Spiritual
What if wanting things isn't a weakness?
Across many traditions, wanting things is treated as a problem to fix. Something to rise above. A distraction from the "real" spiritual work. But in Norse mythology, desire is a source of power, not a sign of weakness. And nobody makes that case more clearly than Freya.
Freya wept tears of red gold for her lost husband Óðr.— Prose Edda, Snorri Sturluson
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Norse Goddess of Love & War
Freya is the Norse goddess associated with love, fertility, beauty, gold, war, and death. In the Eddas, she is depicted as powerful, unapologetic, and driven by her own desires.
Based on Prose Edda (Gylfaginning) — Snorri Sturluson, translated by Arthur Gilchrist Brodeur, summarised and reframed by Insights.
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