdom-soaked additions to the Nordic teachings. It is a great time to be alive.
That point right there you said is the key! "She does not take second place to any male God" I agreed. She is often depicted even my academics (and I get a lot of discussions with my collegues) as being second only to Odin. I think it's time to stop these social and gender boundaries. Each deity is important in its own field of expertise just like us. No one is second to anybody. No one should be treated as inferior We are all different and special in our own ways.
Thanks for your reply! Yes these particular gender roles were invented by the Christians and imposed on the nordic realms which were more respectful of the differentiated, pluriform nature of the world. A very notable difference between the Christian patriarchal god and Odin is that the latter is mortal. Odin doesn't master the universe, neither does he master Freyja - but he does master himself, which is the example he sets for us.
As Freyja is very important to me, I truly enjoyed this video (as well as others) and follow them with extreme interest as I think you capture the true essence and meaning of these deities :)
@@ArithHärger Plse i know it is your job but i tell you if not give your life to Jésus Christ now cause he is coming soon.the deities are under the control and work for Satan and their goals drive the humans races to the hell.Plse repent now or accept Jésus-Christ as your Lord and Savior
@@stephanielaguerre1509 don't try and convert others. If that is your belief fine but you only need to worry about your own soul not others. What others choose to follow is there own business. There are thousands of religions and 45.000 different protestant christian religion
The issue I take with calling these women prostitutes is that in the modern age our view of sex has changed so drastically and the role of a prostitute has changed with it. It's not enough to say "our ancestors didn't believe prostitution was bad" but rather that many (if not all) prostitutes took on a role similar to that of a priestess and used sex as their method of channeling the divinity of Freyja. Hardly some woman on a street corner offering to suck you off for a fiver. As sex started to be viewed as sinful and profane, so did prostitutes. It became a purely carnal profession.
id argue that its not necessarily the role of prostitutes that changed, but how prostitutes are treated and how their public image has warped into the "woman on a street corner offering to suck you off for a fiver" instead of a woman with a profession that many people relied on for sexual and romantic aid and guidance
@@ergoproxy7444 I know this is an old comment, and this isn't directly related, but I kind of relate it to how Levayan Satanists took the word Satan; originally, it was almost a slur, aimed toward people the Ancient Christians and Hebrews deemed evil, or corrupt, didn't matter what that person actually believed, simply meaning "enemy". There came a point where people decided, "If this is what you want to call people who do not submit to you, then we shall take that title gladly." It is a very personal choice, but that is how I've grown to understand the concept of reclaiming such labels.
Hello my friend, you already know what I think with regards to your work (book..hint) so I shall try and keep it short. Just know that I believe you are emerging like a butterfly from its cocoon with these vids and I'm very grateful for them.
Thank you! I do feel like a beautiful butterfly when making these videos :p just kiding, but seriously, I really appreciate your support and feedback, it's always great to receive praise for the things we do. Thank you for the motivation. I do hope to improve my videos especially for those like you who have been here since the beginning. I would rather keep the faithful ones rather than a new audience.
As crazy as it sounds, I am a Man of Color of Character, "black", living in America and recently found out through DNA my family name is "HOSSANDORFF". Long story short, my DNA explains the fascination I've had for Norse Mythology and the Vikings. I've always known "christianity" to be full of horse manure, just didn't know why. I'm going to be learning a lot from you.
Well met, Donald. Arith is an excellent source of information. This is a path with many books, and lots of homework. I traced my family back to the Isle of Jersey in 1340. Just after the end of the Viking raids, and with plenty of traders and migrants left from those times. The original name of the island was Gyr' Island anglophized to Jersey. Gyr being a Norse name probably pronounced "Gear". I love the Old Gods, and this rich tradition. I, like every other God, elf, and human, am crazy about Freya, and I think me and Odin would be great friends and traveling companions. Never a dull moment with these guys.
That’s a weird way of putting… It doesn’t matter. Animism has been how all ethnicities that ever existed related to the World for thousands of years. There are many African cultures that are extremely in touch with the spirits and the gods, you don’t need to use this “ancestry” to justify anything.
@@thepeopleslibrary8673 Well stated. This is something I have a lot to about. In time, I'll get there. Trial and error, live and learn is all I can do.
This is awesome. Thank you, this is much more “real” than many have been conditioned to believe. The poetic aspects can be interpreted to reflect reality, and for those who truly see and truly perceive. Also interesting that it’s known practice (example in Egypt with Lotus flowers) among seers and certain levels of spiritual mastery to involve sex for similar reasons. Hence the new age of such loose ends or sleeping around, people will do well to learn what happens when they share their bodies with others, much deeper than quantum entanglements 🙏🏼
Interessting. I have experience in Astrologie and more and more I see the similarity of the Olymp and Asgard. Venus is also known as Astarte, Diane the Hunting and Animal protecting one. Or as Aphrodite and Artemisia and she is the dothir of a Titan like Freya is a Vana and in relatioship to Gaja.
Thank you arithmetic I love the history myths and Freyja love the explanations and acknowledge your views on how things adapted to many thanks Stewart pollard Cronus England
Muito bom o feedback dos teus fiéis seguidores, deves sentir orgulho do teu trabalho e das tuas capacidades de inovar em cada novo vídeo! Para além de que o tema é bastante comum entre os humanos, algo com que nos identificamos e reconhecemos no nosso quotidiano! Obrigada adorei!
Frigga is the mother of Freyja with Njordr, many good studies on the folklore of the old norse and ancient germans. William P Reaves has done some interresting work on it just as Rydberg! Odr seems to have relations with Svipdagr, Skirnir, Hermodr, Ottar it is very interresting to dive deep in to the ways of our ancestors! I should say to you dive deeper
Dear Arith, did you ever heard of the germanic goddes Holle/Holda/Percht? She leads together with Wotan/Odin the wild hunt. She look after the souls of unborn children. She is a goddes of fertility, birth, death, like a combination of Freya, Frigg and Hel. Even her name sounds similar to Hel, but she is also very closely connect to birth and fertility. So she might be "the Lady"/Freia ( in Germany Freia is the name for Frigg, Freya is not really lokated in Germany). So this fits perfectly with your theorie. Maybe you would like to check. It is very interesting in this context.
Could this be similar to Parvati, Durga and Kali? Same Goddess but different aspects? I find it very irritating that Christianity took so much from so many.
