LIBRA

LIBRA MEANING

• Libras are the "balance mechanism [that] wants to stay even."
• Libras value balance and order

Wealtheow becomes the sacrificial balance between the Scyldings and the Helmings, just as the Libra represents balance and order. She brings order between the two feuding tribes.

PHILOSOPHY

• Christ's sacrifice on the cross was the ultimate sacrifice for our sins.
• Wealtheow was the sacrifice for the present conflict.
• Just as Christ was sacrificed for the embetterment of our souls and lives...
• Wealtheow was sacrificed for the embetterment of their behavior in...
• in regards to fighting.

Self Sacrificial Love:
Hygmod offers his sister and renames her "Wealtheow, or holy servant of common good." Wealtheow is willing to give herself to Hrothgar, even though she is leaving her family and people behind. She knowingly does this if only to stop the useless feuding between the two peoples.

Self Sacrificial Love cont:
Jesus sacrificed Himself to save the souls of all people. "For God so loved the world that He gave his only Son and that whoever believes shall not perish, but shall have eternal life." John 3:16