The girl who did not come back from the sea. Fishermen, crews, and a palanquin that runs. This is a living maritime cult, not a museum label.
Njord
Cult sites: No named temple survives in the sources; later tradition places his cult in coastal Norway and Sweden, especially among people who lived by ships and trade., The Ynglinga saga makes him a king at Noatun after the Aesir-Vanir peace, which is a way of saying his house was a harbor..
Festivals: Seafaring offerings, Harvest and plenty (Vanir cult).
Njord is asked for wind, wealth, and a safe voyage. Snorri says he rules the motion of wind and sea and the gifts of land and livestock. Evidence for a fixed festival calendar is thin; what we have is a sea god of plenty, not a temple inventory.
Mazu
Chinese Pantheon
The goddess of the sea and protector of sailors, fishermen, and all who travel by water. Originally a human girl from Fujian Province with miraculous powers, she was deified after her death.
Lin Moniang was born on Meizhou Island in 960 CE and displayed miraculous powers from childhood. After saving many sailors from storms through spiritual intervention, she ascended to heaven and was deified as Mazu, protector of all who travel by sea.
Mazu is the most important sea goddess in Chinese coastal religion, worshipped by millions of fishermen, sailors, and coastal communities across East and Southeast Asia. Her origins as a historical woman from Fujian Province make her one of the most relatable deities in the Chinese pantheon.
Vanir god of the sea, seafaring wealth, trade, and calm waters. Father of Freyja and Freyr.
Njord is one of the Vanir, the divine clan associated with prosperity, fertility, and the wealth that comes from land and sea. After the Aesir-Vanir War, he came to live among the Aesir as part of the hostage exchange that secured peace between the two groups of gods. In later Norse tradition he is remembered as a patron of sailors, merchants, fishermen, and all who rely on favorable winds and safe coasts.
Njord belongs to the Vanir, the gods of wealth, harbor weather, and the kind of luck that arrives with a full hold. After the Aesir-Vanir war he was sent to Asgard as a hostage, together with his children Freyja and Freyr, to keep the peace. The arrangement stuck: he lives among the Aesir at **Noatun**, the enclosure of ships, but his cult still smells of salt and trade rather than of Odin's hall.