Bil
deity sky Norse single tradition · 4
Bil is a goddess in Norse mythology whose status as a deity is stated alongside Sól in the Prose Edda.
↻ synthesized from 4 sources
When
- First attested
- 1000 CE
- Attested period
- 1000 – 1300
- Historical notes
- Documented in the Prose Edda (13th century) as a goddess.
Relationships
- co occurs with
- Mánagarm, Man in the Moon, Bêlit, Malak-bel, Zeus Belus, Sol, Mundilfari, Sköll, Hati Hróðvitnisson, Dís, Sinthgunt, Bel
- serves
- Máni
- allied with
- Hjúki
- syncretized with
- Bilwis
- sibling of
- Hjúki
Mentioned by
Sources
wikipedia (4)
Source passages
“In chapter 35, Sól's status as a goddess is stated by High, along with Bil.”
#16179 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“The village of Bilsby in Lincolnshire, England (from which the English surname Billing derives) has been proposed as having been named after Bil.”
#18362 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“account of Máni, and Hjúki and Bil (featuring, as Simek states, "a man with a pole and a woman with a bushel") found in chapter 11 of Gylfaginning with modern accounts of the Man in the Moon”
#19385 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“In Mandaean cosmology, the name for Jupiter is Bil (ࡁࡉࡋ), which is derived from the name Bel.”
#25855 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001