Cult of Gods

Rán

Norse tradition. See the whole pantheon.

Domains
drowning, the sea's net
Symbols and attributes
A net to catch sailors
Partner
Ægir
Odin rides to Hel, W. G. Collingwood, after the Poetic Edda.
Odin rides to Hel, W. G. Collingwood, after the Poetic Edda.

Key myth

Ægir's wife, who gathers the drowned in her net. Snorri says people took gold with them when at sea in case they met her.

Primary sources

  • Skáldskaparmál
  • Gylfaginning

All sources for the Norse pantheon

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.

YmirFriggBúriNjörðrÆgirRánSólBorrBestlaFreyrFreyjaSifLokiSigynHeimdallrTýrOdinHelThorBaldr

More traditions

Papyrus of Ani, British Museum (New Kingdom), a Book of the Dead.EgyptianA chaos monster and a sun god, drawn by L. Gruner for A. H. Layard's Monuments of Nineveh.MesopotamianVishvarupa Vishnu, Kashmir or Himachal, in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art collection.HinduFolio 309r of the Book of Kells (Trinity College Dublin), c. 800.Celtic (Irish)

Elsewhere in the world

Deities in other traditions who share a theme with Rán: sea and waters, death and the underworld. This is overlap in one area only.

Egyptian

Nun

the primeval waters

Egyptian

Nut

sky, stars

Egyptian

Osiris

afterlife, resurrection, fertility of the flood

Egyptian

Isis

magic, protection, motherhood

Egyptian

Nephthys

mourning, protection of the dead

Egyptian

Anubis

embalming, guide of the dead

Egyptian

Sobek

Nile, fertility, kingship

Mesopotamian

Nammu

the primeval sea, mother of the gods

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