She is many in one. Hathor, Isis or Nepthys, Mary Magdalene, inanna, Ishtar, Esther, batsheba, Shakti, Medusa, lady Nada, Sophia, the Phoenix, the little Mermaid, aka Melusine, Cleopatra, wonder Woman, etc etc....
Great video. I think Freya is more like Mary Magdaline. Not the catholic church's hoar version but the equal with Jesus, a priestess skilled in sacred sexuality. This makes more sense than the virgin mary archtype. There is also Marta/Martha who's name means Lady. She was also known when they left the middle east after jesus's "death", Marta tamed the dragon tarasque in what is now southern france, occitanie. There are some interesting connections, it seems. 🙏Again.
@@electrondady1475 sure Ill do my best! and please know that I have faith in you and youre gonna find what youre looking for. have faith and itll be alright, your significant other will be there for you! but please know that you can let other people be a part of your journey, but dont let them be your destination:) wishing u the best
I'd love to know where the connection is between freya and cards. You mentioned something about fertility and cards. I don't remember snorri mentioning that. Sounds interesting.
'Freyja was a giving Goddess (...)' Near Hadrians Wall a second century stone altar was discovered by a Frisian legionnaire dedicated to a Germanic Goddess 'Friagabis'. This can be read as Proto Germanic 'The Giving Lady' or 'The Giving Freyja'.
Ok, 4a feira dia de Arith, claro faz parte da construção do teu canal, muito bom tens mesmo seguidores simpáticos e atentos aos pormenores! Parabéns, muits parabéns!
Very interesting, I had not considered the negative impact on world-denying aspect of Christianity in context to fertility cults and women's roles and rights in Scandinavian societies.
Arith, thank you for all your work. I am really enjoying your videos. I was curious if you have done any videos explaining the Wights, Elves, Trolls etc?
Happy Arith'sday as for many of us Wednesday is the day of Arith, when we get to see the new video. Maybe the christians could have associated Freya with Mary Magdalene, who appears in the stories of Jesus but her role is clouded because of the treatment of women in that society. More recent discoveries of books left out of the bible suggest that she had a more important role than is recognised in the accepted scriptures. Your beard is now rivalling Mr T's beard but your eyebrows have a long way to go to equal his.
Happy Arith's Day to you too my friend hehe :P Yes, the female characters of the bible don't have much protagonism, aside from the Virgin Mary for being the "vessel" who carried god's son, the saviour. The rest of the women in the bible are either prostitutes or demons. I will speak a bit about Mary Magdalene on another video during June, funny you should mentioned her, I've actually recorded a video a month ago talking about her. There are great evidences already, new ones, that she was a very wealthy woman and she was in fact financing the entire Jesus' religious campaign, whether he was real or not, whoever was behind that religious burst against the romans, she was financing. She clearly had more power, but christianity as usual turned her into a prostitute.... such a lack of imagination :/
@@ArithHärger pretty sure the triple moon goddess would be virgin Mary, Mary magdalene and Mary of Bethany. I do know freyja is Mary magdalene. She's Sophia or eve.
May I suggest another possibility? Perhaps there are many similarities between Frigg and Freyja because Frigg was Freyja's mother. Consider that Frigg is also called Jord. Jord is also a name for Nerthus, often cited as perhaps the twin sister-wife of Njord and their names are related. In the hostage exchange after the Aesir-Vanir truce, only Njord and Freyr were considered hostages, yet Freyja comes, too. That seems logical, due to the closeness of Freyr and Freyja to the point of the twin sister-wife relationship. It is said that Njord also was a twin, and his twin sister was his wife. It seems logical that his twin sister would want to go with him, as well. Moving to Asgard, where the sister-wife relationship was outlawed, Freyja cannot be with Freyr and thus marries Odr (not Odhinn) or maybe was already married to him when they came. Freyr later finds Gerdr. Njord must also separate from his sister-wife, Frigg/Jord/Nerthus. Frigg is a queen in her own right, so who better to marry than Odhinn. And it serves Odhinn, as well, in that she would have the knowledge of seidr, she is a prophetess/seeress, she has the knowledge of the norns, she is a shapeshifter, and she is skilled in the arts of negotiation (as she always seems to win any debate with Odhinn ;) ), and is called to help in matters of international relations. That may also explain the close relationship between Freyja and Thor. They seem to have a very good, trusting relationship, and in this case, perhaps older half-sister/little half-brother, sharing the same mother. Which is why Loki, wanting to use Freyja's falcon cloak, gets Thor to ask for it. ;) And perhaps why Thor seems to step up to be Freyja's protector, or think that he can speak up about marrying her off in order to get his hammer back. lol There is a whisper of a hint to the relationship between Frigg and Njord in the Lokasenna. Maybe. lol Freyja is also a mother, though depicted more as the independent mother who no longer has to watch over little ones but is freer to do more in life, though she would use her powers/magick at a moment's notice to protect her children. Both Freyja and Frigg were invoked together in prayers during childbirth. And Frigg is no Virgin Mary. (Was Mary? lol) When Odhinn was away in exile, she lived with his brothers - closely. ;) Njord speaks up for Freyja when accusations from Loki cast aspersions upon her sexual activities, saying that it was not a bad thing to have relationships with others, and nobody contradicted him. It was not prostitution or "whoring," as we have been conditioned to think of today. It was just . . . whatever. lol Just another theory. ;)
Isis and Helcate seem a bit similar to me; goddesses of magic, love and moon? Is it possible that they are shared deities who stories that have travelled and been adopted by different cultures over time? Please don't be angry if this is a stupid question. I am not a student of history. Great narrator who takes you back in time.
amazing video, I agree about the correlation between Freyja and Virgin mary, both were called bad names, and given bad adjectives. Especially when Mary got pregnant without (a father), and went to the top of a mountain (spiritual mountain) and been protected by (angels). that place was called Bayt-lam, which refers to Lam = lamb of good, the aries zodiac sign, in arabic it is Hamal, means pregnancy and giving birth. so it is Bayt-lam. Bayt = home or house, so it all makes sense in a way. thank you again.
Freyja is Sophia. Also the triple goddess in Christianity would be the 3 Mary. Mother Mary, Mary magdalene and Mary of Bethany...the jesuits venerate mother Mary quite a lot....
