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Goddess Hel

In Norse mythology, Hel or Hella (sometimes translated as hidden at other times as Death) is the goddess of the underworld, daughter of Loki, the god of deception, and Angrboða, a giantess.

His brothers are Jormungand Fenrir the wolf and the sea serpent. It is said that when he came to the world the disease struck for the first time humanity and that she brought into the world of the living the pain and despair.

So when he learned that Odin, Loki, the evil of the children had them banished to the far corners of creation, why did the least damage possible. Despite the kingdom that Odin gave was icy and horrible, Hel was pleased and gave him, in gratitude, a pair of ravens Huginn and Munin. Odin gave them power over those who had not used the Valhalla and then became a queen of the dead without honor, illness, accident or old age, traitors and criminals. It was through this that he managed to get a husband of royal blood, the Swedish king Dyggve, who died a natural death.

The kingdom of Hel is the goddess of the same name (similar to Hades greek). It is a cold place to be accessed through the large cave guarded by ferocious hound Gnipahellir Garmr. After the cave, the dead cross the river on a bridge Gjöll gold guarded by the giant Moðguðr. Palace of Hel Éljúðnir is the palace where the souls are accepted. In a separate location, said Náströnd, the souls of the murderers and traitors are tortured in order to build the ship Naglfar (Ship of Nails) on which the dead come back to fight on the day of Ragnarök.

Hel has two servants ganglia (lazy), Ganglöt (sloppy).

Hel rarely goes out on the ground, but when he does bring misfortune and disease passes through the streets and villages and people of ill suddenly. If you sweep the road with a rake, there will be survivors, but if they all will have a broom.

Hel is described as a woman somehow twofold: half face Black or cadaveric and half normal. This may reflect the process of his figure in mythology. In ancient times, in fact, Hel was the great mother earth goddess, which feeds the hungry and give them relief, but later became very similar to Pluto and women of his kingdom became comparable to Hades greek. Some portions of the goddess have suggested to several scholars to establish a relation with the characteristics of Parvati-Kali or Persephone, or even of Hecate.

should also be noted that the process of the Norse pantheon shows clear signs of a past dominated by women, common to many cults in the world, which gives way to the dominion of the male figure. The female figure becomes Daughter of deceit, the bringer of chaos, of unstoppable destructive fury and home to a terrible law and incomprehensible to the common human sense. The male figure is to represent the rational, understand the law, the value in battle. This step becomes very marked in conjunction with a meeting with the Christianity that sostiuirà in various Pantheon, the female goddesses with Mary, Mother of God, the pivot of salvation from all evil.

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