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Cycles in Norse Mythology Are Not Mere Circles, They Are Evolutionary Cycles Abstract; Cycles in Norse Mythology are not mere circles, they are evolutionary cycles. It is interesting to see how many cycles we live in. Óðsmál research Iceland - become literate on allegory in our heritage the Cultural and Spiritual Heritage of the North. * Cycles yule Baldur sun-god Mundilfari mandala Helia BigBang-ragnarök Óðinn as Sveðjandi No evolutionary cycle, no evolving - material orientation only (the 5 senses looking for happiness in the wrong place “out there”) Allegory and symbolic language in myths is revealed in Óðsmál, to amend our illiteracy on the symbolic language found in our ancient priceless spiritual heritage. We shall become literate on the profound teachings of forni siður. Óðinn rides over the sky at yule-tide to chase away wights of cold and darkness. Then his name is Jólnir (--jól is yule--), or his name is Sveðjandi. Óðins name Sveðjandi means he who flies or rides over the sky and ocean - rennur loft og lög. This indicates our spring to come, the promise of spring. Easter is our ancient spring-deity. Heathen kids give at yule-tide - it is not the demanding, not the making of a list of gifts they wish to get - no - kids carry out grains and hay for Óðins pony, feed him to give him strength. Kids give, kids help our spring to come. All our over-eating, candy, lights, parcels, embracing, wishing happiness, is to help light and warmth to beat darkness and cold. We are creatures of the North. For us this has a profound meaning: survival. We are pushing the cycle towards the good part of it. Rennur loft og lög (means: flies air and seas). So does also Friggjar (Frigg’s) dís (maid) Gná. Gná and Fulla dísir Friggjar. Why all these rivers in Norse myths? -Can rivers be cycles? -Yes! Rivers are symbolic for cycles, Even symbolic for us diving into Ægir (--our consciousness--), which is a cycle of purification and evolution. Our melting glaciers form huge glacial rivers. Our freshwater rivers originate in the mountains from our fountains and sources, and they flow towards the ocean, Ægir. They merge into the ocean, from which pure water evaporates, rises, and forms clouds. Clouds are blown to the mountains where they become rain and snow. To close the cycle, this water becomes brooks and rivers again and again. It is fun to understand all names in Icelandic - remember that names contain a meaning. They are not mere empty labels at all: Þund Slíður Ífing Síð Víð Sækinn Eikin Svöl Gunnþró Fjörm Fimbulþul Rín Rennandi Gipul Göpul Gömul Geirvimul Þyn Vin Þöll Höll Gráð Gunnþorin Vína Vegsvinn Þjóðnuma Nyt Nöt Nönn Hrönn Slíð Hríð Sylgur Ylgur Víð Ván Vönd Strönd Gjöll Leiftur Körmt Örmt Kerlaugar tvær - heilög vötn hlóa. They head for the unfathomable Ægir - consciousness - the origin which is not known by any man - manngi veit hvers af rótum renn askurinn. Rivers’ flow is effortless, and they contain enormous power. Abundance of effortless power, as is the power of Natural Law. And we have access to it all, as we are this Total Potential of Natural Law. Our daily cycle: We should nýsa niður (Hávamál), i.e. transcend thought, space and time, to imbibe the mjöður, mead of wisdom, the real Truth, and shovel it into our life in Miðgarður. That is a good and nourishing cycle. Visit Ásgarður, come back to Miðgarður full of vigour and wisdom. Having imbibed fimbulrúnir, that come in so handy in life. What Óðinn/we enjoy, the wine, vín eitt, is flow of consciousness. No alcohol. Hávamál (first part, the behavioural code for the crude man) warns against getting drunk. Better to have one’s brain functioning -- að hver heimti aftur geð sitt guma. Cycles are not mere rings, as cycles carry us forward - on our evolutionary path. How many of us know what an evolutionary path really is?? We might read about past evolution in school books, but schools utterly fail us when it comes to knowing the purpose of human life-spans - evolution ahead of us. Not one word on that business. What little there is is astray-leading lies. -Why are we not taught the truth? -Because teachers, parents, grandparents, priests, school-book writers - nor anyone else - knows. We have been deprived of Truth. For centuries past, authorities and expensive institutions have deceived us. Education has become a lump of ignorance. The so-called religious institutions have, during the dark ages, become death-oriented, along with boons and punishments if their rules are not followed, and our authorities only care for teaching us working-skills so that we can make money in life. The purpose in life becomes: make money, make a living. Making money (for oneself