I was re-reading the article I had written about Freya and Love. I have been reading lately on the Sovereign goddess of the Land and how she functioned in the ancient world. This is stuff I have known for years but I needed to relearn it. I guess I've forgotten some of the things I used to know.
I spent my teens and early 20s in a spiritual path. Then sometime in my mid 20s I lost that path. I've been so consumed with job, family, daily life mundanity that I didn't spend time on the spiritual.
It took me fifteen years to get back on track.
Freya, as a Vanir goddess, agricultural society, would have been the Sovereign of the Land. Her "love" was what consecrated kingships. Calling her a slut is definitely a Christian invention and judgement. It adds to the idea that the Lokasenna was made up or heavily manipulated by the later Christian writers.
And kings were sometimes worshipped as gods in death. Ing for example was so loved and his kingdom so prosperous and fertile during his lifetime that he must have been especially "loved" by the land goddess. When he died and was deified in death it could be implied that Her "love" aided his ascension.
Just thoughts rattling around right now.
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