…and her many aliases.

• The Lady
• The Mistress
• The Prostitute
• The Witch of the Woods

Freya is the North Paganism goddess associated with love, beauty, fertility, sex, war, death, and magic.  Her name stems from the Proto-Germanic frawjon, a cognate with Old Saxon frua, or Old High Germanic frouwa.  The modern German word for a woman is Frau.   

Freya is associated with magic for seeing and influencing the future.  Freya is known to rule over a “heavenly field” which receives half of those who die in battle.  The other half is claimed by Odin’s Hall, Valhalla, which is the Hall of the Slain Warriors.  She is one of the Scandinavian/German unholy trinity: Odin/Woden, Balder, Frigga. 

In the Bible, Freya appears as Ancient Mesopotamian “The Queen of Heaven” (Jer. 7:18).  She is mainly written as Ashtoreth in the Old Testament because it’s Hebraic text (Judges 2:13; Judges 10:6, 1 Sam. 7:3; 12:10; 1 Kings 11:4-5; 11:33; 2 Kings 23:13, etc.).  She is referred to in The Book of Revelation as Mystery Babylon, The Prostitute, dressed in purple and scarlet clothing, sitting on many waters, and holding a cup full of unclean things from her sexual immorality (Rev. 17 & 18).  Here she claims, “I rule as queen and am no widow; I will never experience grief!”    

AKAs and Intercultural Connections:

• Frigg, Frey, Nao – Old Norse
• Semiramis – Lydian-Babylonian
• Ishtar – Phoenicia
• Inanna – Sumeria
• The Queen of Heaven – Ancient Mesopotamia
• Mother Mary/Italian Madonna – Modern Catholicism
• The Black Madonna – Modern Black African Catholics
• Asherah – Hebrew
• Oster – Proto-Germanic
• Easter – Proto-Germanic
• Artemis  – Greek
• Venus – Roman
• Aprodite – Greek
• Diana – Roman
• Aurora – Latin
• Austra – Anglo-Saxon
• Stella – Goddess of stars and astrology
• Aster/Astrea – Ancient Greek
• Nut – Egyptian