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~✿ Norse- World Tree of life (Yggdrasil) ✿~
In Norse mythology, Yggdrasil, also called the World Tree, is a giant ash
tree that shelters all the worlds. Yggdrasil has three gigantic roots that
stretch over all the realms of existence where three sacred springs exist.
From the first spring flows wisdom and knowledge.
From the second springs the well of destiny.
From the third flows the river of life, carrying the souls of the dead back
to be reborn into their next incarnations.
At the very base of the tree lived a serpent who gnawed at its roots. An
eagle, symbolizing the sun, lived in the top of the tree and fought off the
serpent's assaults. This kept the forces of life and death in balance so the
essential life force of the tree would never be damaged.
~The Poetic Edda~
What call they the tree that casts abroad
Its limbs o'er every land?
Mimameith (Mimir's Tree) its name, and no man knows
What root beneath it runs.
An ash I know, Yggdrasil its name,
With water white is the great tree wet;
Thence come the dews that fall in the dales,
Green by Urth's well does it ever grow.
Thence come the maidens mighty in wisdom,
Three from the dwelling down 'neath the tree;
Urth is one named, Verthandi the next,--
On the wood they scored, and Skuld the third.
Laws they made there, and life allotted
To the sons of men, and set their fates.
Nine worlds I knew, the nine in the tree
With mighty roots beneath the mold.
Three roots there are that three ways run
'Neath the ash-tree Yggdrasil;
'Neath the first lives Hel, 'neath the second the frost-giants,
'Neath the last are the lands of men.
Ratatosk is the squirrel who there shall run
On the ash-tree Yggdrasil;
From above the words of the eagle he bears,
And tells them to Nithhogg beneath.
Yggdrasil's ash great evil suffers,
Far more than men do know;
The hart bites its top, its trunk is rotting,
And Nithhogg gnaws beneath.
Research Material:
Tree of Life healing
http://www.treeoflifehealing.com/scripts/pageview.asp?id=1
Gods and Goddesses in Norse Mythology
http://www.norse-mythology.com/Yggdrasil.html
Image by Artist~ L. Miki Okuda
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