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Old 03-07-2009, 08:30 AM   #68 (permalink)
TeafortheSoul
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Seventh Year

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Hearing a Gryffindor girl mention mistletoe, Cela blushed and shot a sweet little smile at Plymouth before transfering her smile to Professor Lupa and raising her hand to answer, "The relationship between mistletoe and Frigg is because she loved her son Balder so much that she made all things promise not to hurt him, but mistletoe was all tricksy and wouldn't make the promise. Then Loki threw mistletoe at Balder and it killed him and after that Frigg's tears became the berries of mistletoe and she made mistletoe represent love. Frigg had the power of prophecy as well as being a goddess of fertility, love, household management and domestic arts and being presented in the role of wife and mother."

Celandine focused on the question and not on peppermint frogs, "But anyway, about Freya, she was born, or created or whatever way gods come about, as a member of the Vanir, who were the older pantheon of gods that were eventually overcome and assimilated by the Æsir. It is generally held that Freya married into the Æsir pantheon when she married Odr who is sometimes thought to be Odin. So yeah, she was the goddess of love and fertility and she and Frigg are sometimes considered the same personality, Freya's brother Freyr partially replaces her in these instances. And the thing with the cats and the cloak that makes her a bird and the necklace she got from... dwarves, like people already said. But... its a bit confusing that Freya and Frigg are sometimes the same and sometimes not. But either way the easiest way to look at it is that Frigg is the highest goddess of the Æsir, while Freya is the highest goddess of the Vanir and it has been suggested that they might be part of a trifecta of godesses and represent different stages of womankind, since occassionally they appear in the same text."

Like Tobi, Cela thought it worth mentioning both since Paris had been singled out as Frigg and then held up when Professor Lupa asked about Freya.

Hmmmm. It was confusing though.
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