";s:4:"text";s:4653:"Odin gave her dominion over the nine worlds of the dead that make up Helheim. She is the respected older woman or grand parent at the heart of family who enjoys life and sharing her experience.Unfortunately the word Crone or Hag often has negative connotations as many wise woman and midwives were persecuted as witches in the middle ages.Shadow Crone is the bitter, old woman who has failed to learn from her life. Seers and shamans would journey to these realms to consult with them.Other spellings of her name include Hell, Hel, Hela and Halja. These are the Goddesses of creation and destruction.The fire goddesses represent the element of fire in its many different forms; from the spectacular volcano Goddesses to the more benign Goddesses of the hearth fire.This Goddess is Queen of the underworld and despite her banishment the other Gods have to respect her judgement as shown when she refuses to let Baldr return to the living.Please follow this link to the Archetypes page to discover which other Goddess Archetypes resonate with you. Hela is a Norse goddess who rules over the realm of Helheim, the Norse underworld. Other associations with this Archetype include: compassion, transformation, healing and bawdiness death and endings. Instead it represents the nine different stages of the transition the soul goes through after death. Her name means one who covers up.Her hall was called Elivdnir (Sleet Cold).She represents the Crone aspect of the Goddess in the Pagan tradition.Hella is often depicted as being one half beautiful woman and the other side a blue black rotting corpse.She is sometimes depicted with bones growing on the outside of her body.She therefore represents both the ugliness and peacefulness of death.In the Pagan tradition the Goddess is often split into three to depict the different stages of a woman's life: mother, maiden and Crone.The Crone represents the wise old woman whose child bearing days are behind her. Her hall was called Elivdnir (Sleet Cold). Hela is usually shown as one part beautiful woman and one part skeleton or rotting corpse, because She is not interested in hiding or euphemizing the true nature of Death. When evil Loki was set to take over Kid Loki's body, Kid Loki had Hela send this second Leah back in time to hide her from his counterpart. Here the Goddess decides the fate of all the people who have died from sickness and old age.Helheim is not the Hell of the Christian world, where the sins of man are punished. it has been demonstrated that without her cloak, Hela's life force is insufficient to maintain her usual physical strength. The three Asgardian goddesses of fate, the Norns, are said to have warned the Asgardian gods that Hela would prove to be a great danger to them. Hel (also known as Hela), also referred to as the "Two-Faced Terror", is an ancient goddess of the dead within the Norse mythology who presides over the realm of the same name which serves a basis for the Christian concept of Hell, where she recieves a portion of the dead. Legend has it that Hela was born in this condition. Her name means one who covers up. Hel, or Hela, the Goddess of the Underworld, is the eldest child of Angrboda and Loki. As a result she becomes increasingly isolated and fearful.Hella is a Crone as she is Goddess of the underworld. Other spellings of her name include Hell, Hel, Hela and Halja. It has been theorized that without her cloak, Hela would be unable to leave the realms of the dead.