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Vǫlva
In Germanic paganism, a seeress is a woman said to have the ability to Divination, foretell future events and Magic (supernatural), perform sorcery. They are also referred to with many other names meaning "prophetess", "staff bearer" and "sorceress", and they are frequently called ''witches'' both in early sources and in modern scholarship. In Norse mythology the seeress is usually referred to as ''völva'' or ''vala''. Seeresses were an expression of the pre-Christian Shamanism, shamanic traditions of Europe, and they held an authoritative position in Early Germanic culture, Germanic society. Mentions of Germanic seeresses occur as early as the Roman era, when, for example, they at times led armed resistance against Roman rule and acted as envoys to Rome. After the Roman Era, seeresses occur in records among the North Germanic people, where they form a reoccurring motif in Norse mythology. Both the classical and the Norse accounts imply that they used wands, and describe them as si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Waluburg
Waluburg, 'magic staff protection' (), was a second century Seeress (Germanic), Germanic seeress (sorceress, priestess) from the Semnones, Semnonian tribe whose existence was revealed by the archaeological find of an ostracon, a pot shard of the type that was used by scribes to write receipts in Roman Egypt. The shard was discovered in the early twentieth century on the Egyptian island of Elephantine, near the Cataracts of the Nile, First Cataract of the Nile. Waluburg probably was taught her craft by a fellow tribeswoman, the Divination, seeress Ganna (seeress), Ganna, who succeeded Veleda as a leader of the Germanic resistance against the Romans and who is known to have had an audience with emperor Domitian. The reason how and why Waluburg ended up in southern Egypt at the First Cataract of the Nile is not known, but scholars speculate that she may have arrived while accompanying a warband of her own tribe in Roman service, that she was a war prisoner, or that she was a valua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
