Let's Find Out - (Norse myth) creation & the first humans | ASMR

Episode Date: May 1, 2019

In Norse mythology, Ask and Embla (from Old Norse: Askr ok Embla)—male and female respectively—were the first two humans, created by the gods. The pair are attested in both the Poetic Edda, compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources, and the Prose Edda, written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson. In both sources, three gods, one of whom is Odin, find Ask and Embla and bestow upon them various corporeal and spiritual gifts. Thanks for watching and thanks to Farmer Leaf https://www.farmer-leaf.com for being my first sponsor and making awesome hand-picked, affordable, quality teas in the mountains of Pu'er, China. If you want to explore the varieties of fresh teas at a 10% discount, just use LETSFINDOUT upon checkout. #ASMR #myth #history

We're going to be reading some more Norse myths. Long after the Ragnarok movie came out, we read about the myth behind the inspiration for that story, which was essentially the end of all Norse mythology down here. Although I never got to, I suppose, the part two, maybe the comedic, the positive, end to that story and then we jumped all the way back to the first gods and giants

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synopsis, the beginning of time, according to Norse mythologies. Originally, there was nothing except Nivellheim, a waste of frozen fog, and Muspelheim, a place of raging flames. And in between the fog and the fire, there was a keeping pit called Gununga Gap, her untold ages and aeons. Nothing happened except the worrying of this fog and fire until one day out of the Kanunga gap rose and sparked an enormous ugly shape. And this was the frost giant Emir, first of the race of the Uyotans. And at his side a hornless ice cow also came move from the pit. As we learned last time, after a while enough,

Yotins, other Yotins, also emerged out of this whirl. And persistent, licking, and energy of the cow came out of the ground. As she licked and licked, her tongue grew warm, for she had to lick hard to make enough food for the emir in his brood, which took milk from her, I guess. So ice cow was the source of all their for nourishment, I guess. So the cow kept herself warm by leaking this ice field. And eventually enough licking went down.

Redo that. And eventually, under her warm tongue, a head sprouted on the tiny briny brim. And as she went on looking, a face appeared, and shoulders and a chest came forth, then legs, and at last stepped out a whole new creature. And this new creature was a breed of his own. He was straight and quite handsome, not ugly, like the Yotans and the trolls. And he had a son who was even more handsome. And the son took a beautiful wife of one of the,

Yotans, for even the Yotans, sometimes ugly frost giants that they are, would have a lovely daughter, and it was from their union of the Yotin maiden in this second generation new, straight beautiful being, that the first of the great Assyr gods, Odin, Onir, and Loder, were born. Spirit, will, and want. Take a moment just to look at the, just appreciate the depth and complexity of this drawing here. Complex textures and color palettes used to represent the ice giant. And the bright, straightforward colors like yellow and blue with not smeared but in fact very defined, tightly to find star patterns on their deep blue monochrome garments. And in fact, as their heads rear back to face the ice giant, the massive, imposing ice giant looming before them, tops of each of their caps appears as though they are stars themselves. So eventually these us here,

vanquished Imir, the creation of the world So the Assyr Raised Imur's body out of the sea And made Midgard Or the earth From it Emir's flesh became the soil

His bones, the mountains, his teeth They pushed desolate And if lime deep deep underground Where its icy fog Could not freeze The earth In overland and sea They set Emir's huge

skull as the dome of the sky, so the sparks from Muspelheim would not set the new world a fire. They caught some of the sparks and fastened them to the dome, and these became the sun, the moon. Neither day nor night, for the sun and the moon. They didn't move. They were fastened to their places. so Odin, Onir, and Luder made two teams of horses behind them and set the horses trotting across the silvery light thought that the Asir had to tie bellows to the flanks of her horses to keep them from being burned. Interesting that they have their son, the representation of the sun

to them is female. It says a lot about their culture and maybe the warmth that in such a north-north must represent up there that makes a home such a key figure as it would be in lower latitudes around the equator

maybe women were maybe warmth was more a characteristic applied to women than men perhaps men being hunters needed to be outside and exposed to the cold elements were the centers of the warm union of the family unit and the love that they longed to come back to and longed to have around just like Norse would have longed for the summer in the warmth of the sun's rays after a long winter when the assyre owed in and honed Honir and Luter defeated Imir and his Yotans.

