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Hi! I just thought I could share different gods/goddesses from african, egyptian, greek, roman and norse mythology.
You can add a post as well if you want to write about one. Here I go!
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~Hel: Norse goddess of the Dead~

Hel is the daughter of Loki (norse god of trickery) Angrboda (Giantess). She also has two other siblings. She was born with her bones exposed on the outside of her body, one half of her body darker than the other, and looked very sickly and half dead.

So she was often avoided even in Asgard. That made things extremely difficult for Hel, because her appearance caused the other Gods to feel so uncomfortable that they avoided having anything to do with her. aww..Poor hel. Being seen as an oddity, being avoided, and having no friends was very difficult for Hel to deal with. She was extremely unhappy, and filled with loneliness. After much deliberation, Hel made an important decision. She went to Odin and explained to him how difficult her life was there, and then she asked for his permission to leave Asgard. Odin sympathized with Hel, so he granted her wish. Much more importantly, he also gave her the World of Niflheim, one of the Nine Worlds of Norse Mythology, to rule. He even went so far as to name that place after her! Calling it Helheim or Hel. That was how Hel became the Goddess of the Dead.

In return for giving her Niflheim, Odin gave Hel certain responsibilities that she had to carry out in that realm. He charged her with caring for the souls of people who had died from sickness or old age, and for the souls of any other people whose deaths had not occurred through violence or in battle.