I mean, a lot of pantheistic religions have incestuous relationships between the gods. I don't think it really implies that the societies themselves practiced incest; it's probably more something like, when we're talking about the early deities in the pantheon, they're all related, so they don't have any options.
@@mariammontaser7843 beautiful. Kind. She wouldn't let me know her name or see her face at first. It was many meditation sessions later before she revealed her face and name. I always feel safe around her. And she doesn't judge me.
I would also like to mention as a side note that a Goddess of such beauty & confidence & power could only have been seen as a threat, even by some of the othdr Gods, and what better way to attack a woman's confidence than to go straight for her reputation, to try and embarrass her concerning her own sexuality, in attempt to try and pull her down a peg or two, Loki was acting like many an insecure man has done to try and upset a woman of any level of power throughout history.
She is not gone... perhaps muted... I only know what I know ... perhaps Nyx, Hecate, and many other names. Maybe I can say the Goddess is known by many names. I certainly do not wish to diminish any faith only add. It's no myth. Blessed be.
Great video! Growing up Catholic the only positive female association I ever encountered was of the Virgin Mother/Lady of Perpetual Sorrow, not quite realistic in modern times....or any time for that matter. The only "good" female entity was always sad and sorrowful and was never give any real power or purpose other than self sacrifice and subservient service. My question is, since Christianity made any woman who was not sorrowful or subservient into a demon (like Lillith) or into a prostitute doesn't Freyja seem more on par with the Mary Magdalene? Being that Freyja is noble, sexual and the wife of a leader which alines with the dual versions of Mary Magdalene where she was born of noble blood, a prostitute, and as some believe not a prostitute but the actual wife of Jesus who himself was seen as a leader amongst his people?
In medieval times Mary Magdalene didn't have much importance yet because people all over Europe were struggling, not only religious conflicts between Protestants and Catholics, but some believed Jesus was a mortal messiah son of God, while others believed he was god himself come to earth in human form. Either way, Jesus having a female figure too close to him other than his own mother, was something inconceivable. Mary Magdalene was turned into a prostitute and so did all women with the exception of the Virgin Mary because she was the mother of Jesus and the woman God chose, so it would have been impossible to turn her into a prostitute, or it would have been highly offencive and immediately condemned. It's true Freyja was seen as a prostitute by Christians but in order to convert the pagans, she had to be closer the only important female figure in christianity. But here's where it gets tricky. The Vikings divided the same goddess in two (Freyja and Frigg) so with christianity Freyja started to lose power and her other version (Frigg) started to gain more power because that aspect of the same goddess was closer to the Figure of the Virgin, a household goddess, queen of Asgard, Wife of the king of the gods etc. Freyja's cult started to deminish and her aspect as Frigg started to become much closer to the Virgin Mary.
@@ArithHärger in skopelos greek island virgin mary church was built on ancient goddess artemis site. You can see remains clearly. The Vatican is built on ancient Anatolian earth mother goddess site cybelle
This was a very useful and informative video and I love it. But I have to ask, when did the story of her being married to a dwarf who wooed her with his beautiful crafts come into popularity? It doesn’t seem to have any basis in myth but in many modern fantasy novels and stories Freyja is married to a dwarf. To me this change sounds like someone applying a Greek myth to a Norse one to make the story more familiar, but I’ve got no idea where it comes from. It’s in video games, kids books, comics, and even an opera. Do you know where this comes from?
Ah good question! I also grew up with that story, Freyja had sex with 4 dwarves in exchange for a necklace. This is a very short story in Óláfs saga Tryggvasonar found in the Flateyjarbók, which, if I'm not mistaken, can be read in the Heimskringla but as an extended version. It's a 14th century Icelandic story, which means Catholicism was the official religion in Iceland for at least 300 years. As I've been telling in the videos, Christians created this image of Freyja being a whore to demonise her and her entire cult, to diminish her power and denigrate her image. This short, tiny, insignificant story which would almost pass unnoticed, is actually the most popular "facts" about Freyja, because Christians spread that idea as much as possible, and with the turn of the century during the 16th century, it was even worse when Protestantism took hold in Iceland. There might be a pagan past to this story of course, something related to the fertility of the soils and Freyja's contact with the landspirits, underground spirits represented by Dwarves. The Flateyjarbók is, without a doubt, a great source to study the cult of both Freyr and Freyja, there are loads of hints to their cults, but of course, masked with Christianity, so we have to be careful and try to filter as much as possible.
Thank you so much! It looks like I will have to be much more through with my research. My boyfriend has been playing the new god of war game, which features a lot of elements from the Norse myths. I’ve been watching over his shoulder and offering annoying commentary on what the game got wrong. My boyfriend and my brother keep asking where I store all of this random information. It’s stored from your videos lol. And from Dr Crawford whose a professor of Norse studies at the university of Berkeley California. You should check him out, you might think he’s interesting
Although Loki told Freya she is a whore for sleeping with all of the Gods, she did also deny this, taking this accusation as an insult. Loki was insulting not just her but other Gods at the time as well. Should we just assume tbat Loki wasn't lying? To her character, she also took offense to an order to pretend she was a wife to a God she was not married to, because she did not want others to assume she had relations with him. This concern of hers seems to go in direct contrast with the assumption thst she was simply a loose kind of woman. The Christians would have demonized Freya as a threat, encouraging the idea or rumours that Freya was to be disregarded as an immoral woman. I think Freya is a bit misunderstood.
Where I come from, even the cult of the mother Mary in May is clearly linked to Freyja: for me, Freyja is as good a representation of the fac-simile mother Mary, Freyja being at least more real than the figments of the Rome lie
Some very good and interesting historical info... But I must correct you on her name...Her name does not mean "lady"... Freyja is the germanic pronunciation of the Indo-European goddess Praa-Jaa which translates as the energy "jaa" of fertility "Praa", Frey is the germanic pronunciation of the indo european male aspect of fertility "Praa". PraaJaa (Freyja) means the feminine power of fertilty.... Very sad to see you once again simply regurgitating modern academic assumptions and superficial understandings...
Hathor , thr eye of Ra, the cow godess, one of the most ancient godesses was a gidess of beauty fertility family nurturing etc, she is the godess of many names. Including Frøya. ❤ She is the right hand of God. There arent many gods and godesses as they only change names . They will not teach us about the importance of the female aspect of creation. Its time to change that.
I'm curious too but she is the goddess of sex and fertility that means her worship would've engaged in sacred prostitution. Although that title would have been an insult to her because that's what Loki accused her when she slept with the dwarves for a necklace.
