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Frigga of the ram-cart

Frigga ("the Beloved one") is indeed a very domestic goddess, associated in particular with that most characteristic task of the ancient housewife, spinning. In Sweden, the “belt” in the constellation Orion is called Friggerock– Frigga’s spindle. Since her cart is drawn by two rams (viz. “Freyja of the ram-cart” would equal Frigga), one assumes she is spinning wool, just as Horn and Holda spin flax. Like Freyja, she also has a falcon plumage, but Frigga’s sacred animal was the goose. In Germany she was worshipped as the goddess Holda or Bertha and was the original Mother Goose.




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