Asatru Folk Assembly - September 11, 2025


Freyja and Motherhood #afa #asatru #asatrufolkassembly #shorts


Episode Stats


Length

1 minute

Words per minute

120.48

Word count

162

Sentence count

10

Harmful content

Misogyny

1

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Summary

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In this episode, I discuss why Frigga and Nana are better suited to the role of motherly wisdom and guidance than Nana, and why it's not wrong to ask them for help with motherly advice and guidance.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 Why is it that many seem to call on Freya for motherly wisdom or guidance, i.e. helping to conceive, when Frigga and Nana would be more suited for those types of calls?
00:00:13.840 So again, I talked earlier about this. Our gods are multifaceted. Whereas Frigga is much more overtly a god of motherhood, it's not wrong to call upon Freya to help with motherhood. That's not wrong or bad.
00:00:34.420 And specifically when we talk about help conceiving, Frigg has a lot to do with being a mother. 0.91
00:00:46.640 But lust and the sex act itself are much more typically the domain of Freya.
00:00:55.000 The idea of wanting Freya to inspire a child to be born of that lust, of that passion and that love between a man and a woman, I don't think is inappropriate at all.
00:01:11.660 Again, just because one god or goddess is good at one thing doesn't mean the other gods and goddesses are not good at that thing.