Vanir

[ingemarn2000]

The Vanir were fertility and vegetation divinities closer to the humans than the Aesir who were heaven gods. Still some of the Vanir had functions similar to the  Aesir. They definitely not were Germanic or Celtic tribes and they existed already at least 1400 BCE in this combination in the Middle East. Both Greeks, Romans, Celts  and Germanics have been influenced by this old religion but the Gods, however, got other names.

Ingemar



--- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, Abrigon <abrigon at ...> wrote:
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> For me, I see the Vanir as another element, much like how some tribes were
> a mixture of Germanic and Celtic elements. To me the Aesir was the Germanic
> or one Germanic group, and the Vanir was another element, either Germanic
> or Celtic or something else?
> 
> Since many of the Vanir seem to have been more agricultural and a different
> way of things such as war. While the Aesir seemed more into hunting and
> war.. At least in the Norse and like areas..
> 
> Got to remember the Germanic tribes as we know them was several groups,
> tribes and such, we call them Eastern, Western and Northern, yes? They had
> much in common but .. each had experienced different things, such as the
> Eastern, such as the Goths, had dealt with the Huns and like plains people,
> but also Greek and Celtic but also Latin and like peoples..
> 
> Wasn't the Tuetones (sp) who was a mixture of Celtic and mostly Germanic
> elements?
> 
> What ever happened to Tiwaz and like dieties? Replaces by Odim\n/Woden,
> while Tyr replaced ...
> 
> I know in Celtic myths, many of the dieties and ideals you see in other
> related peoples, such as the Fomor - Titans for example, similar? not
> always direct but ..
> 
> Mike
> Alaska
> 
> 
> On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 12:31 AM, thomasruhm <thomas at ...> wrote:
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> > Hello,
> >
> > because this forum is about culture too you might know about such things.
> > I was wondering how the Vanir appear in modern stories, comic books,
> > neo-paganism, poetry and everything beside the Edda. Certainly I know it is
> > not strictly about the goths but still they are a germanic tribe.
> >
> > Yours
> > Thomas
> >
> >
> >
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