• Examines their rites of passage and initiation rituals and their most important gods

Includes a color insert showing each of the thirty-three crystals

and the uses to which many of these things are put in traditional practice

The discussions are highly readable yet consistently thorough

Freyja, Lady, Vanadis: An Introduction to the Goddess death rights • Examines their rites ofAn Insightful Look at a Complex Deity Freyja, Lady, Vanadis: An Introduction to the Goddess examines Freyja, perhaps the best known goddess of Norse mythology. Using original source material, extant writings, and scholarship the author builds an image of the goddess as she may have appeared to her followers in pre Christian Northern Europe. Patricia Lafayllve then uses the knowledge she has compiled to speculate on aspects of modern worship of this