Goddess of sexuality and sensuality. Goddess of love, beauty and attraction. She was also associated with war, death and magic. Freyja was said to be the most beloved, honored, and renowned among goddesses. But Freyja's erotic qualities became an easy target for Christianism, in which an asexual virgin was the ideal woman. She's called a whore by the Church men.
"White were the moorlands,
And frozen before her;
Green were the moorlands,
And blooming behind her.
Out of her gold locks
Shaking the spring flowers,
Out of her garments
Shaking the south wind,
Around in the birches
Awaking the throstles,
And making chaste housewives all
Long for their heroes home,
Loving and love-giving,
Came she to Scoring."
The Longbeards' Saga, Charles Kingsley
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