@@irateradioarchive There has never been such a thing as sacred prostitution. All evil talk about enemies in the bible and sexual fantasies of Victorian 'scholars'. It took some female researchers to bust that myth. In my view Freya was and is the Great Goddess of Northern Europe. She 'slept' with all different kinds of peoples because She once was the only one who could give kings authority over the land. Not prostitution but hieros gamos!
@@ZiaElohka I want to believe that and I would like to read about this research but hieros gamos sounds the same as the description of temple prostitution to me. I don't mean to belittle this or to appear morally superior.
@@irateradioarchive There s a huge difference. Hieros gamos was probably just symbolically. Just like the Raja of Djokjakarta symbolically marries the Goddess of the South Sea, this is a good modern example.
I don't understand, why Morality, Purity and Virginity, is always spoken of in Pagan circles as something only related to Christianity, and the idea that Prostitution was related to Paganism, when Ancient Greek, Mesopotamian, Egyptian and I am sure, Norse Religion also DEIFIED Morality, Purity and Virginity... The Christians do not get their idea about Morality and Reverence for Virginity from Abrahamic-Moses Religion, the Christian Reverence for Virginity and Morality comes from Pagan aka Native Greek Religion, which DEIFIED Hygiene, Virtue and Morality... There was no Biblical Jesus ever, he didn't exist, the Religion of the Greeks as so expressed by Apollonius was hijacked by Biblical Judaics in the 400's AD. But the idea that "Prostitution" was ok or that Morality, Virginity, and Virtue were not Gods themselves in the Greek, Roman, Mesopotamian, Egyptian and Norse worlds and other Caucasian Civilizations and Nations is quite erroneous. One of the major tools to avoid misfortune, Diseases and problems of Evey kind, was to follow the Basic rules for correct thinking and behaving and the cult to the Gods always expresses that methodology. All Pan Caucasian Deities have their counterparts in other Caucasian Deities, wether they are from the Mediterranean to Scandinavia, or from the Atlantic Sea to Eurasia.
As in other pre-christian traditions, could "men" that practiced Seidr and shamanic practices associated with the feminine have been what we would now call Trans Women?
I don't think Goddesses actually have names. Or rather, their names our beyond our ability to pronounce. The name of the Goddess is felt in the soul, not spoken by the tongue.
In northern Germany, I am happy to see many young girls still being named Freya. I myself have named one of my daughters Freyja as well. Always been drawn to her magic. Great video.
Name children closer to the old european traditions
We have shed the 1000 year-old shackles of the false Hebrew god.
@@theoryofthemobius dear ,give your life to Jésus Christ the son of God of Israël the truth God whose is gave his only Son yeshuahamashia for to save you from sin and the eternal flam.The gods and goddesses are under the orders and work with Satan to send the humans who worship the idols,devils and many gods in the eternal flames .Plse give your life to Jésus Christ before to late because the rapture is coming soon.Magic , fornication,sorcery are the ways for the Hell.Plse repent repent repent now before to late
@@stephanielaguerre1509 hu? Before Christianity came there were the old religions . Some were much more free as how religion is taught now or how women were and are seen .
Also the days where we celebrate Christmas for example today, come from those holy days back then , called yule. Also the 12 holy mystic nights around december.
So christianity took parts from old religions for their own. Because it Was easy to convince people to follow the New god 😌
@@stephanielaguerre1509 abrahamic lies, not natural to europe, not native to europe. christianity shouldve never entered our continent in the first place.
I find Freyja a most powerful, unusually proud goddess. I guess astrologically she relates to Venus, rather than to the Moon, as Venus is the proudest. She does not take second place to any male God, and she demands a true show of deference before she will appear to the querent. Thank you for your wisdom-soaked additions to the Nordic teachings. It is a great time to be alive.
That point right there you said is the key! "She does not take second place to any male God" I agreed. She is often depicted even my academics (and I get a lot of discussions with my collegues) as being second only to Odin. I think it's time to stop these social and gender boundaries. Each deity is important in its own field of expertise just like us. No one is second to anybody. No one should be treated as inferior We are all different and special in our own ways.
Thanks for your reply! Yes these particular gender roles were invented by the Christians and imposed on the nordic realms which were more respectful of the differentiated, pluriform nature of the world. A very notable difference between the Christian patriarchal god and Odin is that the latter is mortal. Odin doesn't master the universe, neither does he master Freyja - but he does master himself, which is the example he sets for us.
Maybe actually Odin strives for not mastering himself. To go beyond himself.
@@ArithHärger Your comment actually spoke to me personally. Thank you.
Why not the moon?
As Freyja is very important to me, I truly enjoyed this video (as well as others) and follow them with extreme interest as I think you capture the true essence and meaning of these deities :)
Thank you very much ^^ I'm happy to know you enjoyed this video (and others ;P)
@@ArithHärger Plse i know it is your job but i tell you if not give your life to Jésus Christ now cause he is coming soon.the deities are under the control and work for Satan and their goals drive the humans races to the hell.Plse repent now or accept Jésus-Christ as your Lord and Savior
@@stephanielaguerre1509 go away brainwashed lemming. People like you are a pox on humanity. 👎
@@stephanielaguerre1509 don't try and convert others. If that is your belief fine but you only need to worry about your own soul not others. What others choose to follow is there own business. There are thousands of religions and 45.000 different protestant christian religion
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Nice introduction
Hey! THank you :D hehe
The issue I take with calling these women prostitutes is that in the modern age our view of sex has changed so drastically and the role of a prostitute has changed with it. It's not enough to say "our ancestors didn't believe prostitution was bad" but rather that many (if not all) prostitutes took on a role similar to that of a priestess and used sex as their method of channeling the divinity of Freyja. Hardly some woman on a street corner offering to suck you off for a fiver.
As sex started to be viewed as sinful and profane, so did prostitutes. It became a purely carnal profession.
id argue that its not necessarily the role of prostitutes that changed, but how prostitutes are treated and how their public image has warped into the "woman on a street corner offering to suck you off for a fiver" instead of a woman with a profession that many people relied on for sexual and romantic aid and guidance
Wher are you getting sucked off for a fiver? Asking for a friend.
You make me so very proud to be a heathen.
Always be proud of yourself, no matter what spirituality you choose ^^
Arith Härger I would LOVE a video about Lokasenna. It's one of my favorites.
