Ymir Suckling the Cow Audhumla. Nicolai Abildgaard, circa 1777
Tribal Conflict in Norse Myth and The Ceremony Reconciliation
By Andreas Kornevall
Before we can understand the origin of the two tribes of the Aesir and Vanir, we need to familiarize ourselves with the images and story of the Norse Creation Myth. Here it is retold from a storyteller’s chair; my sources are cited at the end.
Before the verdant forests, seas, and mountains, there was only a first primal anonymity, Ginnungagap—an apt name for something incomprehensible. There was no existence there, nor was there non-existence. There was only a witch-cauldron where all possibility was contained: a mother of light.
Subscribe to the New PRS Journal to read on...
Before the verdant forests, seas, and mountains, there was only a first primal anonymity, Ginnungagap—an apt name for something incomprehensible. There was no existence there, nor was there non-existence. There was only a witch-cauldron where all possibility was contained: a mother of light.
Subscribe to the New PRS Journal to read on...
Nothing comes from nothing. Manly Hall’s vision for the All-Seeing Eye was entirely supported by contributions from its readers who paid for their subscription with gifts made according to their means. Manly Hall wrote,
“This magazine is published and distributed privately to those who make possible with their financial support its publication. The magazine cannot be bought and has no fixed value. Like all of the ancient teachings which it seeks to promulgate, it has no comparative value, but the students must support it for its own intrinsic merit.”
