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List of Gods : "Saxons" - 6 records

Name ▲▼	Origin ▲▼	Description ▲▼
Goddess name "AEGIR (water)"	Icelandic / Nordic	God of the ocean. A lesser known AESIR god of Asgard concerned with the moods of the sea and their implications for mariners. The river Eider was known to the Vikings as Aegir's Door. Aegir is also depicted in some poetry as the ale brewer, perhaps an allusion to the caldrons of mead which were thought to come from under the sea (see also the Celtic deities DAGDA and GOBNIU). There are references in literature to Saxons sacrificing captives, probably to Aegir, before setting sail for home. Linked in uncertain manner to the goddess RAN he was believed to have sired nine children, the waves of the sea, who were possibly giantesses....
God name "Baeldaeg aka Baldag"	Saxons	Teutonic god of the day, of light-the name used among the Saxons and Westphalians.
Goddess name "Easter aka Eastre"	Saxons	A putative goddess of the Anglo-Saxons
God name "In"	Anglo - Saxon	Ancestral god. According to a runic poem he is the father of the Saxons and appeared from across the sea and then disappeared, never to return. He may also be clåśśed as one of the Nordic AESIR gods....
"Irminsul"	Saxons	The pillar that was said to connect heaven and earth, represented by oak or wooden pillars venerated by the Saxons.
God name "Woden"	Germanic	The Old English name as used by the Anglo-Saxons for the Germanic god Woden, known more commonly as the Norse god Odin.

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