What are your feelings of using the term “heathen”? It grates on my heart due to its origin from Christians.
@@ArithHärger Yeah I'm an ironic combination of Bishop Heahmund and Athelstan in that regard, Arith.
@@ergoproxy7444 I know this is an old comment, and this isn't directly related, but I kind of relate it to how Levayan Satanists took the word Satan; originally, it was almost a slur, aimed toward people the Ancient Christians and Hebrews deemed evil, or corrupt, didn't matter what that person actually believed, simply meaning "enemy". There came a point where people decided, "If this is what you want to call people who do not submit to you, then we shall take that title gladly."
It is a very personal choice, but that is how I've grown to understand the concept of reclaiming such labels.
I am slowly catching up with your older videos. I very much enjoyed this one and learned a lot. Thank you, Arith.
compliments from Poland
I can not wait for the next movie
A big hug to Poland! :D
Hello my friend, you already know what I think with regards to your work (book..hint) so I shall try and keep it short. Just know that I believe you are emerging like a butterfly from its cocoon with these vids and I'm very grateful for them.
Thank you! I do feel like a beautiful butterfly when making these videos :p just kiding, but seriously, I really appreciate your support and feedback, it's always great to receive praise for the things we do. Thank you for the motivation. I do hope to improve my videos especially for those like you who have been here since the beginning. I would rather keep the faithful ones rather than a new audience.
Thanks more videos about Freyia
Fascinating content! Thank you!
You are a blessing of knowledge, thank you so much for sharing it.
Thankyou, I like your explanation as to why Frigg and Freya where slipt. Makes perfect sense
Thank you for this video about my beloved Goddess! Love it
Good clarification on Hel's role in the afterlife.
Thank you! 🙏 Very good work! Have watched it with a big interested! 🌷
Thank you for this lovely video. You have great explanations and also great visuals. :D
Thank you so much :D
thank you for this!!!
Love your work!
Thank you ^^
Intresting
As crazy as it sounds, I am a Man of Color of Character, "black", living in America and recently found out through DNA my family name is "HOSSANDORFF". Long story short, my DNA explains the fascination I've had for Norse Mythology and the Vikings. I've always known "christianity" to be full of horse manure, just didn't know why. I'm going to be learning a lot from you.
I personally feel gods care more about your heart then your genetics but im glad you heard the calling and i hope you have a fantastic journey.
Well met, Donald. Arith is an excellent source of information. This is a path with many books, and lots of homework. I traced my family back to the Isle of Jersey in 1340. Just after the end of the Viking raids, and with plenty of traders and migrants left from those times. The original name of the island was Gyr' Island anglophized to Jersey. Gyr being a Norse name probably pronounced "Gear". I love the Old Gods, and this rich tradition. I, like every other God, elf, and human, am crazy about Freya, and I think me and Odin would be great friends and traveling companions. Never a dull moment with these guys.
That’s a weird way of putting…
It doesn’t matter. Animism has been how all ethnicities that ever existed related to the World for thousands of years.
There are many African cultures that are extremely in touch with the spirits and the gods, you don’t need to use this “ancestry” to justify anything.
@@thepeopleslibrary8673 Well stated. This is something I have a lot to about. In time, I'll get there. Trial and error, live and learn is all I can do.
Genetics don’t matter, only the Spirit
This is awesome. Thank you, this is much more “real” than many have been conditioned to believe. The poetic aspects can be interpreted to reflect reality, and for those who truly see and truly perceive.
Also interesting that it’s known practice (example in Egypt with Lotus flowers) among seers and certain levels of spiritual mastery to involve sex for similar reasons. Hence the new age of such loose ends or sleeping around, people will do well to learn what happens when they share their bodies with others, much deeper than quantum entanglements 🙏🏼
Thank you. Freyja is an important Goddess for me.
Oh Freyja, my heavenly mother, how many love poems I have created in honour of you.
Interessting. I have experience in Astrologie and more and more I see the similarity of the Olymp and Asgard. Venus is also known as Astarte, Diane the Hunting and Animal protecting one. Or as Aphrodite and Artemisia and she is the dothir of a Titan like Freya is a Vana and in relatioship to Gaja.
If the cart is a rocking don't come a knocking.
I have a statue of her. I love Goddess Feryja. I hear her talk to me at times.
I am from Austria and feel connected deeply to this Goddess, I also adopted her name
i love ya baby. jump up on the cart. freya was a tart. harharhar. as my mother would say frigg it. good yarns arith. thank yew. take care
Wow my friend, in this video with your hair like it is, you look very much like my father when he was young.
Thank you arithmetic I love the history myths and Freyja love the explanations and acknowledge your views on how things adapted to many thanks Stewart pollard Cronus England
This info helps a lot! Thank you!
Muito bom o feedback dos teus fiéis seguidores, deves sentir orgulho do teu trabalho e das tuas capacidades de inovar em cada novo vídeo! Para além de que o tema é bastante comum entre os humanos, algo com que nos identificamos e reconhecemos no nosso quotidiano! Obrigada adorei!
Agradeço hehe, como sempre ;P
Brilliant as always. Thank you 🙏🏽🐉🙏🏽
So COOL
Thank you! :D
i really enjoy your lectures sir, very informative. SALUTE
Frigga is the mother of Freyja with Njordr, many good studies on the folklore of the old norse and ancient germans. William P Reaves has done some interresting work on it just as Rydberg! Odr seems to have relations with Svipdagr, Skirnir, Hermodr, Ottar it is very interresting to dive deep in to the ways of our ancestors! I should say to you dive deeper
Dear Arith, did you ever heard of the germanic goddes Holle/Holda/Percht? She leads together with Wotan/Odin the wild hunt. She look after the souls of unborn children. She is a goddes of fertility, birth, death, like a combination of Freya, Frigg and Hel. Even her name sounds similar to Hel, but she is also very closely connect to birth and fertility. So she might be "the Lady"/Freia ( in Germany Freia is the name for Frigg, Freya is not really lokated in Germany). So this fits perfectly with your theorie. Maybe you would like to check. It is very interesting in this context.
I have also seen Freyja conflated with Frau Holle. Would you ever consider doing a video on Holle?
Yes, I thought the same!
Thank you,really appreciate it.
I really enjoy your videos I am a proud heathen and appreciate your knowledge thank you brother.
