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“Beiwe The Goddess of The Sun”
Winter solstice has also been known to celebrate Earth’s regeneration or rebirth, and the Scandinavian Goddess, Beiwe, is associated with health and fertility. 

The Sami people turn to her to help restore health. The Sami people are indigenous to Norway, Sweden, Finland and north west Russia, the part that used to be known as Lappland. 

Sami myths are closely connected to nature – they tell of gods of rain and rock, goddesses of sun and moon, and each myth reveals their own intimate connection to the natural world and the numinous. 
 
In Scandinavia, at the winter solstice, a white female reindeer was sacrificed in her honour so that she would return to the world and put an end to winter. 

It was believed that Beiwe travelled through the night sky in a structure made of reindeer bones with her daughter, Beiwe-Neia, to bring back the greenery on which the reindeer fed. For this reason she was worshipped during this time of year.