This god is also known as Freyr and is the last deity I will cover in this way. This article will try to explain Ingwaz Freyr not just as a god with a large phallos but also a deity with complex properties. Freyr is the son of Njord the sea god as previously mentioned is a god of fun and adventure. Freyr however is a complex god and I will not being using any runic or meditative process to explore this god instead I will use the Poetic Edda. The Poetic Edda is not a perfect example of how the god was perceived by ancient peoples nor is it a perfect way to understand the personal followers gnosis. The Poetic Edda is simply a good guide to understand the god in a mythical way. I will divide with article in two. The first is the myth the second is my thoughts.
Myth:
The god Freyr is sometime known as king of the swedes and in the mythos he was given a golden boar by the dwarves when the god of fire and trikes Loki through his guile precured several gifts to the gods.
The second myth in the Poetic Edda is when Freyr decided to give up his sword for love.
The third is Ragnarök when Freyr is killed by Sutor the fire giant.
The mythos points and hint that Fryer is a god of kingship and that many kings would attribute their power to him as a father. The myth of Fryer giving up his sword for love hints that Fryer is the god of love and the last myth shows that Fryer is a god who dies in the end of the realms.
What I think:
Freyr means lord which implies royalty but the royalty is not a royalty of a physical kind but a spiritual one. In the search for deity one slowly becomes a lord and has sovereignty over he's or her own religion and soul. To find Freyr is really to find oneself and to perceive oneself as their own teacher and guide. When one searches for the deity one has to dig into parts of one owns philosophy, religious thought, and how one treats others. In the twisted path of the seeker eventually one will find the physical deity but also come across the reflective surface of self. When one searches for the lord of the pagan world we come across a mirror which we must use to find ourselves. For one cannot know the divine unless one has looked hard at oneself understanding all good and flaw that one possesses. As many may look into the mirror and see a flaw they will deny there flaws. The wise one looks, understand and more importantly changes in order to overcome the flawed characteristics. With this in mind Freyr can mean something else instead of lord implying royalty but lord implying the one who has overcome. The sword of Freyr which could fight on it's own and attain victory for the wielder is given up for love. This story can mean that the sacrifice of that which gives us power can lead to something greater. In other words to show humility in order to obtain divine is almost necessary on a path of a sage. Although Freyr's name is means to be exalted rarely is the god exalted. What this means is that in our search when one achieves one must not expect exaltation from ones peers.
Freyr is something that one becomes on their path just as time and study makes the sage so does the will to search, change and sacrifice lead to lordship.