Parabéns belíssima introdução, muito mágica ilustra bem o tema que apresentas, parabéns!
Ganda nice! :P
Thank you brother, blessings from Arizona
Could this be similar to Parvati, Durga and Kali? Same Goddess but different aspects? I find it very irritating that Christianity took so much from so many.
Yes! Freyja and Parvati both derive from the Indo-European goddess Pria: piereligion.org/pria.html
I believe the same thing andnmyself have laxmi and kali as my istha devata
Yes absolutely the Divine Mother in different aspects Jai Mata Di🌺🙏
They stole the original cultures of the Americas, in the worst genocide this world has ever known.
She is many in one. Hathor, Isis or Nepthys, Mary Magdalene, inanna, Ishtar, Esther, batsheba, Shakti, Medusa, lady Nada, Sophia, the Phoenix, the little Mermaid, aka Melusine, Cleopatra, wonder Woman, etc etc....
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Great video. I think Freya is more like Mary Magdaline. Not the catholic church's hoar version but the equal with Jesus, a priestess skilled in sacred sexuality. This makes more sense than the virgin mary archtype. There is also Marta/Martha who's name means Lady. She was also known when they left the middle east after jesus's "death", Marta tamed the dragon tarasque in what is now southern france, occitanie. There are some interesting connections, it seems. 🙏Again.
Please, Frigg and Idunn 😍😍😍
Im very connected to Freya. Except for one thing, the sacrifice of animals. She is back, she will be revealed as the real Mother Godess she is. 🎉
I am pagan/wiccan and hope to start working with Freyja soon! I need to be mentally ready for this. 💖💖💖💖
i like Freya.
okay
@@freyaLNH since you bear the name of the Goddess can you ask her to send me someone to love?
@@electrondady1475 sure Ill do my best! and please know that I have faith in you and youre gonna find what youre looking for. have faith and itll be alright, your significant other will be there for you! but please know that you can let other people be a part of your journey, but dont let them be your destination:) wishing u the best
@@freyaLNH thanks so much
I'd love to know where the connection is between freya and cards. You mentioned something about fertility and cards. I don't remember snorri mentioning that. Sounds interesting.
I think he said carts, not cards
'Freyja was a giving Goddess (...)'
Near Hadrians Wall a second century stone altar was discovered by a Frisian legionnaire dedicated to a Germanic Goddess 'Friagabis'. This can be read as Proto Germanic 'The Giving Lady' or 'The Giving Freyja'.
Ok, 4a feira dia de Arith, claro faz parte da construção do teu canal, muito bom tens mesmo seguidores simpáticos e atentos aos pormenores! Parabéns, muits parabéns!
Está a ser engraçado isto
Very interesting thank you. Have you done or could you do a video about Freyja's brother?
Very interesting, I had not considered the negative impact on world-denying aspect of Christianity in context to fertility cults and women's roles and rights in Scandinavian societies.
The world-denying views of Christianity was precisely what reshaped our entire thinking
It doesn't surprise me- my monastery years were full of that worldview - but I had never considered it in this context. Eye-opening.
Arith, thank you for all your work. I am really enjoying your videos. I was curious if you have done any videos explaining the Wights, Elves, Trolls etc?
Happy Arith'sday as for many of us Wednesday is the day of Arith, when we get to see the new video.
Maybe the christians could have associated Freya with Mary Magdalene, who appears in the stories of Jesus but her role is clouded because of the treatment of women in that society. More recent discoveries of books left out of the bible suggest that she had a more important role than is recognised in the accepted scriptures.
Your beard is now rivalling Mr T's beard but your eyebrows have a long way to go to equal his.
Happy Arith's Day to you too my friend hehe :P Yes, the female characters of the bible don't have much protagonism, aside from the Virgin Mary for being the "vessel" who carried god's son, the saviour. The rest of the women in the bible are either prostitutes or demons. I will speak a bit about Mary Magdalene on another video during June, funny you should mentioned her, I've actually recorded a video a month ago talking about her. There are great evidences already, new ones, that she was a very wealthy woman and she was in fact financing the entire Jesus' religious campaign, whether he was real or not, whoever was behind that religious burst against the romans, she was financing. She clearly had more power, but christianity as usual turned her into a prostitute.... such a lack of imagination :/
Well I suppose better a prostitute than a demon.
well, not sure lol, maybe being a demon has some cool perks
@@ArithHärger pretty sure the triple moon goddess would be virgin Mary, Mary magdalene and Mary of Bethany. I do know freyja is Mary magdalene. She's Sophia or eve.
Where may we find the artist who did the opening invocation? Is that the one in the description? Thank you. Wassail!
Yup it's me hehehe. Thank you and to you as well!
May I suggest another possibility? Perhaps there are many similarities between Frigg and Freyja because Frigg was Freyja's mother. Consider that Frigg is also called Jord. Jord is also a name for Nerthus, often cited as perhaps the twin sister-wife of Njord and their names are related. In the hostage exchange after the Aesir-Vanir truce, only Njord and Freyr were considered hostages, yet Freyja comes, too. That seems logical, due to the closeness of Freyr and Freyja to the point of the twin sister-wife relationship. It is said that Njord also was a twin, and his twin sister was his wife. It seems logical that his twin sister would want to go with him, as well. Moving to Asgard, where the sister-wife relationship was outlawed, Freyja cannot be with Freyr and thus marries Odr (not Odhinn) or maybe was already married to him when they came. Freyr later finds Gerdr. Njord must also separate from his sister-wife, Frigg/Jord/Nerthus. Frigg is a queen in her own right, so who better to marry than Odhinn. And it serves Odhinn, as well, in that she would have the knowledge of seidr, she is a prophetess/seeress, she has the knowledge of the norns, she is a shapeshifter, and she is skilled in the arts of negotiation (as she always seems to win any debate with Odhinn ;) ), and is called to help in matters of international relations. That may also explain the close relationship between Freyja and Thor. They seem to have a very good, trusting relationship, and in this case, perhaps older half-sister/little half-brother, sharing the same mother. Which is why Loki, wanting to use Freyja's falcon cloak, gets Thor to ask for it. ;) And perhaps why Thor seems to step up to be Freyja's protector, or think that he can speak up about marrying her off in order to get his hammer back. lol There is a whisper of a hint to the relationship between Frigg and Njord in the Lokasenna. Maybe. lol Freyja is also a mother, though depicted more as the independent mother who no longer has to watch over little ones but is freer to do more in life, though she would use her powers/magick at a moment's notice to protect her children. Both Freyja and Frigg were invoked together in prayers during childbirth. And Frigg is no Virgin Mary. (Was Mary? lol) When Odhinn was away in exile, she lived with his brothers - closely. ;) Njord speaks up for Freyja when accusations from Loki cast aspersions upon her sexual activities, saying that it was not a bad thing to have relationships with others, and nobody contradicted him. It was not prostitution or "whoring," as we have been conditioned to think of today. It was just . . . whatever. lol
Just another theory. ;)
Maybe you would like to check out about the germanic goddes Holle/Holda/Percht? In this context Ariths theory makes much more sense.
