Freyja

Norse tradition. See the whole pantheon.

Domains: love, desire, magic (seiðr), half the battle-dead
Symbols and attributes: Necklace Brísingamen, cat-drawn chariot, falcon cloak
Parents (per the sources used): Njörðr

Odin rides to Hel, W. G. Collingwood, after the Poetic Edda.

Key myth

Grímnismál says Freyja chooses half of the slain for her hall Fólkvangr, while Odin takes the other half. She taught the gods seiðr, a form of magic, according to Ynglinga saga.

Primary sources

Grímnismál 14
Ynglinga saga 4
Þrymskviða

All sources for the Norse pantheon

Lineage in the sources used: Njörðr.

Place in the family graph

Choose a deity to see where it comes from. Dashed lines are links the sources describe that are not parent and child.

More traditions

Papyrus of Ani, British Museum (New Kingdom), a Book of the Dead.

Elsewhere in the world

Deities in other traditions who share a theme with Freyja: love, desire and fertility, war and fighting, death and the underworld. This is overlap in one area only.

Egyptian