or for authorities) is not the purpose of human life-spans. We should understand our own spiritual treasure: Siður, a tradition, evolves with the Laws of Nature in its own place. We cannot just move the surface to some other faraway place. Nor should we import other peoples’ belief-systems, as that stuff is not according to the Laws of Nature in our land. To import some devil and hot hell north to arctic circle (arktos is bear, referring to the sign in the northern skies) was bound to fail. We just mocked him, that mister Devil of theirs. Everyone could beat him in a bet - according to folklore. Women were even the smartest in that, the-soul-at-stake game. To begin with, the wise heathen men could always have the devil under. Those stories annoyed the clergy, and the stories were persistent - so they replaced the wise heathen men with priests who now were stronger than the devil, and had him under. What did they not steal and twist?!!! - They even stole our upside-down- disbelief in their devil. Chintaiyalar Peravai, the Tamil, points out how many aspects of Vishnu became different powers later on. The devil sometimes has the 3-fork of Poseidon. As Poseidon is lesser than Zeus, so the ditheism Dios-Diavolo is not the both parts of equal status. Churchian Christmas and Easter were exported south of equator, which makes them upside down: Yule on summer-solstice, Easter in autumn. When the Roman Empire yule --/Christian Christmas / our sun-god´s resurrection-- was exported to the southern hemisphere on the other side of Equator, that had these disastrous consequences: Everything is upside down! Yule on summer-solstice when days again start to become shorter. We should not move siður (a tradition) to another place, and we should not import other peoples’ religions. As we have seasonal deities like Sif for autumn of harvest, Holy Mary the virgin can also be seen as a spring deity, as 9 months later Jesus born in December at winter-solstice. Mother to John the Baptist (who gives birth in June at summer solstice) is then an infertile autumn-deity, correlating to our Norse Ellisif. Sif is the abundance of harvest, Easter is a spring deity, and they become our holydays in the cycle. Our seasonal cycles, Mother Nature’s cycles. Theocracies make their own calendars. These man-made calendars are a tool. Anno zero is invented, and they invent “Their Era” (continents they rule over). Here we have 4 sons of Óðinn as a cycle. Váli is son of our Rindur, who correlates to varuna and Uranus. Váli, the hawk (valur) of morning, is the rising one. Víðarr the descending, or transcending one. There are daily cycles, and huge cycles like Ymir-ragnarök. Mundilfari (earth’s axis), draws a mandala, a circle. Thou canst, gedanken- experimentally, extend earth‘s axis out of the globe then we have Mundilfari whose “ends” write, or draw a circle, close it every 26.000 years. Jól, yule, are made by Mother Earth’s movements, as are day and night by her circling. mamma and Loki - here her mankind We always knew that Mother Earth is not flat; our pure air in the North - no haize - allows for us to see endlessly; ships faraway on the horizon are seen from land, first the sail, or the smoke when coal was used, then the ship appears over the horizon. Seen from the ocean, on the other hand, as we come nearer to land, first the tops of huge cliffs or mountains are seen, as if they rise up from the sea on the horizon. This unlimited visibility is because of our pure and clear air. (Why would the basket be at the top of the ship’s mast from where the watch-man sees far?) Hel, Helia, is a coffee-break between life-spans. Hermóður (--her-móður or herm-óður - always count for meaning in names--) resurrects his son sun- god Baldur. Ancient manuscript decoration detail: Baldur inn góði (Baldur the good), and the sun which he represents, now dwelling here in Hel at winter-solstice, or dark ages in our lives on earth - our sun-god lost. But, anyway, a dark part of a cycle. We live on Mother Earth, and we go to Helia, and that is a perpetual cycle - while we still live our life-spans in our tröll (ignorance). Hel is no end station at all. She is a part of that cycle. Never confuse our ancient knowledge to that imported system from the South. Some kids confuse Jesus, Mabon, Santa, - just some yule-something, winter-solstice feast characters. old Icelandic jóla/yule-postcard We in Iceland have our own jólasveinar (yule-lads). I see them as our late forefathers. They visit us at yuletide. We give them food and reverence, but this worship might have been banned, so we made up stories about some jólasveinar who stole some food from the pantry during yuletide.
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