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The contribution of Norse mythology in modern
pop culture is undeniable.
All the way from Lord Of The Rings, Marvel
comics, Dungeons & Dragons to Game Of Thrones,
The Witcher.
There are countless movies, games and tv shows
that draw influence from Norse mythology and
culture.
Even the English that we speak today gets
it's influence from old Norse folk.
So today, we are going back to the very beginning
of Norse mythology and exploring the creation
of the universe,
In the beginning, there was only the twin
realms of ice and fire, Nifleheim and Muspelheim,
and these two realms were seperated by the
darkness and silence of the
Ginnugngagap, the great emptiness.
But the fire and ice would spread outwards
from their own realms, and reach Ginnungagap
and after an eternity, the ice and fire were
thus united.
The fire melted the ice, and from underneath
the ice an enormous being emerged.
This being, was Ymir, the very first giant.
And when the giant Ymir slept,
more giants emerged from his legs and from
the sweat of his armpits.
Interestingly enough, a cow also emerged as
the ice continued to melt.
Audhumla, she was called.
She nourished Ymir with her milk and she sustained
herself
by licking the salt from the ice.
The salt she licked eventually uncovered Buri,
who was the ancestor of the Asgardian gods.
Buri had a son named Bor, who married
the giantess Bestla and together they gave
birth to three half-god, half-giant sons,
Odin, Vili and Ve.
The three brothers slew Ymir and Ymir's blood
drowned all the frost giants except two, Bergelmir
and his wife.
They built a boat and escaped and became the
ancestors
of all frost giants.
Odin, Vili and Ve then dragged the body of
Ymir to the centre of Ginnungagap and there
they used Ymir's dead body to create the universe.
His blood became the oceans.
His flesh formed the land.
His bones were used to make mountains and
rocks were made out of his teeth.
And from his rotten
flesh, dwarves would come out like maggots.
Ymir's skull became the sky as it was placed
above the Earth and Odin sent 4 dwarves named
North, South, East and West to the four-corners
of the Earth to hold up the sky.
The brothers gathered embers and flames from
Muspelheim and used them to decorate the
sky, thus creating the stars and the remains
of Ymirs brain became the clouds.
Then Odin and his brothers went on to create
humans.
They created the first couple
using tree trunks.
They named them Ash and Elm.
Odin gave them life whereas Ve provided them
with speech, hearing and eyesight.
And Vili gifted them with
intelligence and compassion.
Midgard would become their homeland.
Odin and his brothers then built Asgard, the
city of the gods.
Odin became the ruler of Asgard and
married frigg.
Far away from Asgard and Midgard, The frost
giants or Jotun dwelt in the realm of Jottunheim.
All the realms were linked together by the
rainbow bridge, otherwise
called the Bifrost. which is guarded by the
shining god Heimdall.
Heimdall or Heimdallur, is the watchmen of
the gods.
He has unnatural eyesight and hearing and
could see in both night and day.
Back on Earth, a girl named Sol and her brother
named Mani were so fair and beautiful that
the gods gifted them with chariots and with
them they would circle
the Earth.
They are known to the humans as the sun and
the moon.
There are a total of nine worlds, all inter-connected
though the great ash tree called Ygdrasil.
The 9 worlds are thus,
1.
Asgard, the home of the Aesir gods
2.
Vanaheim, the home of Vanir gods
3.
Midgard the world of humans
4.
Alfheim, the world of elves
5.
Nidavellir, the world of dwarves
6.
Jottunheim, the realm of giants
7.
Hel, the realm of the dishonorable dead ruled
by the goddess, Hela
And the realms of elemental ice and fire
8.
Niffleheim & 9.
Muspelheim
The Ygdrasil tree has three roots.
Hvergelmir, the spring from which all primordial
rivers flow, is located right beneath one
of the roots of Ygdrasil.
Another root is located above the Well Of
Wisdom, which belongs to Mimir, the god of
wisdom.
And the third root is located right above
The Well Of Fate, and near this well live
three women, three weavers of time, they are
called The Norns, and they
keep all account the past, present.....and
even the future.
So this was the origin of the all things according
to Norse Mythology.
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