Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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God name "AESIR" | Icelandic / Nordic | The major race of sky gods in Norse religion. The twelve Aesir gods are headed by OTHIN, the All-Father and probably are, in part, derived from a Germanic pantheon established in prehistory. The Aesir follow a common pattern whereby cultures establish a senior pantheon of great gods which usually number seven or twelve.... |
God name "Aesir" | Germanic | Pantheon of the gods norse / germanic |
Deities name "Alcis" | Germanic / possibly Icelandic / Nordic | Unknown status. The Alcis are twin deities (brothers) known only as sons of the sky gods. From Germanic times we have a La Tene urn with pictures of paired men on horseback and linked by a wooden beam. Tacitus describes the worship of twin gods by the Naharvali tribe, their priests dressed in effeminate costume (see also the Phrygian deity ATTIS). They may have been worshiped in Forest sanctuaries along the northern coast of Europe.... |
Goddess name "Beda" | Germanic | Goddess who, along with the Alaisiagae sisters and Fimmilena and Mars Thingsus was popular among the Tubantes. |
Goddess name "Disir" | Germanic | Collective name for guardian goddesses norse / germanic |
Goddess name "Disir" | Nordic / Icelandic / / Germanic | Collective name for guardian goddesses. They were the subject of a sacrificial ritual in autumn and have strong fertility connotations as vegetation and fertility deities. They are identified in the Sigr drifumal (Poetic Edda) and include the Valkyries and Norns of Germanic mythology.... |
God name "Donar" | Germanic | God of the sky and thunder. germanic |
God name "Donar" | Germanic | storm god. The god of thunder whose symbol is either a hammer or an ax. The day name Donnerstag in modern German equates with Thursday, a corruption of Thor's day.See also THOR.... |
Goddess name "Erda" | Germanic | Very old and wise goddess of the earth germanic |
God name "Forseti" | Norse / Germanic | A god of justice for men & gods |
Goddess name "Freya" | Germanic | A goddess of fertility, love, beauty, sex & youth |
Goddess name "Frjorgyn" | Germanic | Goddess with no known cult, the name suggests she is a mountain / Forest goddess and possibly revered as a goddess of fertility norse / germanic |
Goddess name "Fulla" | Germanic | Minor goddess. Identified in the second Merseburg Charm as an attendant of the goddess FRIGG and possibly her sister.... |
Goddess name "Fulla/ Folla" | Germanic | A goddess of healing |
Goddess name "Garmangabis" | South Germanic | Tutelary goddess. Invoked by the Suebi tribe to bring prosperity. She may be linked with the north German goddess GEFJON.... |
Goddess name "Gefjon" | Germanic / Nordic / Icelandic | Goddess of Agriculture. One of the AESIR deities and an attendant of the goddess FRIGG according to tradition mentioned by Snorri in the Edda. She bore four giant sons whom she turned into oxen and used them to plough a tract of land which was then towed out to sea to become Zeeland (Sjaeland). She is also said to have founded a royal Danish dynasty. Also Gefiun.... |
God name "God/ Deus/ Gott" | Christian / Anglo-Saxon / Germanic / Roman | Claimed to be the creator god around 325 C.E., still in vouge by the Christian sect |
Goddess name "Hel" | Germanic / Nordic / Icelandic | Chthonic underworld goddess. The daughter of LOKI and the giantess Angrboda, and the sibling of both the Midgard worm who will cause the sea to flood the world with the lashings of his tail, and of Fenrir, the phantom wolf who will swallow the Sun, at Ragnarok. She is queen of the otherworld, also known as Hell, and she takes command of all who die, except for heroes slain in battle, who ascend to Valhalla. In some mythologies she is depicted as half black and half white. She was adopted into British mythology.... |