[ **up: [[Deities]] | [[Fate]] | [[Fortune]]** ] --- # Destiny goddesses ## Europe The spinning goddess of [[destiny]] may have distant [[Indo-European]] roots.[^1] ### Germanic The [[Matronae]] wove your [[Wyrd]].[^2] [^1]: Max Dashu, [[Dashu. 'Witches and Pagans_ Women in European Folk Religion, 700-1100', 2017.|Witches and Pagans: Women in European Folk Religion, 700-1100]] (Richmond, CA: Veleda Press, 2017), p. 11. [^2]: Max Dashu, [[Dashu. 'Witches and Pagans_ Women in European Folk Religion, 700-1100', 2017.|Witches and Pagans: Women in European Folk Religion, 700-1100]] (Richmond, CA: Veleda Press, 2017), Chapter 1.