#hulda

[fioweress]

i got them out of gilead

[loriresources]

Hulda, you can be so thick sometimes.

The Testaments. Season 1, episode 05

[spaceediasporaa]

I had my driver’s lesson the other day and I couldn’t stop thinking about what kind of drivers the girls would be if they ever got out of gilead

like I can imagine agnes is a perfect driver, she drives slow sometimes but you will never feel unsafe in her car. becka speeds a TON and often curses out other drivers, but overall she’s fairly safe. hulda is an anxious driver, but with practice she gets better. shu though… shu is a terrible driver, I know this in my heart. I’m talking her insurance is sky high kind of bad driver, and sometimes daisy has to pry the keys out of her hands because even though she’s horrible she adores driving.

[wlwarhammer]

The contrast in episode 6 between the flashback events and the current events, especially in the lighting and acting, especially when it cuts between Hulda’s administration and the nighttime stadium scene is so Jarring. I was scared that they would sanitise gilead because of this trend in the last couple years of shows being scared of presenting dark subjects seriously/realistically. But they’ve used the contrast between the sheltering of these girls and the violence enacted on the generation before them and everyone outside of their bubble to show the many different ways that gilead exerts controls over people.

[julyzaas-writing-blog]

okay because the names kinda interested me and i love biblical references

so Shunammite is named after the Woman of Shunem in 2 Kings chapter 8 who is a very hospitable childless woman who goes as far as to convince her husband to make a room for the prophet Elisha on their roof and God rewards her with a son who Elisha later ressurects.

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and Jehosheba is the stepdaughter to tyrannical Queen Athaliah who murdered every single male heir between her and the throne of Judah after her son died. Jehosheba managed to save one of her nephews and hid him in the Temple with the help of her husband the High Priest for seven years.

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edit because i just saw that Hulda is also a biblical figure.

Hulda named after the prophetess Huldah who prophesized the destruction of Judah that would come after King Josiah's death because the kings before and after him turned against God.

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now Margaret Atwood probably named them like this to mean something, but i have only read the plot summary of the book. Anyways, the Shunammite recieved what she wanted after graciously hosting Elisha and the plot summary says Shu gets her period and marries a widowed Judd (who kills his wives) so maybe she will get hers in the next two episodes or even season 2.

now Jehosheba might help hide someone with the help of her husband(?) or maybe her Marthas.

we know very little of Huldah and they describe her husband more than her which fits Hulda's character. but seeing Hulda's arc is to expose Dr. Groves' abuse and be the canary in the goldmine for Agnes and what causes the destruction of false illusion of peace and safety for the girls and possibly be one of the pieces to bring about the fall of Gilead, kinda like Huldah heralding the destruction of Judah by telling Josiah when it will happen.

but tv writers as of late have been slacking off and falling victim to their own hubris in a lot of media and this could mean nothing and Margaret Atwood could be as consulted as GRRM was in House of the Dragon s2.

[verysadlesbian]

I'm currently watching the season finale of The Testaments and I had to pause in the middle, because I was crying too much since the beginning of the episode. Becka singing to soothe herself broke my damn heart, bro, that's my baby 😭😭😭😭 honestly, I said this before and I'll say it again, I'm feeling so maternal over all these girls, they're my daughters fr.

[tamfana]

Frau Holle

Frau Holle is perhaps one of the most documented and recognizable Continental Deities. There's a lot to cover so you're going to appreciate the Read More link here, but for the uninitiated Frau Holle is in charge of:

The weather, the fae, the wild hunt, death, the milling of souls, beauty, babies, the home, spinning, chores, labor, and a slew of animals like cows and sheep.

In her most popular myth from the Grimm Brothers, she's known for guiding a girl, Marie, through the otherworld. She asks her to do some chores, of which includes shaking out a feather bed to create snow back on earth. Marie is sent home to a shower of gold and riches for her hard work. In some editions of the story, there is another girl who is lazy, and at the end of her journey in the otherworld she's dumped in pitch (sewage).

This is only one of the stories that cements her place as a goddess of weather. Her hair is sunbeams, her laundry is rain, her loom is the rainbow, she breathes the wind, her hearth creates the fog, and her sweeping causes dusty storms.

Her place as a psychopomp- reaping the souls of her dead during the Wild Hunt, causes another story of hers. As she mills the souls, separating their pieces, freeing the consciousness and reusing the soul parts of the ancestors, she also assigns jobs to the dead. In Germanic Paganism, death is not stagnant- the only few who live a lazy afterlife are those who go to Valhof. Her favorite children, her closest devotees, are chosen to cut stars out from the sky. Some hold ladders, some cut and trim with scissors, some sweep the frayed fabric.

The etymology of her name means either "loud, cheery", or "sweet". This is backed up by two things; 1, shes quite a nice lady, and 2, her month is the windy March when her breaths howl through the nights.

In another Myth, Emperor Louis the Pious (Charlemagne's son) Was hunting a white buck when he lost his troupe. He came across a grove where a wild rose bush bloomed. He knelt and prayed to the Virgin Mary that he’d find rescue, and fell asleep doing so. When he woke, there was snow all around him, despite the trees being lush and green. He took this as a sign that Frau Holle was blessing him to build a church to the Virgin Mary there, and the rose bush still stands today as it grows against the chapel in Hildesheim.

Her name bears some resemblance to the Nordic 'huldr', which relates to forest nymphs with cow tails and great beauty, which they hide with veils. Frau Holle is said to be very beautiful, her chief animal is the cow, and her maiden form is typically shown with a veil. However, there is no proof that these two are the same. I take it into consideration because Frau Holle is also a queen of the Fae and Wild Spirits.

Her sacred plant is the elderflower/elderberry bush. It's because of this that Urglaawers and some Hexe are forbidden from cutting the branches of it in fear of offending her. (and because it would rid itself of a very medicinal plant). In fact, the name for Elderflower Bush in German is 'Holunderblute'. Elderberry is just "holunder.'

The colors Blue, White, Red and Gold are chief to her. Blue and White for the snow, Red and Gold for apples (which are a preferred fruit for her, if you wish to give her an offering.) Her feast day is December 24, or Modranicht (mothers night in Germany), but she's also celebrated on Walpurgisnacht or Hexennacht, April 30 evening and morning May 1st, when she takes off for the wild hunt for the Summer. She comes back to stay for the wintertime after Alleleweizel, which is Okt 30-Nov 12.

[your-fave-is-neurospicy]

hulda from the testaments is autistic (implied)

submitted by @strigiform-titan