Gnosis Diary: Life as a Heathen
My personal experiences, including religious and spiritual experiences, community interaction, general heathenry, and modern life on my heathen path, which is Asatru.
Novel Gnosis part 4: Bestla
Odin’s mother Bestla was Jotun, but she and her husband, the Asa god Bor, made their home in Asgard when all the worlds were new.
In my novel gnosis, Bestla died in the First War. Odin’s grief was so great that he decided to make war itself a sacred thing in her honor. He had been building a hall for himself near his parents’ hill dwelling, but after their deaths he moved into the hill and finished his hall as Valhalla, a place for his chosen warriors.
I didn't know it when I wrote Some Say Fire, but the story of Bestla in the Fireverse parallels the story of Tailtiu and Lugh in Celtic mythology. That makes Lugh an equivalent of Odin. (Hat tip to Shirl Sazynski for this info.)
Image: Mother Goddess by Ajay Kumar Singh via Pixabay
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