The Valkyries

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The VALKYRIES (pronounced VAL-kir-ees) are the Norse Goddesses who choose which warriors will go to Valhalla when they are slain. The name Valkyries means "choosers of the slain", and these beautiful women rode on winged horses to battlefields, where they would choose the bravest of the dead warriors and bring them to join Odin's army in Valhalla. The Valkyries wore armor and carried spears, and their armor gives off a glow that flashes through the northern sky as the Aurora Borealis or Northern Lights.

Various individual Valkyries are listed in mythology, some with translations of their names:

ALVITR (all-white)

BRYNNHILDR (mailcoat of battle)

FRIAGABI (giver of freedom)

GEIRAH"od (battle of spears)

GEIRAV"oR

GEIRDRIFUL

GEIR"oNUL

GEIRSK"oGUL

GJ"oLL (battle cry)

G"oNDUL (spear thrust)

GRIMHILDR (mask of battle)

GUdR (sword stroke)

GUdR'uN (battle-rune)

GUNNR (battle)

HERFJ"oTUR (war-fetter)

HERJA

HILDEBERG (battle fortress)

HILDEGUND (battle war)

HILDR (battle)

HJALMthRIMUL

HJ"oRthRIMUL (battle of swords)

HL"oKK (din of battle)

HRIST (shaker)

HRUND

K'aRA

KREIMHILDR

MIST

"OLR'uN (knower of the mysteries of ale)

R'adGR'idR (counsel of peace)

RANDGR'i-dR (shield of peace)

REGINLEIF (heritage of the gods)

R'oTA (she who causes turmoil)

SANNGR'idR (swift stroke)

SIGRDR'iFA (she who drives victory)

SIGR'uN (knower of mysteries of victory)

SKALM"oLD

SKEGGJ"oLD (wearing a war axe)

SK"oGUL (raging)

SKULD (she who is becoming)

SV'aFA (Suebian)

SVANHV'iT

SVEId

SVIPUL (storm)

^I"oGN

^IRIMA

^IR'udR (power)

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Perkwunos

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The name of an Indo-European god of thunder and/or the oak may be reconstructed as *perkunos or *perkunos. Another name for the thunder god contains an onomatopoeic root *tar-, continued in Gaulish Taranis and Hittite Tarhunt. Germanic *Thunraz (Thor) is from a stem *(s)tene- "thunder".

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Goddess Canola

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"CANOLA" IS THE IRISH GODDESS OF MUSIC AND DANCE. THOUGHT TO BE ONE OF THE OLDEST OF THE IRISH DEITIES, SHE HAS BEEN WORSHIPPED SINCE AS EARLY AS 2,300 BC. "CANOLA "WAS THE MYTHICAL INVENTOR OF IRELANDS LONG CHERISHED SYMBOL, THE HARP, AND HAS BEEN WORSHIPPED AS A GODDESS OF MUSIC MAGIC, WATER MAGIC, DREAMS AND INSPIRATION. A PATRONESS OF MUSICIANS AND BARDS, "CANOLA "AIDS THEIR INSPIRATION AND CREATIVITY.

THE LEGEND OF THE HARP'S CREATION RELATES THAT "CANOLA", FLEEING FROM HER HUSBAND, WAS WALKING ALONG THE SHORE WHEN SHE HEARD A SWEET MURMUR AS THE WIND PLAYED THROUGH THE SINEWS THAT WERE STILL CLINGING TO A WHALES SKELETON. LISTENING, SHE FELL INTO A DEEP SLEEP, AND WHEN HER HUSBAND, FINDING HER THUS, LEARNED THAT THE SOUND HAD LULLED HER, HE MADE A FRAMEWORK OF WOOD FOR THE SINEWS. ON THIS HE PLAYED, AND THE PAIR WERE RECONCILED.

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Hel The Norse Goddess Of The Dead

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HEL IS THE NORSE GODDESS OF THE UNDERWORLD KINGDOM OF HELHEIM. SHE IS THE DARK HAG WHO WALKS THE LINE BETWEEN LIFE AND DEATH AND THINS THE VEIL BETWEEN THE WORLDS. SHE PRESIDED OVER THE DEAD, ESPECIALLY THOSE WHO WERE KILLED IN BATTLE. THOSE WHO DIED HEROICALLY IN BATTLE ENDED UP IN VALHALLA, THE HALL OF HEROES. THE LEGEND GOES THAT WITH A SIMPLE WAVE OF HER HAND SHE COULD CAUSE DISEASE, DECAY, AND DEATH. SHE WAS THE DAUGHTER YOUNGEST CHILD OF THE THE TRICKSTER GOD, LOKI AND THE EVIL GIANTESS WHO WAS CALLED ANGERBODA. HER BROTHERS WERE FERRIS (THE EVIL GIANT WOLF) AND JORMUNGARD (THE MIDGARD SERPENT). IT WAS HEL WHO GIFTED ODIN WITH HIS TWIN RAVENS OF PROPHESY AND WISDOM.

HEL HAD QUITE A DISTURBING APPEARANCE, AN UGLY HALF-DEAD HAG WITH GANGRENE LEGS AND A HIDEOUS FACE. IT IS SAID THAT SHE IS BOTH BLACK AND WHITE AND HER BODY WAS SAID THAT HER BODY REPRESENTED BOTH SIDES OF THE SPECTRUM. THE OTHER GODS WERE UNCOMFORTABLE WITH HEL'S APPEARANCE AND AVOIDED HER. THIS MADE HEL VERY UNHAPPY AND LONELY, AND SHE ASKED ODIN IF SHE COULD LEAVE ASGARD. IT WAS THEN THAT ODIN GAVE HER THE WORLD OF HELHEIM TO RULE OVER. SHE WOULD JUDGE OVER THOSE WHO WERE GOOD AND EVIL AND GIVE THEM THEIR JUST REWARDS...THE LEVELS OF 'HEAVEN' OR HELL'.