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A scene from one of the Merseburg Incantations: gods Wodan and Balder stand before the goddesses Sunna, Sinthgunt, Volla, and Friia (Emil Doepler, 1905). In Germanic paganism, the indigenous religion of the ancient Germanic peoples who inhabit Germanic Europe, there were a number of different gods and goddesses.
Sól (Old Norse: , "Sun") [1] or Sunna (Old High German, and existing as an Old Norse and Icelandic synonym: see Wiktionary sunna, "Sun") is the Sun personified in Germanic mythology. One of the two Old High German Merseburg Incantations, written in the 9th or 10th century CE, attests that Sunna is the sister of Sinthgunt.
A West Germanic spring goddess associated with a festival held in her name during the 'Easter-month', *Austro-mēnōþ, equivalent to modern 'April'. [7] The matronae Austriahenae, if Germanic, derive from the same stem. [8] The Old English and Old High German forms are the origin of the modern holiday names Easter and Ostern, respectively. [9]
Sulis, British goddess whose name is related to the common Proto-Indo-European word for "Sun" and thus cognate with Helios, Sól, Sol, and Surya and who retains solar imagery, as well as a domain over healing and thermal springs. Probably the de facto solar deity of the Celts.
Mike Shenk (born 1958) is an American crossword puzzle creator and editor. He has been the editor of the Wall Street Journal crossword puzzle since 1998. He is considered one of the foremost crossword constructors of his time. [1] [2] [3]
Nerthus's cart is met with celebration and peacetime everywhere it goes, and during her procession no one goes to war and all iron objects are locked away. In time, after the goddess has had her fill of human company, the priest returns the cart to her "temple" and slaves ritually wash the goddess, her cart, and the cloth in a "secluded lake".
Bust of the sun-god Helios, second century AD; the holes were used for the attachment of a sun ray crown, Ancient Agora Museum, Athens, Greece. Helios is the son of Hyperion and Theia , [ 24 ] [ 25 ] [ 26 ] or Euryphaessa, [ 27 ] or Basileia, [ 28 ] and the only brother of the goddesses Eos and Selene.
Freyja, goddess of fertility, gold, death, love, beauty, war and magic; Freyr, god of fertility, rain, sunlight, life and summer; Iðunn the goddess of spring who guards the apples that keep the gods eternally young; wife of the god Bragi [4] Jörð, personification of the earth and the mother of Thor