Yggdrasil

Yggdrasil

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Yggdrasil, the "charger of the formidable".

Yggdrasil is in germano-Nordic religion the pillar, the support of the world. Considered to be an Ash (very enduring tree) or an English Yew (persistent foliage; contains a toxin alkaloid which affects the central nervous system and that, correctly prepared, can be hallucinogen, as well as if a day of strong heat) is based under a yew tree, the rune Eihwaz can be linked to him: it is the vertical axis of the world, symbol of life and of death, parking balance. The rune is a vector of communication, and not of separation; just as Yggdrasil who links up all the worlds of the world, which is the spinal column.

f.: l. ext.

Yggdrasil, it is also the eternal, invincible tree, that will survive in Ragnarök, even if it «will start to tremble ». Although Nídhögg and its foliage nibbled by a hart and one goat gnaws at his roots, he always remains so resistant. Regarding this aspect of eternity, we can also mention another tree of our legends with its importance (and of the slightest): the apple tree. Indeed, the goddess Idunn (name meaning probably «the one who looks younger») is the possessor of the apples which allow to the Gods to keep their youth to Ragnarök. The theft of apples because of Loki who drew her away in a forest is a famous episode of germano-Scandinavian mythology.

Yggdrasil it is also the source of knowledge. First of all because in its foot is the fountain of Mimir, wisdom and intelligence source in which Odin came to drink. In order to do that, he had to give in pledge one of the eyes. Odin will go to consult the source during the launching of Ragnarök.

Then due to the fact that the pendulous of Odin for nine nights and new days was made on this tree; it is during this pendulous that Odin picked up runes by shouting and acquired an extraordinary knowledge.

This tree which is «the biggest and the best of all trees» (fifteenth chapter of Gylfaginning) has therefore indirectly a role of dispenser of the knowledge in which approves sacrifices.

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In Norse mythology, Yggdrasil (Old Norse Yggdrasill, Template:IPA2; the extra -l is a nominative case marker) is the World Tree, a great ash tree located at the center of the universe and joining the Nine Worlds of Norse cosmology. The trunk of the tree may be thought of as forming a vertical axis around which these worlds are situated, with Ásgard, realm of the gods, at the top and the Hel, located in Niflheim, at the bottom. Midgard, or Middle-Earth (the world of mortals), is located in the middle and surrounded by Jötunheim, land of giants, both of which are separated by the ocean. Yggdrasil is also sometimes known as Mimameid or Laerad.

f.: http://mythology.wikia.com/wiki/Yggdrasil

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Yggdrasil, the Cosmic Ash (From Finn Magnusen's ''Eddalæren.''). (From The Sacred Tree, or The Tree in Religion and Myth; Mrs. J. H. Philpot, 1897.)

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