Fylgja
According to Governed Boyer, " fylgja indicates the placenta, the membranes which follow the expulsion of the newborn, and, symbolically, the guardian figure, the spirit, the double which follows a man and even a clan".
In a first direction, older, the fylgja indicates the heart, it me which émancipe of its body envelope. It is about a spiritual unfolding, even if it takes animal form. The individual can see it (in dream or in a modified state of conscience) although it is of bad omen to see his propre.
In a second direction, most frequent, the woman fylgja , the fylgjukona , which is that protects the individual, approaching our angel-guard, but also a family. She is related to the worship of the Dises, evoking the vedic Dhisanas , goddesses of the fertility and fruitfulness, but also of the destiny. The destiny is an omnipresent notion in the world of the former Scandinavians, which is found in the language: " belief in the power and the clean capacity of success which were to you conférées" , " law fixed at the avance" , " equipment which one enjoys as of the naissance" , " leaves fallen to a individu" , " way in which intended was created-façonnée" …
According to Claude Lecouteux the fylgja " is to some extent the double of the individual, comparable with the Egyptian Ka and with the Greek eidolon , a kind of guardian angel taking the shape of a female entity or an animal protecting the family or the person whom it has adoptée". It is a guardian being whose function is protection and the prediction. It appears with alive during the dreams. Apart from those, the vision of the fylgja means death. If it takes leave of protected sound, this one also dies. A man can also have several guardian spirits. Important feature, the fylgja does not disappear with that to which it stuck, testifying to its independence compared to the human being.
According to Ernst Ludwig Rochholz, which is particularly interested in the guardian angel, belief that the fylgja leaves that which sees it and also the life removes to him is in connection with the tales of Mélusine , of the white Lady , Orphée .
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