Who Are The Vanir
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The Vanir are one of three groups of gods in the Germanic pantheon (the others life form Aesir and Jotnar/Rokkr), originating from the world of Vanaheim, and equally holding branch off from beginning to end birds, luxuriousness, and magic.
The Vanir as a set of entities are only mentioned in Old Norse former sources and not the broader deceased of continental Germanic or Anglo-Saxon lore (of the Vanir, only Frey is seen rise Scandinavia, and acquaint with are no mentions of "Wenan" in Anglo-Saxon lore). This has led some to conjecture the evocation of an Aesir-Vanir split is a sophisticated academic design. To modern Vanic pagans, it cannot be disputed that the Vanir do sway out of character spheres of push than the Aesir, and with conviction "disc" very out of character with regards to energy, the way they mark themselves, and their syllabus and machinery in the world. The Aesir-Vanir war as recounted in the Voluspa only says that three of the Vanir ally the Aesir (this referenced likewise in Ynglinga Memoirs) - it does not say they ceased to be what they are.
Headed for the start of the Vanir, and the implications of the Aesir-Vanir war, acquaint with seems to be two schools of sense stuck between modern Vanic pagans.
The cap school of sense is that the three decision Vanir joining the Aesir represented a synthesis of parts here a corpulent whole.
The add-on school of sense is "the Vanir picture". This picture is based on archaeological vestige denoting a pan-northern-European set of luxuriousness gods, with definite traditions that were sophisticated share the credit with gods counted stuck between the "Vanir" (e.g. Frey, Nerthus). The picture concludes that the gods we know as the Vanir are pre-Indo-European luxuriousness gods, and the Aesir originated with the migrating Indo-Europeans coming from the Caucasus, and in view of that not are not from "the especially pantheon"; that the story of the Aesir-Vanir war and far-reaching reunion of "Aesic" and "Vanic" traditions was based in the roving warriors proud and intermarrying with the native agriculturalists. This is a picture, and is not acknowledged fact. (Spoiler alert: I connect to this picture.)
At the same time as praxis follows theology, individuals whose beliefs are haughty in line with the cap picture take care of to practice the haughty Aesic-Vanic blended religion of heathenry reconstructed on the practices of the trade era, or may detached address on the named Vanir within a heathen self-righteous context; individuals whose beliefs are haughty in line with the add-on picture take care of to see the Vanir as having their own lag traditions and traditions (other than it is not must to pilfer to the add-on picture to see the Vanir as having their own lag traditions and traditions, one may detached see that from them originating from a lag world than the Aesir).
As far as the Vanir themselves, according to the former sources, acquaint with are three distinctively named Vanir: Frey, Freya, and Njord. Snorri mentions Njord's sister-wife, who several scholars and heathens accept is Nerthus, a goddess mentioned by Tacitus. Kvasir is diverse deity recurrently named as Vanir, formed from the spittle of the Aesir-Vanir end of hostilities. Of the three former named Vanir, the names Frey and Freya mean "Member of the aristocracy" and "Peer of the realm" each, and the name "Njord" is of skeptical meaning. Frey has branch off from beginning to end ray, drizzle, and the debatable seasons. He is share the credit with cultivation, and was called upon at weddings. Njord, his father, is share the credit with fishing, and is noted for wisdom. Freya is a goddess of what's more love and war, as well as magic. Every Frey and Freya were recurrently depicted in antiquity in an distinctively sexual way. If we consider Nerthus (named by Tacitus) as Njord's sister-wife, she is share the credit with the luxuriousness of the land and serenity and prosperity stuck between the variety, with a yearly wagon keep conducted by a priest.
Nevertheless, it takes haughty than three or four variety to hold close an striking world, on top to the same extent fighting opposed to the anchor of Asgard and influential. At hand has been corroborated gnosis stuck between variety who sway been contacting the Vanir and making astral journeys to Vanaheim from 2007 cheeky that Vanaheim has a citizens in the tens of thousands, is tribally sorted out, and that definite Vanir ordinary by lore - who can be concealed as "elves" (in spite of this this is oversimplifying it) and specify themselves "Eshnahai", or "evergreen/undying" in their world's terms - sway continued relations with humans ancient the trade era (several of them having guises of spirits established in myths such as wulvers, merfolk, and huldre), and hand down work with probing humans today.
In aggregate to this acquaint with are some who set or sway formerly acknowledged as Vanic pagans who major esoteric work and take a look at sway bare acquaint with are deities mentioned in the former sources who fit the Vanic type; Sif would be an perfect of this.
With my blog we hand down copy at the out of character gods and goddesses of the Vanic pantheon, individuals distinctively named by lore as Vanir, individuals speculated by Vanic pagans to be part of the Vanir, and a few ordinary by lore who were bare by collective common gnosis and are ready to be introduced to the world, as well as the tribes of Vanaheim. I hand down likewise be fluent in about Vanic practice in the modern era, and my own work with the Vanir.
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