Pretty sure odin and njord are the same
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Isis and Helcate seem a bit similar to me; goddesses of magic, love and moon? Is it possible that they are shared deities who stories that have travelled and been adopted by different cultures over time? Please don't be angry if this is a stupid question. I am not a student of history. Great narrator who takes you back in time.
How can I translate this video in Dutch, i don't understand not complete what it is say
amazing video, I agree about the correlation between Freyja and Virgin mary, both were called bad names, and given bad adjectives. Especially when Mary got pregnant without (a father), and went to the top of a mountain (spiritual mountain) and been protected by (angels). that place was called Bayt-lam, which refers to Lam = lamb of good, the aries zodiac sign, in arabic it is Hamal, means pregnancy and giving birth. so it is Bayt-lam. Bayt = home or house, so it all makes sense in a way. thank you again.
Freyja is Sophia. Also the triple goddess in Christianity would be the 3 Mary. Mother Mary, Mary magdalene and Mary of Bethany...the jesuits venerate mother Mary quite a lot....
I mean, a lot of pantheistic religions have incestuous relationships between the gods. I don't think it really implies that the societies themselves practiced incest; it's probably more something like, when we're talking about the early deities in the pantheon, they're all related, so they don't have any options.
Youre awesome dude!
The goddes of magic sexuality, i like her Freyja you can have the god you want, she is magical and knows it.
She came to me during meditate before I even knew much about her.
Wow :o , how was she like?
@@mariammontaser7843 beautiful. Kind. She wouldn't let me know her name or see her face at first. It was many meditation sessions later before she revealed her face and name. I always feel safe around her. And she doesn't judge me.
@@cheritatum502 that must've been a wonderful experience💙
there are gnostic storis that Maria and Maria Magdalena were Holly prositutes.
Who was the woman who did the voiceover?
Myself actually lol, I tried to make a feminine voice as much as possible and then digitally modified it a bit ^^
Arith Härger well done
Bem conseguido, ficou perfeito!
When I had a episode, I summon Athena and Freya, I forgot to summon Hella which I had worship
I would also like to mention as a side note that a Goddess of such beauty & confidence & power could only have been seen as a threat, even by some of the othdr Gods, and what better way to attack a woman's confidence than to go straight for her reputation, to try and embarrass her concerning her own sexuality, in attempt to try and pull her down a peg or two, Loki was acting like many an insecure man has done to try and upset a woman of any level of power throughout history.
She is not gone... perhaps muted... I only know what I know ... perhaps Nyx, Hecate, and many other names. Maybe I can say the Goddess is known by many names. I certainly do not wish to diminish any faith only add. It's no myth. Blessed be.
In the Netherlads not either but because of things got more prude, a whle differents of the 60/70 /80.
Great video! Growing up Catholic the only positive female association I ever encountered was of the Virgin Mother/Lady of Perpetual Sorrow, not quite realistic in modern times....or any time for that matter. The only "good" female entity was always sad and sorrowful and was never give any real power or purpose other than self sacrifice and subservient service. My question is, since Christianity made any woman who was not sorrowful or subservient into a demon (like Lillith) or into a prostitute doesn't Freyja seem more on par with the Mary Magdalene? Being that Freyja is noble, sexual and the wife of a leader which alines with the dual versions of Mary Magdalene where she was born of noble blood, a prostitute, and as some believe not a prostitute but the actual wife of Jesus who himself was seen as a leader amongst his people?
In medieval times Mary Magdalene didn't have much importance yet because people all over Europe were struggling, not only religious conflicts between Protestants and Catholics, but some believed Jesus was a mortal messiah son of God, while others believed he was god himself come to earth in human form. Either way, Jesus having a female figure too close to him other than his own mother, was something inconceivable. Mary Magdalene was turned into a prostitute and so did all women with the exception of the Virgin Mary because she was the mother of Jesus and the woman God chose, so it would have been impossible to turn her into a prostitute, or it would have been highly offencive and immediately condemned. It's true Freyja was seen as a prostitute by Christians but in order to convert the pagans, she had to be closer the only important female figure in christianity. But here's where it gets tricky. The Vikings divided the same goddess in two (Freyja and Frigg) so with christianity Freyja started to lose power and her other version (Frigg) started to gain more power because that aspect of the same goddess was closer to the Figure of the Virgin, a household goddess, queen of Asgard, Wife of the king of the gods etc. Freyja's cult started to deminish and her aspect as Frigg started to become much closer to the Virgin Mary.
@@ArithHärger in skopelos greek island virgin mary church was built on ancient goddess artemis site. You can see remains clearly. The Vatican is built on ancient Anatolian earth mother goddess site cybelle
Freya is Mary Magdalene and Lilith.
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It'd be excellent if you shared your sources...
In the recent videos I've started to put the bibliography.
This was a very useful and informative video and I love it. But I have to ask, when did the story of her being married to a dwarf who wooed her with his beautiful crafts come into popularity? It doesn’t seem to have any basis in myth but in many modern fantasy novels and stories Freyja is married to a dwarf. To me this change sounds like someone applying a Greek myth to a Norse one to make the story more familiar, but I’ve got no idea where it comes from. It’s in video games, kids books, comics, and even an opera. Do you know where this comes from?
