Frówe Within the Divine Triad: Building Upon Connections

Within the Indo-European Divine Twin mythos, the Norse appear to have morphed the twins into a Father-Son duo, with the sister goddess becoming the other twin. Frówe (Freyja to the Norse) bears the ability to dawn a skin of feathers (Þrymskviða; Skáldskaparmál). Birds, such as Swans (Vǫlundarkviða), ravens (Cotton Cleopatra A. iii; Helgakviða Hundingsbana II; Húsdrápa; Hrafnsmál), and hawks (Skáldskaparmál) are intimately associated with the Wælcyrġan, the receivers of the slain. Frówe, as recorded, is the Hawk-skinned Wælcyrġan leader who receives half the battle-slain warriors. Each Germanic expression contains a piece of the puzzle that comprise our sacred Folcsida.

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Next week, we’ll connect Henġest, Horsa, & Rowena with Fréa, Nyord, & Frówe, in our Divine Twins study, but for today, let’s look at a Frithstead side project: focusing on learning a form of Old English that utilizes the Late West Saxon dialect, yet with the grammatical structure of modern English. Called Folcsprǽċ, it’s a simplified version of the Old English language that’s designed to be easily incorporated into our daily speech and is geared toward those who aren’t language-minded, yet desire to learn their ancestral language. Through this endeavor, we can build Folcsida and honor our gods & forefathers. I invite you to join, and welcome you to, Leornung Folcsprǽċ.

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A powerful, insightful message from the Heliotroph blog.

“In 1000 years there will be no America, Russia, or China in any contemporarily intelligible form, but there will still be Gods and there will still be children of your children living in their world. The only patrimony you can actually guarantee them that far into the future is your own presence as an Ancestor.”

When there is no more “America” or “Russia” or “China”, and modern, Westphalian nation-state identities have become irrelevant, what will you be? How will you identify yourself? Without knowing from whom you descend, how will you know what identity to bequeath to your own descendants?

Ancestry, denoting actual membership in an ethnic religion, is absolutely essential. Germanic ancestry in the patriline, as in all Indo-European spiritual traditions, is essential to Heathenry. Many modern “folkish” and reconstructionist Heathens place emphasis on Heathenry as an ancestral faith, without actually knowing who their ancestors are, or ignoring who they are if it seems more advantageous to do so.

Yet, ancestry is only the beginning, not the end, of the journey. What are you doing to better yourself? What are you doing to better your family? What kind of patrimony are you leaving to your posterity?

Will you be an Ancestor worth honoring?

Something to ponder...
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Ġesǽliġ Fæder Dæġ
Happy Father’s Day

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Seaxnéat, Ingwine-Fréa, a Germanic Father-god

The Anglo-Saxon Rune poem states that Ing was from the East-Danes, which puts him in the lands of the southern Swedes and Danes. These lands, & the folk which live, & have lived in them, have been interconnected for millennia. Some believe that the Skåne region of southern Sweden is the sacred orhámet, or original homeland, which spawned the ethnogenesis of the Germanic folk. Given that the broader Germanic folk, from Germany to England and Scandinavia to Northern Italy, evolved out of a Common Germanic folk, this is not out of the realm of legitimate possibility; thus, only reinforces the belief that Seaxnéat, Ingwine-Fréa, is the type of “Father-god” to many of the Germanic folk, if not all of the tribes and their diaspora today.

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Seaxnéat, Ingwine-Fréa, a Germanic Horse-God

Seaxnéat, Ingwine-Fréa, while connected and known for many things, is intimately connected with horses and can be considered a Horse-God. In Trondheim, Norway, in association with the horse cult, to Ing was kept sacred horses in a sanctuary dedicated to him. Lokasenna 37 states that Fréa is the …”best of all the bold riders” and Hrafnkell’s Saga mentions that Fréa was gifted the horse, Freyfaxi. What’s important to note, is that within the Lore, gifts and offerings were indications of what pleased the gods or what the gods were associated with. An example is an offering of goat to Þunor or mead to Wóden. In this case, the horse with Fréa. Also, in Nafnaþulur, it’s mentioned that Fréa has a horse named Blóðughófi. Our forefathers honored a wide spectrum of gods, though many were devotees to particular gods.

