Cult of Gods

Sif

Norse tradition. See the whole pantheon.

Domains
golden hair, grain (by later reading)
Partner
Thor
Odin rides to Hel, W. G. Collingwood, after the Poetic Edda.
Odin rides to Hel, W. G. Collingwood, after the Poetic Edda.

Key myth

Thor's wife. Loki cut off her hair for mischief; forced by Thor to repair it, he had dwarfs forge hair of real gold, and in the same errand won Mjölnir for the gods.

Where sources differ or caution applies. The grain reading is a modern interpretation; the sources themselves say little.

Primary sources

  • Skáldskaparmál
  • Lokasenna 54 (Loki boasts of Sif)

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 Sif: earth, harvest and fertility. This is overlap in one area only.

Egyptian

Geb

earth

Egyptian

Osiris

afterlife, resurrection, fertility of the flood

Egyptian

Sobek

Nile, fertility, kingship

Mesopotamian

Ninlil

grain, wind (as Enlil's wife)

Mesopotamian

Ninurta

war, farming, storms

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