ROMAN NUMINA & NORSE MYTHOLOGY

• Inhabits everything in nature.

• Gods, divine manifestations, faceless, formless, but no less powerful.

• Manifest the divine will by means of natural phenomena, which the pious Roman constantly seeks to interpret. 

• Guard of Cradle

• Presider over children’s food

• Simple acts of everyday life was connected to them.

Numina

Continued to exist and it was related to any manifestation of the divine.

Numen

Spirits of pantry & kitchen; Protected food stuff from spoilage.

Panes/Penates

Spirits of one familial dead requiring acknowledgement and honor; Worshipped at home and not in temples.

Lares

In the beginning, there was nothing but this.

Ginnungagap

Day of doom, day when heaven and earth will be destroyed.

Ragnarok

Great ash tree; Supported the universe with roots connecting the 9 worlds.

Yggdrasil

Norns guarded it; Urda (Past); Verdandi (Present), Skuld (Future).

Urda's Well

Located far north: darkness & ice/cold realm of death.

Niflheim

Located south: land of fire.

Muspelheim

Home of the gods; It is a grave and solemn place, over which hangs the threat of inevitable doom.

Asgard

One of the halls in Asgard; A brave death entitles mortals to a seat here.

Valhalla

Father of Frost Giants.

• Father of a six headed son that was nourished by Audumla

Ymir/Aurgelmir

Cosmic cow who fed herself by licking the salty rime stone.

Audumla

The first stone man;

First primeval god.

Father of Bor

Buri

Son of Buri;

Married Bestla,

the daughter of frost giant Boltha.

Bor

The Chief Ruler of Asgard, All-Father, Skyfather.

Had responsibility more than all the other gods in postponing Ragnarok

Supreme among gods and men, yet even constantly seeking for more wisdom.

WEDNESDAY

Odin

Palace of Odin

Gladsheim

Maiden attendants of Odin; Chief task was to go to battlefield and decide at Odin's bidding who should win and die.

Valkyries

Most beloved of the gods, on earth as in heaven; His death was first of the disasters which fell upon the gods.

Balder

Wife of Odin; Very wise but very silent.

FRIDAY

Frigga

God of mischief; Continually involved the gods in difficulties and dangers.

Loki

Loki's wife; She came to Loki's aid by taking the venom in the cup.

Sigyn

Thunder-god; Strongest of the Aesir.

THURSDAY

Thor

Cared for the fruits of the earth.

Freyr

Warder of Bifrost.

Heimdall

the rainbow bridge which led to Asgard.

Bifrost

God of War.

TUESDAY

Tyr

Goddess of love and beauty.

FRIDAY

Freya

Goddess of Death.

Hela/Hel

Balder's brother;

Blind;

Tricked by Loki into shooting Balder with the mistletoe.

Hoder

The one who offered himself to go down to Niflheim to ask Hela for Balder.

Hermod

Active, and persistent enemies of the Aesir.

Giants