The Norse Gods Created a World from Severed Limbs In some mythology, gods go through great efforts, sometimes trials, to create the cosmos. Well, inNorse mythology, it cost one god just a bit more. Before the cosmos existed, there was a god giant named Ymir. When Odin was born, he an...
This is true of many of the studies of Norse cosmogony, theogony, andanthropogony, which have sought to determine what ideas about creationcirculated and how they were used and valued in pre-Christian times.2While1 Jenny Strauss Clay,Hesiod’s Cosmos(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003)...
themilkywaymythologyandstoriesofcreation银河神话与创造的故事 系统标签: milkywaycreationmythology银河stories THEMILKYWAYMYTHOLOGYANDTHESTORIESOFCREATION September29,2011 ByAuthor IvarNielsen,NaturalPhilosopher,Denmark Contact:nativecosmos(at)gmail Website:http://.native-science.net CONTENTS 1)Abstract 2)TheMilkyWa...
Panpsychism offers …[a] value-laden picture of the cosmos and roots humanity deep within our native universe…” [37] it “promises a satisfying account of the human mind within a unified conception of nature” [36]. Perhaps it is too simple to suggest that adopting an animistic ...
Even though the world parents are depicted and described as in sexual embrace, no activity is taking place. They appear asquiescentand inert. Thechthonic(underworld) structure of the earth as latent potentiality tends to dominate the union. The parents are often unaware that they have offspring,...
one part forming the heavens, the other, the earth. In a West African myth, one of the twins from the cosmic egg must be sacrificed to bring about a habitable world. In the NorseProseEdda, the cosmos is formed from the body of the dismembered greatYmir, and, in theRigveda, the oldes...
Just recently, I began learning more about Norse mythology and Yggdrasil; the world tree which has branches in all aspects of the cosmos. But, as you can see, there are many influences from which to draw. Whether it is a more traditional deity or alien beings with powers beyond our imagin...