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I'm Amanda.

And I'm Julia. And this is episode 338 all about your mother goddess and mine, Freya.

Ah, Freya. Well, everyone, welcome to once again, it's Norse, of course.

Bum-a-bum-p-p-p-p-p-poo-oo. So as Amanda already told us, we are going to be talking about the goddess Freya today, who we've

mentioned a couple of times at this point, but I'm very, very excited to kind of dig deeper into

her whole background and lore, because I think that she is fascinating. And as always, Amanda,

just keep in mind as we're going through this,

what title you want to give Freya at the end of this episode. You've been on the ball with all

of these so far. I've been very, very happy with them. Thank you. You got it. So, Freya is the goddess

of blessings, love, lust, and fertility. Okay. Which, at least in my mind, I feel like I'm

somewhat colored by our understanding of like other love and lust goddesses, in particular

goddesses like Aphrodite. That's when we talk about love and lust, the first that comes to my mind.

But Freya is really

interesting. While not an exception, she's a very interesting flavor of love goddess. And I think

you'll see a little bit more of what I'm talking about as we dig deeper into her. You know, a lot of

my assumptions or the kind of Greco-Roman tradition of mythology that, you know, you and I read books about in

elementary school lead me to false assumptions about Norse mythology. They, you know,

because it's a whole mythology and worldview and cosmos, have their own understandings of

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