Encyclopedia of Goddesses: Knowledge

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Goddess Yaoji

Yaoji is a Chinese mountain deity.

Yaoji is a love sorceress who specializes in love spells.

She is revered in the same way that rocks and mountain peaks are revered.

She has control over dreams and uses visions to communicate with her followers.

Yaoji, who is revered for her knowledge, teaches the magical characteristics of plants and how to make magical brews.

~Kiran Atma

Goddess Vac

Vac: The goddess of speech in Hindu mythology.

Vac, the patroness of writers, teachers, and artists, is the ruler of sound and the spoken word.

She is the origin of all creation, the sacred word that began all existence and all knowledge on the planet.

Vac represents the manifestation of ideas into reality.

For more refer to my list Of Hindu, Buddhist, And Jain (South Asian) Goddesses From India, Nepal, And Tibet.

~Kiran Atma

Goddess Hel

Hel is the Norse goddess of the underworld.

In her underworld realm of Helheim, Hel rules the souls of the wicked and those who die of disease or old age.

She is the black hag who straddles the threshold between life and death, blurring the barrier between realms.

Odin is given his twin ravens of prophecy and knowledge by Hel.

Hel, the patroness of Nordic shamans, is represented as half-alive and half-dead, with decaying flesh on her lower body and a living woman's face and torso.

Goddess Frigga

Mother goddess of the Norse people.

Frigga is the goddess of marriage and domestic order, as well as the arts of the home.

She is the patroness of matronesses and protects women and children.

Frigga is a seer who sees into all realms of reality and has the abilities of divination and prophesy; yet, she keeps her knowledge to herself.

She is the gods' ruler as Odin's wife.

~Kiran Atma

References And Further Reading

Stuff, W.A.S., Sokkvabekkr and Saga: Beneath the Waves.

Koefoed, L.B., 2000. Mythological narratives. California State University, Long Beach.

Langley, A.L., 1948. Mistletoe Meanings. The Phi Delta Kappan, 30(4), pp.99-100.

Rudolph, R., 2012. The dragonflies of the Germanic goddess Frigga. Odonatologica, 41(3), pp.251-266.

Rumpf, M., Hellenberg, A. and Tucker, E., 1977. The legends of Bertha in Switzerland. Journal of the Folklore Institute, 14(3), pp.181-195.

Fennell, J.H., 1841. CHRISTMAS, AND ITS DECORATIVE PLANTS. The Mirror monthly magazine, (1091), pp.405-408.

Owen, T.C., Aksnes, K., Beebe, R., Blue, J., Brahic, A., Burba, G.A., Smith, B.A. and Tejfel, V.G., 2006. Titan: Nomenclature system and the very first names for one more world. Lunar Planet. Sci, 37, pp.1082-1083.