Ah good question! I also grew up with that story, Freyja had sex with 4 dwarves in exchange for a necklace. This is a very short story in Óláfs saga Tryggvasonar found in the Flateyjarbók, which, if I'm not mistaken, can be read in the Heimskringla but as an extended version. It's a 14th century Icelandic story, which means Catholicism was the official religion in Iceland for at least 300 years. As I've been telling in the videos, Christians created this image of Freyja being a whore to demonise her and her entire cult, to diminish her power and denigrate her image. This short, tiny, insignificant story which would almost pass unnoticed, is actually the most popular "facts" about Freyja, because Christians spread that idea as much as possible, and with the turn of the century during the 16th century, it was even worse when Protestantism took hold in Iceland. There might be a pagan past to this story of course, something related to the fertility of the soils and Freyja's contact with the landspirits, underground spirits represented by Dwarves. The Flateyjarbók is, without a doubt, a great source to study the cult of both Freyr and Freyja, there are loads of hints to their cults, but of course, masked with Christianity, so we have to be careful and try to filter as much as possible.
Thank you so much! It looks like I will have to be much more through with my research.
My boyfriend has been playing the new god of war game, which features a lot of elements from the Norse myths. I’ve been watching over his shoulder and offering annoying commentary on what the game got wrong. My boyfriend and my brother keep asking where I store all of this random information. It’s stored from your videos lol. And from Dr Crawford whose a professor of Norse studies at the university of Berkeley California. You should check him out, you might think he’s interesting
Sweet lady love, love me down
Freyja is just like Lela a western Slavic goddess
if freyja is also frigg, freyja is an Vanir, is Frigg an Aesir ?
Frigg is Aesir, Freyja is Vanir and then became an Aesir alongside her brother.
I know the Christians really tried to kill thr concept of the Goddess. I'm really glad Freya survived. She's truly awesome.
Freyja favors the divine ruler
Although Loki told Freya she is a whore for sleeping with all of the Gods, she did also deny this, taking this accusation as an insult. Loki was insulting not just her but other Gods at the time as well. Should we just assume tbat Loki wasn't lying? To her character, she also took offense to an order to pretend she was a wife to a God she was not married to, because she did not want others to assume she had relations with him. This concern of hers seems to go in direct contrast with the assumption thst she was simply a loose kind of woman. The Christians would have demonized Freya as a threat, encouraging the idea or rumours that Freya was to be disregarded as an immoral woman. I think Freya is a bit misunderstood.
How does she work with lesbians
Maybe the same way she does with others? Idk 🤷🏼♀️
Why should she work with lesbians? A godess of fertility?
the link with tantra?
Congratulations on getting a green screen.
thanks ;p easy to make one but the problem is I don't have much space to actually use it properly and mistakes are made ;p
Endlich einer keiner all der Ami Plastik "Norse paganism" Irren.
Danke Arith
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mary magdeline?
Where I come from, even the cult of the mother Mary in May is clearly linked to Freyja: for me, Freyja is as good a representation of the fac-simile mother Mary, Freyja being at least more real than the figments of the Rome lie
Some very good and interesting historical info... But I must correct you on her name...Her name does not mean "lady"... Freyja is the germanic pronunciation of the Indo-European goddess Praa-Jaa which translates as the energy "jaa" of fertility "Praa", Frey is the germanic pronunciation of the indo european male aspect of fertility "Praa". PraaJaa (Freyja) means the feminine power of fertilty.... Very sad to see you once again simply regurgitating modern academic assumptions and superficial understandings...
Pra ja in slavic means pra l,or pra me
Lady would imply nobility❤
12 thumbs down they will not enter Valhalla!!!
Hathor , thr eye of Ra, the cow godess, one of the most ancient godesses was a gidess of beauty fertility family nurturing etc, she is the godess of many names. Including Frøya. ❤ She is the right hand of God. There arent many gods and godesses as they only change names . They will not teach us about the importance of the female aspect of creation. Its time to change that.
Topless woman turns around HAS A BEARD!
Maybe she was a troll woman????
Gotta be a dwarf woman.
Caint I get a frontal view on this.
I would like to know the sources for your claim that Freya was a Goddess for prostitutes!
I'm curious too but she is the goddess of sex and fertility that means her worship would've engaged in sacred prostitution. Although that title would have been an insult to her because that's what Loki accused her when she slept with the dwarves for a necklace.
@@irateradioarchive There has never been such a thing as sacred prostitution. All evil talk about enemies in the bible and sexual fantasies of Victorian 'scholars'. It took some female researchers to bust that myth.
In my view Freya was and is the Great Goddess of Northern Europe. She 'slept' with all different kinds of peoples because She once was the only one who could give kings authority over the land. Not prostitution but hieros gamos!
@@ZiaElohka I want to believe that and I would like to read about this research but hieros gamos sounds the same as the description of temple prostitution to me. I don't mean to belittle this or to appear morally superior.
@@irateradioarchive There s a huge difference. Hieros gamos was probably just symbolically.
Just like the Raja of Djokjakarta symbolically marries the Goddess of the South Sea, this is a good modern example.
Jullia Assante is one of the female scholars who busted the myth of temple prostitution in ancient Mesopotamia.
I don't understand, why Morality, Purity and Virginity, is always spoken of in Pagan circles as something only related to Christianity, and the idea that Prostitution was related to Paganism, when Ancient Greek, Mesopotamian, Egyptian and I am sure, Norse Religion also DEIFIED Morality, Purity and Virginity... The Christians do not get their idea about Morality and Reverence for Virginity from Abrahamic-Moses Religion, the Christian Reverence for Virginity and Morality comes from Pagan aka Native Greek Religion, which DEIFIED Hygiene, Virtue and Morality... There was no Biblical Jesus ever, he didn't exist, the Religion of the Greeks as so expressed by Apollonius was hijacked by Biblical Judaics in the 400's AD.
But the idea that "Prostitution" was ok or that Morality, Virginity, and Virtue were not Gods themselves in the Greek, Roman, Mesopotamian, Egyptian and Norse worlds and other Caucasian Civilizations and Nations is quite erroneous.
One of the major tools to avoid misfortune, Diseases and problems of Evey kind, was to follow the Basic rules for correct thinking and behaving and the cult to the Gods always expresses that methodology.
All Pan Caucasian Deities have their counterparts in other Caucasian Deities, wether they are from the Mediterranean to Scandinavia, or from the Atlantic Sea to Eurasia.
Then........why were all the bushes rustling????
As in other pre-christian traditions, could "men" that practiced Seidr and shamanic practices associated with the feminine have been what we would now call Trans Women?
No.
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I don't think Goddesses actually have names. Or rather, their names our beyond our ability to pronounce. The name of the Goddess is felt in the soul, not spoken by the tongue.