| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
"Christmas Decorations" | Christian | The great feast of Saturn was held in December, when the people decorated the temples with such green things as they could find. The Christian custom is the same but transferred Jesus. The holly or holy-tree is called Christ's-thorn in Germany and Scandinavia, from its use in church decorations and its putting forth its berries about Christmas time. The early Christians gave an emblematic turn to the custom, referring to the "righteous branch," and justifying the custom from Isaiah lx. 13- "The glory of Lebanon shall come unto thee; the fir-tree, the pine-tree, and the box together, to beautify the place of my sanctuary." |
| Supreme god name "Jumala" | Finnland | The supreme god of the ancient Finns and Lapps. The word is sometimes used by the Scandinavian poets for the Almighty. |
| God name "Descended into hell" | Greek | Means the place of the dead. (Anglo-Saxon, helan, to cover or conceal, like the Greek "Hades," the abode of the dead, from the verb a-cido, not to see. In both cases it means "the unseen world"; or "the world concealed from sight." The god of this nether world was called "Hades" by the Greeks, and "Hel" or "Hela" by the Scandinavians. In some counties of England to cover in with a roof is "to hell the building," and thatchers or tilers are termed "helliers." |
| God name "Aesun" | Ireland | Irish early god whose name means "to be." Most likely part of a lost creation myth. Aesun was also known by the Persians and Umbria and Scandinavia. Ireland |
"Hrim Thursar" | Norse | A new race begat by the only man and woman to survive the Great Flood. All Norse traced their descent to the Hrim Thursar, or "Hoar Frost." Scandinavian |
| King name "Promise of Odin" | Norse | The most binding of all promises to a Scandinavian. In making this promise the person påśśed his hand through a måśśive silver ring kept for the purpose; or through a sacrificial stone, like that called the "Circle of Stennis." Norse |
"Paradise of Fools" | Roman | The Hindus, Mahometans, Scandinavians, and Roman Catholics have devised a place between Paradise and "Purgatory" to get rid of a theological difficulty. If there is no sin without intention, then infants and idiots cannot commit sin, and if they die cannot be consigned to the purgatory of evil-doers; but, not being believers or good-doers, they cannot be placed with the saints. The Roman Catholics place them in the Paradise of infants and the Paradise of Fools. |
| Goddess name "Eir" | Scandinavia | A goddess of mercy & teaching |
| God name "Fimbultyr" | Scandinavia | The mighty god, great helper (Odin) |
"Fimbul-winter" | Scandinavia | The great and awful Winter three years' long preceding the end of the world. |
| God name "Flandal Ironhands" | Scandinavia | Gnomish god of mining and iresmiths. |
"Freya" | Scandinavia | Scandinavia held at Yuletide the festival called Jul, in honour of Freya, wife of Odin. |
| Goddess name "Gefion" | Scandinavia | A vegetation and fertility goddess. Scandinavia |
| Goddess name "Gerd" | Scandinavia | earth goddess who married Freyr. She was a giantess, and considered very beautiful. Scandinavia |
| Spirit name "Goblin or Hobgoblin" | Scandinavia | A phantom spirit. |
| Goddess name "Hel" | Scandinavia | Goddess of death and the underworld. The Christian concept of "Hell" came from this goddess, however, her realm of the dead for those who were wicked was cold and dark, not fiery. Scandinavia |
| God name "Hoenir" | Scandinavia | An Aesir god and the brother of Odin and Ludor. Together they slew Ymir, the great giant of the beginning. They created the earth from his flesh, the sea and fresh water from his blood, the mountains from his bones; then mankind from two trees, man from the ash and woman from the elm. Hoenir gave them their senses and understanding, intelligence and motion. The two lesser brothers are sometimes considered aspects of Odin, eventually disappearing, Hoenir as hostage to the Vanir at the end of the war with the Aesir. Scandinavia |
| God name "Hoenu" | Scandinavia | God of silence. He, along with his brother Lodur, created Ask and Embla, the first humans. Scandinavia |
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