There were two Yotans, male and female, that were able to survive on a floating ice cap in the big briny frost into which they expelled all the Yotans. We were able to reproduce and they clambered up on the ice flows and went to live on the wild outer shores. of sea, of the sea made by the emirs brine, and the Assyr did not pursue them. And almost right away in this ice-bound wilderness, Yotanine, was teeming with their offspring, so they were bound to make a comeback. And the Yotans and trolls were creatures of darkness. They hated the light. Some of them could change their shapes at will. So two of them, disguised as wolves, spraying up on the dome of the sky.

They ran after the sun and the moon, trying to catch and devour them, and the horses ran for their lives. They ran around and around the sky, always with the wolves at their never daring to pause. And so there were noon and dusk and dark. and dawn. Related to the Assyr were some other gods, the Vainir gods. They lived in a neighboring world called the Vanaheim ruled over rain and soft winds, and they sent gentle showers to earth. As rain fell in the warm rays of the sun shone on Amir's gray bones, the stubble of his beard sprouted as green grass and spread over the valleys and glens.

His hair grew into deep forests and oak unfolded their leaves, and the forests of pine and fir grew dense and dark. It was a beautiful, fresh, green earth, and now the Assyre began to peoplet, hungry dogs, angry dogs. A hungry dog is an angry dog. Chasing the horses with their respective suns and moons and maybe the Yotans off in the distant Yotanim realm. What's interesting is that we don't see the loop dip below or at least not very far below the mountain ranges off in the distance. and I just realized that being in the north, nearest to the North Pole, there are many times of the year where the sun, in fact, does not dip into the night sky. But for nearly the entire day, and if you go far enough north,

for the entire 24-hour period, certain times of the year, during the summer, in the northern hemisphere at least the sun will never set and in the winter the sun is facing away this is the north pole here summer as the sun faces the sun the northern hemisphere rather faces the sun rotates but it's facing toward it so it never sees the sunset if we will pretend this light over here doesn't exist. In the winter, there's very little daylight that they see in the farthest reaches of the northern hemisphere. The inverse is true if for the research scientists and penguins

living in all the way down in Antarctica. First, the Assyr made the light elves, shining creatures bright as sunbeams and light as leaves. They were gentle and good and flew about on gossamer wing. Their homes were not on earth, but high up in the air in the shimmering world of alphime, which the Assyr gods made for them. Go to the opening picture. Only this is a worldview. Live in Midgard.

Everything else created revolves around the tree of life. And of the eternal timeless abyss of Niflheim in Muspelheim. So over here, it's the elves and off in the distance. We have the Yoteneheim where the giants and trolls live. And the Assyria live, I guess I suppose, that the head of the tree. Modern man is down here, the dwarves and the gnomes live in the roots,

in the veneer gods, and gimli. So the elves lived in the alphine, and the Assyr gods made that land for them. There were worms burling, deep underground, in Emir's ore-laden veins, and the Assyr changed these into gnomes and gave them tools to mine the precious metals and soon the caves rang with the sounds of hammers and chisels. The gnomes were not friendly.

They were grumpy and tricky. There were little men who hobbled along and spoke with shrill, echoing voices. Their faces were pale as mushrooms. And they lived underground, and the sun never shone upon them, the dwarfs, chisling away at the oar, marvelous miners and smiths, and they kept the Assyr well supplied with gold, silver, and iron. Then the Assyr made sprites and spirits to inhabit the land in the sea and care for every hillock, every mountain, every lake, and every waterfall. And last, they made fish to gamble in the sea. Birds to soar in the sky. And animals to run about and prow in the fields and forests.

The Assyr looked around and they were pleased with their work. They had animals to hunt, fish. The only thing they did not have was someone who would worship them. So they decided to create man. But how is he to look? See the elves, the dwarves, and the sea creatures that grab the books here, was able to revivify this tradition and make it so appealing. Instead of middle guard, we have middler guarding dragon. And Frodo's journey took him all the way down south.

