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.

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.

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.

You make me so very proud to be a heathen.

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 :)

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.

Oh boy, here comes another great vid! Nice introduction

compliments from Poland I can not wait for the next movie

Thank you for this video about my beloved Goddess! Love it

You are a blessing of knowledge, thank you so much for sharing it.

I am slowly catching up with your older videos. I very much enjoyed this one and learned a lot. Thank you, Arith.

Oh Freyja, my heavenly mother, how many love poems I have created in honour of you.

I am from Austria and feel connected deeply to this Goddess, I also adopted her name

Brilliant as always. Thank you 🙏🏽🐉🙏🏽

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.

Thankyou, I like your explanation as to why Frigg and Freya where slipt. Makes perfect sense

Thank you for this lovely video. You have great explanations and also great visuals. :D

Thank you! 🙏 Very good work! Have watched it with a big interested! 🌷

Good clarification on Hel's role in the afterlife.

Love your work!

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!

I really enjoy your videos I am a proud heathen and appreciate your knowledge thank you brother.

If the cart is a rocking don't come a knocking.

Thank you brother, blessings from Arizona

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.

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

Fascinating content! Thank you!

This info helps a lot! Thank you!

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.

i really enjoy your lectures sir, very informative. SALUTE

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.

Parabéns belíssima introdução, muito mágica ilustra bem o tema que apresentas, parabéns!

I love this channel subbed

So COOL

Thank you,really appreciate it.

thank you for this!!!

Thanks more videos about Freyia

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.

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?

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

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

I am pagan/wiccan and hope to start working with Freyja soon! I need to be mentally ready for this. 💖💖💖💖

I have a statue of her. I love Goddess Feryja. I hear her talk to me at times.

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!

Youre awesome dude!

I have also seen Freyja conflated with Frau Holle. Would you ever consider doing a video on Holle?

Very interesting thank you. Have you done or could you do a video about Freyja's brother?

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.

Intresting

Wow my friend, in this video with your hair like it is, you look very much like my father when he was young.

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. ;)

'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'.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Where may we find the artist who did the opening invocation? Is that the one in the description? Thank you. Wassail!

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.

When I had a episode, I summon Athena and Freya, I forgot to summon Hella which I had worship

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.

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.

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?

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How can I translate this video in Dutch, i don't understand not complete what it is say

Nobility, yes, but not only nobles loved and worshiped Freyja. There were women in Scandinavia who's children grew up and who's husband's were already dead (or may be they could divorce). Anyway they usually were not very young. They were free from families already and they practiced seidre. They could be not so noble as you say I think... And they got good money owing to their special work and were rather popular. They were not priestesses but people respected them. And those who could invite them did it from time to time. Of course there were high priestesses as well in such societies that had very high position. All these ladies - noble and not so noble - worshiped Freyja. And quite another theme... what do you think about such a thing ... Why one of the roots of Yggdrasil goes to Asgard if it must be in Niffleheim? :) Yggdrasil is much more interesting and complicated thing than we see it. As well as Freyja like one of the faces of Black (invisible) Mother of Universe.

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?

there are gnostic storis that Maria and Maria Magdalena were Holly prositutes.

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.

Who was the woman who did the voiceover?

Please, Frigg and Idunn 😍😍😍

Snowwwwww.......Fluffy sky water

Freyja is just like Lela a western Slavic goddess

Sweet lady love, love me down

if freyja is also frigg, freyja is an Vanir, is Frigg an Aesir ?

i like Freya.

It'd be excellent if you shared your sources...

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

mary magdeline?

Freyja favors the divine ruler

Endlich einer keiner all der Ami Plastik "Norse paganism" Irren. Danke Arith

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the link with tantra?

Congratulations on getting a green screen.

Caint I get a frontal view on this.

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...

How does she work with lesbians

12 thumbs down they will not enter Valhalla!!!

Topless woman turns around HAS A BEARD!

I know the Christians really tried to kill thr concept of the Goddess. I'm really glad Freya survived. She's truly awesome.

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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 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.

I would like to know the sources for your claim that Freya was a Goddess for prostitutes!

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.

Hookers and beer. What isn't to like about Paganism? 😃