The crime that finally turned the gods against Loki was his role in the death of Balder, however this event is also one of the great puzzles of northern mythology. Why were Odin and Frigg, with all their knowledge, not able to prevent the disaster?...
Frau Holle is connected to springs, wells and lakes, where she lives in a land on the bottom of the water. She is also connected with the fog. Holle can be seen as a bright shape drifting in the fog, and her fog maidens are...
If you try to unravel the different levels, connections, storylines and hidden meanings in Maier files, getting into the world of Disir and ancient European goddesses can be very helpful. An interesting read is the original work written by Alice Karlsdóttir a leading expert on...
We already mentioned Holle. But there are still some extra tidbits about Frau Holda, Holle. The benevolent Holle from central Europe reigns the sky and the weather—when she shakes out her feather bed it snows, when she does her washing it rains, the fluffy white...
Who was Tannhauser? During the era when Walther von der Vogelweide, Wolfram von Eschenbach and numerous other minstrels, were exalting Love, the month of May, the Grail and the Rose Garden, or even the Mountain of Venus in their poems — and the people preferred these...
Samhain is a time to journey to the dark side. Now the days shorten quickly, we journey to the shadowlands to commune with the ghosts of our past, visit what has died in us, express our longing and loss, and through that expression find healing...
Tidbits on the tale of Holle's kitten. There is a mountain in Hessen, Germany called the Meissner where one still can find traces of the central German goddess Holle, Holda or Helja. It's a place where her cult seems to have survived for a long time....
According to the Roman historian Tacitus, the ancient Germanics thought of their women as "goddesses". Especially holy were the spirits of female ancestors ...
Holle: a nearly absolute power? A backstory Some tidbits about Holle Hella, Hel, known to all Germanic peoples, including the Goths as Hellarunester. A Gothic word for "witch" was Haljoruna. The name itself stems from a root meaning "to hide". The word Hellirunar describes people who ‘rune’...
The third episode of Maier Files, titled Cargo S-44, is now available as PDF e-book ! Get it here: WEB-shop! Cargo S-44, episode 3, is the new stunning follow-up to the Prequel and episode 2, Awakening, of the Maier Files series. Find out what happened to Lena...