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Anglo-Saxon deities are in general poorly attested, and much is inferred about the religion of the Anglo-Saxons from what is known of other Germanic peoples' religions. The written record from the period between the Anglo-Saxon invasion of the British Isles to the Christianisation of the Anglo-Saxons is very sparse, and most of what is known comes from later Christian writers such as Bede ...
Aristaeus, god of bee-keeping, cheese-making, herding, olive-growing and hunting; Artemis, goddess of the hunt, wild animals and the moon; Heracles Kynagidas; Pan, in addition to being a god of the wild and shepherds, was also a hunting god. Persephone, the goddess of life and death, also known for being Hades' wife
The gods of the polytheistic religion practiced in England during the Old English period, before the conversion to Christianity. Some of these gods survived into the folklore of the modern era such as Woden , Weyland and Wade , though many others were forgotten.
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A scene from one of the Merseburg Incantations: gods Wodan and Balder stand before the goddesses Sunna, Sinthgunt, Volla, and Friia (Emil Doepler, 1905). In Germanic paganism, the indigenous religion of the ancient Germanic peoples who inhabit Germanic Europe, there were a number of different gods and goddesses.
Nodens (Nodons) - a Brittonic god of healing, dogs and hunting; Ogmios - a Gallic god of eloquence; Paronnus - a god known from a lone inscription at Brixia [16] Rudiobus - a Gallic god in Loiret; Smertrios - a Gallic god; Souolibrogenos - a Galatian god [22] Sucellus (Sucellos) - a Gallic and Brittonic god of agriculture and wine; Tavianos - a ...
One such reference can be found in the part of the manuscript known as The Wonders of the East, in which they are called "healfhundingas" or "half-dogs." Also, in Anglo-Saxon England, the Old English word wulfes heafod ("wolf's head") was a technical term for an outlaw, who could be killed as if he were a wolf
Male deities depicted as dogs or whose myths and iconography are associated with dogs. ... (7 C, 14 P) Pages in category "Dog gods"