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Kneeling Before the Gods
“We stand before our Gods, we do not kneel before them.” I do not know how many times I have heard something like that stated in Heathen circles. And most accept it as fact. The truth is, its history goes no farther back than the Viking Brotherhood in the early ’70s. If we were to go by the lore, we would see it is quite a different story.
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Plough Charming Ceremony by ~Thorskegga
Photo of a Chiltern Kindred ‘Plough Charming’ ceremony marking the start of the agricultural year.
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This one is for Lover’s Blot, the Heathen equivalent of Valentines Day.
The figures represent the god and goddess of love and fertility Frey and Freya. The other items are symbolic of love, the brass lovers’ lamp, a cup decorated with the tree of life, a ribbon symbolising partnership, red roses and a carved love spoon.
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Freyr, the ruler of Alfheim (“elf home”=realm of the elves), is the god of sun and rain, virility, fertlility and the patron of bountiful harvests. He is both a god of peace and a brave warrior.
Freyr is the most prominent and most beautiful of the male members of the Vanir.
He is married to the beautiful giantess Gerd, and he and his twinsister Freya, are the children of Njord and Njord’s sister Jord.
Freyr has two equestrian-animals: A golden boar Gullinbursti (“golden bristle”) ,which was made for him by the dwarves Brokk and Eitri, and a horse named Blodighofi - (“The one with blood on the hoofs”).
Freyr owns the ship Skidbladnir (“wooden-bladed”), which always sails directly towards its target, and which can become so small that it can fit in Freyr’s pocket.
He also possessed a sword that would by itself emerge from its sheath and spread a field with carnage whenever the owner desired it.
Freyr’s shield bearer and servant is Skirnir, to whom he gave his sword, which Skirnir demanded as a reward for making Gerd his wife.
Would he miss his self-fighting sword? There are two mentioned fights where he doesn’t have his self-fightning sword:
He fought Beli (who seems to have been the celtic God with powers similar to his own) and defeated Beli with an antler as a weapon. Beli was no match for him, and he could have killed Beli with his bare hands.
His second mentioned fight/duel is harder:
On the day of Ragnarok Frey will, in lack of the self-fighting sword, wrestle the fire giant Surt, who kills him.
Freyr, sometimes referred to as Yngvi-Freyr, was especially associated with Sweden and seen as an ancestor of the former Swedish royal house. The center of his cult was the city Uppsala in Sweden. In southern Sweden he was called Fricco.
~Mary & Mattias~
Freyr has two equestrian-animals: A golden boar Gullinbursti (“golden bristle”) ,which was made for him by the dwarves Brokk and Eitri, and a horse named Blodighofi - (“The one with blood on the hoofs”).
Freyr owns the ship Skidbladnir (“wooden-bladed”), which always sails directly towards its target, and which can become so small that it can fit in Freyr’s pocket.
He also possessed a sword that would by itself emerge from its sheath and spread a field with carnage whenever the owner desired it.
Freyr’s shield bearer and servant is Skirnir, to whom he gave his sword, which Skirnir demanded as a reward for making Gerd his wife.
Would he miss his self-fighting sword? There are two mentioned fights where he doesn’t have his self-fightning sword:
He fought Beli (who seems to have been the celtic God with powers similar to his own) and defeated Beli with an antler as a weapon. Beli was no match for him, and he could have killed Beli with his bare hands.
His second mentioned fight/duel is harder:
On the day of Ragnarok Frey will, in lack of the self-fighting sword, wrestle the fire giant Surt, who kills him.
Freyr, sometimes referred to as Yngvi-Freyr, was especially associated with Sweden and seen as an ancestor of the former Swedish royal house. The center of his cult was the city Uppsala in Sweden. In southern Sweden he was called Fricco.
~Mary & Mattias~
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Temple Of Our Heathen Gods
This is a Heathen website, focused on the Asatru religion and honoring the Northern Gods.
We are based in the Kansas City area, on the border between Kansas and Missouri.
We have formed a Heathen Kindred in Kansas City dedicated to the Asatru Religion.
Our Kansas City Heathen Kindred is tribal in nature, and is called Jotun’s Bane Kindred.
We host a yearly heathen gathering called Lightning Across the Plains.
