Tag Archive for: divine forces
Eira
Circle of Ostara Articles, Deities & LoreEira is the goddess of healing, the force behind the power to heal and the giver of bountiful health.
The Æsir – An introduction
Circle of Ostara Articles, Deities & LoreIn our attempts to write about the characteristics of our racial gods and goddesses, it is all too easy to fall into the trap mentioned in other articles in this series - that of seeing them as literary figments, characters in old stories and not as beings actually existing in a wider reality than that of the material world.
Giants and the reliability of received mythology (from the Eddas, Snorri and Saxo)
Circle of Ostara Articles, Deities & LoreThere appear to be two main classifications of deity grouped together under the term "giant": great creative spirits, and the powerful guardians of certain localities - mountains and rivers, for instance.
The Old Gods, the Vanir and the Three Worlds
Circle of Ostara Articles, Deities & LoreTo our understanding the archaic divine forces who shaped the Living Stream when it first started flowing, continue still to shape it within the biological microcosm. The one-celled creatures and the cellular colonies which make up "higher" life forms are still controlled by these great (yet remote from us) spiritual beings and will be in their care as long as life continues on the Earth.