Cross Rohan in the Emond Mule Hills into the oddly square shape. geometric shape because just like Mephistopheles and Milton's paradise laws are capable of ingenious contraptions inventions ideas but if you box yourself in away from the mysteries and the awe of infinity the infinite complexity and grandeur of reality you're bound to spiral into darkness. If you think you have nothing left to learn, it's very cool that there's such conscious parallel between Tolkien's books and he's great of the Norse peoples. So let's see what kind of men and women they decided to create. Longassir walked along the seashore. Their eyes fell upon two little trees, an ash and an altar, standing side of the

by side. In these two trees, they saw the makings of mankind, straight as gods and tough as wood. But the ash in the alder were only trees. They had no souls. They could neither think, and the sap that flowed beneath their bark was cold. So together, the three gods blew life into the trees. Odin gave them souls O'Neer gave them the will to think and move And odor gave them the feeling in warm red blood Slowly the ash in the older turned and twisted We can see them up here

Uppermost leaves Turning in the hair With faces Emerging out of the branches Broader lower limbs limbs and feet emerging out of the root system below even showing that the Assyr garments star far above an animal the Asir wanted human beings to be the greatest of all their creations so they gave them names and loaned them their own cloaks until they could learn to make clothes

for themselves and the man at nimbla after the trees from which they had been created As a birth gift, they gave them the whole earth for their home, and to protect them against the onslaughts of the wild Yotans and Yodunheim, they made a fence with Emir's eyebrows and placed it around the earth. Three gods made a home for themselves high up above the tallest mountains and set up a shimmering rainbow as a bridge in Asgard. From Asgard, they watched over Ask and, Emble, older children.

The first descendants of Askenembla were not handsome. Their skin was rough like bark. Their joints gnarled. They ate wild plants and hunted animals with clubs and wrapped themselves in furs to keep out the cold.

They lived in hovels and had no manners at all. And their eyes were downcast. and dull. You could see them, basically personifying prehistoric cavemen. Their grandchildren were better in every way. They tilled the soil, lived in houses, sailed the seas. They ate well-baked breads and dressed in shapely clothes, and their shoulders were broad, their cheeks rosy, and their eyes lively. their great-grandchildren were finer still. They were fair and handsome and sat at leisure in great halls,

dressed in fine woolens and snow-white linens. They ate roasts from silver platters and sipped sweet mead from crystal goblets and ornate drinking horns like a duck. They had manners for Odin himself told them how to behave. In the disguise of a wise old wanderer He often walked among men A wide-brimmed hat Shaded his face

A dark blue cloak set with sparkling stars Hid his huge chest He walked about the earth Testing the hospitality of the people For hospitality was very important To men who lived far apart And wild and roadless lands When he was welcomed to Hall or Hovell, he seated himself by the fire and talked to the people.

Your friend's friends shall be your friends. Your friends' foes shall be your foes. Tread down the path to your friend's house, and don't let it grow over with weeds, he said. Always keep your door open to the tired traveler, the man who comes to your house with shivering knees needs a place by the fire in dry clothes and warm food. When you enter the house of a stranger, look into cupboards and dark corners to see if a foe might be hiding. Then take the seat that is offered to you and listen more than you might speak. For then no one will notice how little you know, always have a bite to eat before going to feast.

A hungry man is not a bright speaker. It's an unwise man who sits awake worrying all night. When morning comes, he'll be too tired to think. And matters will still be more tangled. And at last he said, men die, cattle die. And you yourself must die one day. There is only one thing that will not die. The name, good or bad, that you have made.

for yourself. Thus, Odin, the Assyr God, sat by the hearts and spoke, and the people listened. When he disappeared, they knew they had been listening to the voice of the High One, and they held his words, sacred, were thankful to the gods for having created them, and for sending sunshine and rains to their fields. And they sacrificed to them and worshipped them in sacred groves and sanctuaries. This seer, in turn, were fond of mankind and watched over them and protected them against the Yotans. But it was the three phase of destiny

who decided the fate of every human being. Their names were erred. Berndi and Skult what was, what had been, and what was to be, To every newborn child, they wield a life of luck or a life of misery. A short life or a long one. For the norns spun a thread of life for every human being. Mostly it was a gray coarse thread.

But for farmers and free men, they sometimes spun a finer thread in a brighter color. in a while for a hero or a great prince, it would spin a thread of gleaming gold, where the Norns and fairies. The Assyr had to bow to the will of the Ur-Verd, Verdande, and scold. For the Asir were not immortal gods, they too must die when the Norns decreed it, like everybody and everything. and be here for the modest worker. His thread is dull gray, black, and coarse, spotted.

The perhaps middle income, blue-collar worker, the craftsman. His thread is a little more colorful. It's red. Less spotted, a little less coarse. The golden gossamer. It was a pleasure doing this. I really enjoy learning all about some of my own history and some of the core traditional mythologies

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