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Frówe is Éastre

Outlined & discussed in the StJ interview with Angriff & Redbeard (linked below), Frówe is likely the Anglo-Saxon goddess Éastre. Although connecting any Germanic goddess to the Dawn is speculative, but when using comparative Indo-European mythological & historical studies, & delving into linguistics, connections become apparent & the scattered pieces of the puzzle begin to form a larger picture. A few of the many points mentioned include how Dawn goddesses are associated with gold, blonde hair, light, treasures, & tears. She is close family kin to the Horse Twins; although, to the Norse, she is the sister/daughter of the male pair, Nyord & Fréa. In the Lore, Frówe is accused of being sexually promiscuous & during Éostremonaþ, sexual mores are relaxed. Another name for Frówe is Mardöll, Shining Sea, which is seen as the dawn over the sea. *Note that Frówe’s necklace, Bringsingamen, was under the sea.

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“When the family shall no longer have a head, and the great foundation for the subordination of children in the mother's example is gone; when the mother shall have found another sphere than her home for her energies; when she shall have exchanged the sweet charities of domestic love and sympathy for the fierce passions of the hustings; when families shall be disrupted at the caprice of either party, and the children scattered as foundlings from their hearthstone, — it requires no wisdom to see that a race of sons will be reared nearer akin to devils than to men. In the hands of such a bastard progeny, without discipline, without homes, without a God, the last remains of social order will speedily perish, and society will be overwhelmed in savage anarchy.”

— R.L. Dabney

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Henġest, Horsa, & Hwítmanu: A Gods’-Blessed Triad

In looking at Henġest, Horsa, & Rowena, the Divine Twin mythos, & Fréa, Nyord, & Frówe, we can see connections & parallels. Henġest & Horsa were likely of the Cult of Fréa. Rowena, possibly called Hwítmanu, was likely their sister, with the foreign Welsh writers not knowing her exact relation to the Horse Twin brothers, so reckoned her as a daughter. It’s plausible that Henġest, Horsa, & Hwítmanu, when sailing southward from Éotaland, brought with them the Cult of Nyord, Fréa, & Frówe. With the Norse dropping their names, in favor of their noscripts, the Anglo-Saxons retained their names, Seaxnéat & Éastre, with Nyord, like Horsa, taking on secondary roles, or even disappearing from record. Whether avatars of, or ones gifted, empowered, & inspired by the three gods, Henġest, Horsa, & Hwítmanu were fated for greatness; bringing their gods to another land & founding a nation that would spawn men who conquered the world.

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With the (United States) Supreme Court’s recent overturning of the Roe vs. Wade decision (which gave the US federal government jurisdiction over abortions), it seems timely and appropriate to highlight what our ancient ancestors thought of the inter-related concepts of abortion and contraception:

Numerum liberorum finire aut quemquam ex adgnatis necare flagitium habetur, plusque ibi boni mores valent quam alibi bonae leges.
“To restrict the number of children or to kill any of their subsequent children is considered an outrage; Good morality is more effective there [in Germania] than good laws are elsewhere.”
—Tacitus, Germania 19

The Folcsida Ġerímbóc: Part 1
(The Folcsida Calendar)

Within Heathendom, as well as greater humanity, calendrical systems have been employed to keep an account of the passage of time. In the days of yore, our forebears followed the sun and moon, charting their paths across the skies and kept reckonings of their cyclical nature. Calendrical systems varied from tribe to tribe. Such reasonings behind the variants were to fit a specific locale, as our folk subsisted on farming & hunting and land varies from place to place. Other such variances boiled down to the varied traditions & customs a particular folk would observe. In short, there was no one-way to reckon time nor a universal time scheduled to observe holidays. Our folk were as flexible as they were independent. In the coming days, I’ll discuss this calendrical system, which in the spirit of transparency, the Folcsida Ġerímbóc is a modern creation, which includes the Norse, but is clearly & primarily Anglo-Saxon focused. It’s important to note however, that it’s construction & layout is entirely historically-based. Within Heathendom, for reasons that escape me, the Calendar is an issue of much debate, handwringing, & gnashing of teeth. In the spirit of friþ, I present this calendar as an option, nothing more, nothing less.

