- Aegir: God of the sea(Germanic)
- The Aesir: The youngest branch of the family of gods(Germanic)
- Baba Yaga: Avenger of women(Slavic)
- Buri: Ancestor of the gods(Germanic)
- Dazhbog: God of the sun(Slavic)
- Forseti: God of justice(Germanic)
- Freyja: Goddess of fertility(Germanic)
- Frigg: Queen of the Gods
- Gefion: Goddess of fertility(Germanic)
- Hel: Goddess of the underworld and the dead(Germanic)
- Huginn and Muninn: Ravens — Thought and Memory — belonging to Odin; messengers(Germanic)
- Idun: Goddess of youth and apples(Germanic)
- Jumala: Creator god of Finnish mythology
- Kied Kie Jubmel: Lord of the herbs, stone god(Lapp)
- Leib-Olmai: Lord of the bears(Lapp)
- Loki: God of fire(Germanic)
- Luonnotar: Creatrix goddess(Finnish)
- Madder-Akka and Madder-Atcha: Divine couple who created humankind(Lapp)
- Mati Syra Zemlya: Moist Earth Mother(Slavic)
- Menu: Moon god(Baltic)
- Nerthus: Mother Goddess(Germanic)
- Njord: God of the sea(Germanic)
- Norns: Goddesses of Fate — Urd(Past), Verdandi(Present), Skuld(Future) (Germanic)
- Odin: Father of the gods; gifted in eloquence
- Perunu: God of thunder(Slavic)
- Potrimpo: God of fertility(Slavic)
- Rig: Watchman of the gods(Germanic)
- Saule: Goddess of the sun(Slavic)
- Skadi: Goddess of vengeance and the hunt(Germanic)
- Svarazic: God of fire(Slavic)
- Tapio: God of the forest(Finnish)
- Thor: God of thunder(Germanic)
- Tuoni: God of the dead(Finnish)
- Tyr(Tiwaz) God of the sky and bravery(Germanic)
- Valkyries: Female battle and shield maidens who take brave warriors to Valhalla, the idyllic abode of Odin’s ghostly army(Germanic)
- The Vanir: The older of the two branches of the Germanic family of gods
- Vidar: God of justice(Germanic)
Sunday, June 17, 2012
Norse/Germanic Deities
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