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WHAT IS HERE IS ALL I SHALL POST FOR A LONG WHILE....SORRY. IF YOU'RE REALLY CURIOUS THEM 1. PM ME 2. EMAIL ME((ASK FOR IT!)) OR 3. IM ME ((ALSO ASK)) KAY KAY.
Very well. MY friend told me that if I wanted to spill out my mythology then I should post it here...in my journal. I specialize in Norse and am well versed in both Greek and Roman....currently I am studying Japanese mythology. I shall tell you people who read this what I know over time.....First I need to figure out where to begin....Greek, Roman or Norse....most likely Norse....Oh yea...If you find errors please inform me immediately!
Here we go...I will start with breif explanations and go from there......
* Æsir were the god and goddesses who live in Asgard. They are like the Greek gods who live up on Mount Olympious.
* Vanir, I am less familiar with them and know very little about them but I am trying to fix that, they are the second group of gods. They were like the Æsir.
* Norns..they were the Three Fates of the Norse.
* Valkyries were the female warriors of Odin. The selected who was worthy to go to Val Halla.
* Elves, we all know elves but I am not familiar with the Norse elves...will do research and post what I find.
* Jotuns, also known as Giants, they are well known to us but again I am unfamiliar with the Norse giants and will post what I find.
* Dwarves are also known to us but I am yet again unfamiliar with the dwarves mentioned in Norse Eddas...will post when I know
* Humans...thats us....they in habit Midgard.
* I will randomly post the beasts and places I learn about through my research.
Thats all for now....I'll give you guys more data when I organize it enough to type out....I'll start with the Æsir.
Oh yea....I am purely SELF TAUGHT... I was in one class that was supposed to expand my knowledge well guess what...I expanded THEIR knowledge...knew more myths then the damn teacher! So here is a link to a place we all know and love...Wikipedia...it has fairly good info on most of what I will tell you but I read a s**t load of BOOKS about all the lovely little myths I'll tell you...and I got into the Norse by reading a sweet little MANGA called Ragnarok....adn I will tell you later what Ragnarok is......mmmmk kay here it is Wikipedia - The Norse.
The Æsir were the main group of gods...they were led by Odin. Odin was one of the first gods. He was created from Ymir, the father of all.
Now Ymir was a giant and the worlds were created from his body. Namely his heart. I may be wrong in this haven't read a myth about him for over a year sweatdrop . But he is the father of all things basically.
Okay back to Odin. He was the god of magic and intelect basically. He even gave one of his eyes to gain more knowledge from Urds well...I think it was Urds well....yea. Odin is the son of Bestla and Borr, brother of Ve and Vili. He married Frigg and had a couple of sons. Sorry he left his eye at Mimir's Spring not Urd's Well...always get those two mixed up.....well considering I mentioned her I might as well tell you who she is seeing as how I told you enough about Odin....Well Urd is one of the three Norns who like I said before are the Norse equivalent of the Greek Fates. The other two Norns are Skuld and Verdandi.
Okay here are their roles.....Urd - Past, Verdandi - present and Skuld - future...they are all sisters and know EVERYTHING. They forsaw when the world would end and they know which of the gods will die and when. They were the ones who foretold ragnarok....
Now Ragnarok is the Norse Apocalypse basically. More will come through the night.
((made 2-03-07))
((updated 2-05-07))
Well now...those are the Norns any questions about them? They are possibly the most important in MY opinion.....key wors there is MY..... now this is strictly my opinion. Now the strongest is said to be Thor...I have to reference check this. He is a son of Odin I believe...or brother...either way I dislike his popularity when other gods/goddesses are forgotten....now one of these gods/goddesses is Hel. She is the daughter of Loki and rules over...you guessed it Hel! Amazing isn't it? Well she has two brothers...I forgot the name of one of them but he is a giant serpent. Her other brother is Fenrir, the giant wolf who ate Tyr's hand.
Now Try...he is like Hephaestus ((did I spell that right?)) well he is the God of the forge and makes things...get it? Good....that all I have on him....
ON WARD! YAY! Okay...I calm....to Fenrir...he is the giant wolf who is the brother of Hel and the son of Loki. He grows stronger and stronger as the days pass.
((Updated 2-07-07))
Okay now for more on Fenrir. He will continue to grow stronger till Ragnarok when he will break free and fight along side the giants. To imprison him they used first a normal iron link chain then one that was part iron and I rightly can't remember the other part emo so sorry dearies! but the last thread they used to hold him was made by the Dwarves and I can't remember what they used...but it was made from seven ingredients. This chain looked like the most delicate thread.
Now the only way they could convince Fenrir to let them put the chain on him was if one of the Gods would put their hand into Fenrir's mouth...how silly >.< Well anyways...no matter how he squirmed Fenrir couldn't break the chain...so he bit the hand off of the god who had put his hand into Fenrir's mouth....poor Tyr...lost 'is hand.
Sorry...I all mythed out for today...more will come tomorrow or the day after! YAY!
 Annal Combustion · Sun Feb 04, 2007 @ 02:37am · 0 Comments |