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The Folcsida Ġerímbóc: Part 2

Our forebears observed two seasons, what we call the Missere Tída (Half-Year Seasons). Bede stated “The people split the year into two seasons, summer and winter. They called the month when winter began Wintirfyllith, by a name from winter and full moon, as winter is allotted the beginning of the same month from the full moon of the same month…” The first Winter month corresponds to late September & October. In adopting the accuracy of the Gregorian calendar, the Folcsida Ġerímbóc converts the lunar reckoning to solar. In keeping the first Winter as close to the original as possible, the date is shifted to the Hærfest Emnyht (Fall Equinox), which ranges from a few days to a couple weeks early. As with the evolution of two to four seasons in early Christian times & the English calendar riots of 1752, man has continually shifted & altered calendrical systems in the quest to bring accuracy & simplification; the Folcsida Ġerímbóc is no different.

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Heritage

I can feel my heritage through shrouded mists of lore,
Feel ancestors blessing me from ancient days of yore,
I see dragonships grounding on skraelings distant shore
I hear the song of axe and berserkers’ frenzied roar…

All of time resides in me, pulses through my veins
And those who came before me live in me again,
The past does not repeat itself but neither does it die,
I have every warrior that ever was inside me and alive…

I am the proud, the valiant, the steadfast and the true
And as long as life is left in me, I’ll stand back to back with you,
Breast-dew runs like sea of red, with singing edge we fight,
The valkyries wait to take us home, the ravens gorge tonight…

Lose not your sense of heritage, neither lose the way
For countless lives were lived and lost so you might live today,
Honour right your ancestors, to your Gods pay tribute too
For all that is or ever was is now alive in you…

~ Johnny Whitebread

Light, rebirth and new life.

The Grail is many things to a man throughout his life:

It is his reputation, hard fought and well won.

It is his brotherhood, from which flows the wellspring of youth and honor.

It is his woman, earned through strong deed and right action.

It is her womb, and the seed that quickens it, and the life that springs forth and makes him live forever.

Hail the Sun, the Sword, and the Cup that holds the Blood of Heroes.

The Folcsida Ġerímbóc: Part 3

Whereas our forebears observed two seasons, summer and winter, late in the Anglo-Saxon period, after they were well-entrenched in Christendom, influence from Rome saw the emergence of the year quartered into seasons: hærfest, winter, lencten, & sumor. Recordings illustrate that the solar dates, or sunnlíċ Tælmearca were observed, albeit not in a religious sense, but in an agrarian function. Nevertheless, the Folcsida Ġerímbóc, while observing the native two-seasoned year, lists the quarter reckonings as a point of reference (if one chooses to follow this pattern of yearly division). Hærfest ran from August 7th to November 6th, Winter from November 7th to February 6th, Lencten from February 7th to May 8th & sumor from May 9th to August 6th (Bosworth-Toller, 1898). Interestingly, these are close to the astronomical midpoint reckonings, we know today as, August 7th, November 7th, February 3rd, & May 5th.

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The Folcsida Ġerímbóc: Part 4

Timekeeping in Anglo-Saxon days utilized both the moonly and sunly cycles. At its heart, a calendar is simply a timekeeping system, and within the Folcsida Ġerímbóc, the sun’s path, being a relative constant, provides its mathematical foundational structure, hey our Anglo-Saxon forebears combined the sunly and moonly in the calculation of religious observance. The main sunnlíċ tælmearca, or sunly dates, are the Hærfest Emnyht (Fall Equinox), Winter Sunstede (Winter Solstice/Midwinter), Lencten Emnyht (Spring Equinox), & Sumor Sunstede (Summer Solstice/Midsummer).

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