Essay on The Love Goddess Freya Aphrodite - 1283 Words

A love goddess is a deity associated with sexuality, love, fertility, beauty, and in some occasion’s death. These goddess are common in mythology and may be found in many polytheistic religions. Although there are vast differences among these goddess’, since they have to serve each particular culture’s needs, there are also many similarities that can be drawn to them. There are two love goddess’ that are believed to have many similarities, they are the Greek goddess Aphrodite and the Norse goddess Freya. Although these goddess’ have many differences some similarities are their appearance, lost lovers, a love of beautiful things, charm, an association with the sea, the day Friday and fish. Aphrodite was an extremely attractive young†¦show more content†¦To acquire the necklace Freya utilizes her power as the goddess of love and beauty (sleeping with dwarfs to keep it) and to regain the necklace after its theft, she enlists her power as the goddess of warfare. Her feminine greed for beauty forms a link between creation and destruction. Freya’s story forms and abstract correlation to human life, an act of love brings a new human into the world, the human receives possessions and eventually dies. Both Aphrodite and Freya are known for their charm. Aphrodite wears her golden girdle to enhance her beauty and to compel love. When Aphrodite wore her magic girdle, made by her husband Hephaestus, it caused men and gods to fall hopelessly in love with her. No one could resist her, and she was all too irresistible already. And while Freya began to long for gold, only to make her more beautiful, so she snuck away from her husband and went in search of the Giants. She came across four Dwarves who possessed the most beautiful necklace ever created. They made the jewelry of gold, rubies, and amber and Freya had to have it. The Dwarves made a bargain with her; she could have the necklace if she slept with each of them. Fr eya was disgusted, but then she looked upon the necklace, Brisingamen, again and she told them that she would comply. When she returned from spending her time with the Dwarves, she found that her husband had disappeared. OD Freya’s husband was a bit flirtatious himself; he was tempted by the warmerShow MoreRelatedWomen s Suffrage Movement : The Perfect Woman2632 Words   |  11 Pagespower. The five goddesses of the â€Å"big Twelve† Olympians (Athena, Hera, Demeter, Artemis, and Aphrodite) did not have as grand of power as the gods. They were over weaving, family, crops, maidens, and love (respectively), which looks pathetic next to God of Lightning, or God of the Forges. In old stories, the Council was balanced, six women, six men. Hestia, the goddess of the hearth was the original sixth goddess and an actual immortal, born alongside Hera and Poseidon, and swallowed by Kronos. Dionysus