The Goddess And The Star

The goddess Niaerdh watches over her sea and:

"Upon her brow shone the morning star."
-Poul Anderson, "Star of the Sea" IN Anderson, Time Patrol (Riverdale, NY, 2010), pp. 467-640 AT I, p. 467.

The goddess Naerdha of the Wanes goes to war against the invading Anses and:

"Upon her brow a star burned white as the fire's heart."
-op. cit., II, p. 557.

Gundicar, a big man with a beer belly, chats to two Time Patrol agents:

"'I think this Nerha goddess of [Veleda's] is of the Wanes, not the Anses...unless it's another name for Mother Fricka. And yet...they say Nerha is as terrible in her rage as Tiw himself....There's something about a star and the sea, but I know nothing of that, we're inlanders here....'"
-op. cit., 10, pp. 551-552.

Gutherius, a sea trader, bows low to the evening and morning stars because:

"...they too are Nehalennia's."
-op. cit.,  III, p. 628.

An Atlantic sailor prays:

"Pure as yourself, your evenstar shines above the sunset...
"Ave Stella Maris!"
-op. cit., IV, p. 640.

Here is a mythological progression:

a goddess of nature;
a goddess of war;
a man relating what he has heard about a new goddess;
a peaceful sea trader worshiping the goddess;
a sailor praying to "Mary, mother of God..." (p. 639)