http://www.patheos.com/blogs/wildhunt/2006/03/pagan-history-of-bearded-lady.html A modern Pagan perspective Fri, 10 Feb 2012 04:46:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 http://www.patheos.com/blogs/wildhunt/2006/03/pagan-history-of-bearded-lady.html#comment-413 Dave H Mon, 27 Mar 2006 21:04:00 +0000 http://patheos.com/blogs/wildhunt/2006/03/1070.html#comment-413 Hi Jason:Uh, don't know what this guy's been smoking, but I know of no representations of Frigga as bearded. And I know the lore pretty well ... further, she's not the Norse "Earth-Mother": to the extent the Norse had such a goddesses it would be Jord ("Earth", the mother of Thor) or Nerthus, an ancient Germanic deity not mentioned past Tacitus, but possibly surviving as the mother of the Vanir.Makes me wonder about his other "sources"...Be well,Dave H. Hi Jason:Uh, don’t know what this guy’s been smoking, but I know of no representations of Frigga as bearded. And I know the lore pretty well … further, she’s not the Norse “Earth-Mother”: to the extent the Norse had such a goddesses it would be Jord (“Earth”, the mother of Thor) or Nerthus, an ancient Germanic deity not mentioned past Tacitus, but possibly surviving as the mother of the Vanir.Makes me wonder about his other “sources”…Be well,Dave H.

]]> http://www.patheos.com/blogs/wildhunt/2006/03/pagan-history-of-bearded-lady.html#comment-412 Wanderer Tue, 21 Mar 2006 19:32:00 +0000 http://patheos.com/blogs/wildhunt/2006/03/1070.html#comment-412 It might be considered equally plausible that these Goddesses were given beards to provide them with a masculine quality, based on the concept that to be so powerful there had to be some aspect of man in them, instead of just the feminine. Note the fact that most Gods of the same time didn't share this androgyny. They were apparently fine without the feminine aspect. It might be considered equally plausible that these Goddesses were given beards to provide them with a masculine quality, based on the concept that to be so powerful there had to be some aspect of man in them, instead of just the feminine. Note the fact that most Gods of the same time didn’t share this androgyny. They were apparently fine without the feminine aspect.

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