Yggdrasil

In Norse mythology, Yggdrasil (actually Yggdrasill [ˈygˌdrasil:]; the extra -l is a nominative case marker) also sometimes called Mimameid or Lerad was the "World tree", a gigantic tree, thought to connect all the nine worlds of Norse cosmology. It is often suggested to be an ash tree, an interpretation generally accepted in the modern Scandinavian mind. Another possibility is that the tree was formerly conceived of as a yew, consistent with its Eddic ...

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Yggdrasil: Spiritual Dictionary on Yggdrasil

Yggdrasil: World Tree, generally an ash, more correctly identified in later times as a Yew. The word Yggdrasil means literally "gallow" or "horse" of Ygg (i.e., Odin).

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Yggdrasil: New Age Spirituality Dictionary on Yggdrasil

Yggdrasil

The Norse tree which held up the world and the heavens; its roots led to the underworld. It provided the complex network of the universe.

Yggdrasil: Encyclopedia II - Yggdrasil - Yggdrasil in the Edda

Three roots supported the trunk, with one passing through Asgard, one through Jotunheim and one through Helheim. Beneath the Asgard root lay the sacred Well of Urd (Urðabrunnr), and there dwelt the three Nornir, over whom even the gods had no power, and who, every day, watered the tree from the primeval fountain, so that its boughs remained green. Beneath the Jotunheim root lay the spring or well of Mimir (Mímisbrunnr); and beneath the Helheim root t ...

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Yggdrasil: Encyclopedia - Weird Sisters

The Weïrd Sisters, (sometimes Wyrd Sisters or Three Weird Sisters), is the Germanic mythological group name given to the Nordic fates, or Norns. The Weird Sisters were said to live at the base of the World Tree, Yggdrasil, which was the link between the different planes of existance, or world; in some versions it links only Heaven and Hell. Their name is derived from the name of the first fate, Wyrd. Weird Sisters - The Sisters. Urd or Wyrd, the fate of the past an ...

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Yggdrasil: Encyclopedia - World tree

In certain Indo-European religions there was a belief in a world tree, such as Yggdrasil, in Norse mythology, an Oak in Slavic mythology and in Hinduism, a banyan tree. Although the concept is absent from the Greek mythology, medieval Greek folk traditions and more recent ones claim that the Tree that holds the Earth is shewn by goblins (Kallikantzaroi). A World Tree (Wacah Chan) also appears in the Maya religion as the axis mundi. It connects the Middleworld of man, with Xibalba (Otherwor ...

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Yggdrasil: Encyclopedia - Hel realm

In Norse mythology Hel ("house of mists"), shares a name with the Hel who rules it. It is thronged with the shivering and shadowy spectres of those who have died ingloriously of disease or in old age. Hel is also home to dishonourable people who have broken oaths. Hel is cold and low on the overall order of the universe. It lies beneath Yggdrasil's third root, near Hvergelmir and Nastrond. It is uncertain if Hel and Niflheim are completely different places, if one is part of t ...

Yggdrasil: Encyclopedia - Níðhöggr

Níðhöggr (Malice Striker, often anglicized Nidhogg[1]) in Norse mythology, is a dragon who eats the roots of the World Tree, Yggdrasill. Níðhöggr - Prose Edda. According to the Gylfaginning part of Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda, Níðhöggr is a being which gnaws one of the three roots of Yggdrasill. This root is placed over Niflheimr and Níðhöggr gnaws it from beneath. The same source also says that ...

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Yggdrasil: Encyclopedia - Bifröst

In Norse Mythology, Bifröst is the bridge leading from the realm of the mortals Midgard to the realm of the gods Asgard, which the gods travel daily to hold their councils under the shade of the tree Yggdrasill. The bridge itself is the rainbow and its guardian is the god Heimdallr. The red color was the flaming fire, which served as a defense against the giants. The bridge is destroyed at the end of t ...

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Yggdrasil: Encyclopedia - Veðrfölnir

In Norse mythology, Veðrfölnir or Veðrlaufnir is the name of a hawk sitting between the eyes of an eagle in the crown of Yggdrasill, the World Tree. Curiously, the name of the eagle isn't provided in any of the Norse sources, while the hawk is mentioned in the Gylfaginning. It has been speculated that this eagle could be identical to Hræsvelgr, the jötunn in eagle shape who, according to the Vafþrúðnismál, sits at the end of the skies and brings about the winds with his wings. However, there is no source in the Norse accounts to make this more than a qualified guess. Veðrf ...

Yggdrasil: Paganism Pagan Dictionary on YGGDRASIL

YGGDRASIL: One of the best known Tree of Life symbols. It unites all existence from the Underworld, to the Physical world.

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Yggdrasil: Craft Witchcraft Dictionary on YGGDRASIL

YGGDRASIL- (varies:igg dra-sil)

1) The Scandinavian Tree of Life that holds everything together.

2) Sacred ash tree that binds Earth with 'Heaven" and the "Underworld" in Norse myths.

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Yggdrasil: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary on Yggdrasil

Yggdrasil (Scandianvian Norse). The "World Tree of the Norse Cosmogony; the ash Yggdrasil ; the tree of the Universe, of time and of life".

It has three roots, which reach down to cold Hel, and spread thence to Jotun heim, the land of the Hrimthurses, or " Frost Giants ", and to Midgard, the earth and dwelling of the children of men. Its upper boughs stretch out into heaven, and its highest branch overshadows Waihalla, the Devachan of the fallen heroes.

The Yggdrasil is ever fresh and green, as it is daily sprinkled by the Norns, the three fateful sisters, the Past, the Present, and the Future, with the waters of life from the fountain of Urd that flows on our earth. It will wither and disappear only on the day when the last battle between good and evil is fought ; when, the former prevailing, life, time and space pass out of life and space and time. Every ancient people had their world-tree.

The Babylonians had their "tree of life", which was the world-tree, whose roots penetrated into the great lower deep or Hades, whose trunk was on the earth, and whose upper boughs reached Zikum, the highest heaven above. Instead of in Walhalla, they placed its upper foliage in the holy house of Davkina, the "great mother" of Tammuz, the Saviour of the world - the Sun-god put to death by the enemies of light.

Yggdrasil: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary on Yggdrasil

Yggdrasil (Scandinavian, Icelandic) [from ygr fierce, awesome, brooding + drasill steed, gallows]

The Norse Tree of Life, on which Odin, Allfather of the universe, is mounted or hanged during a period of manifestation. From the tree drops the honeydew which feeds all creatures. The squirrel Ratatosk (intelligence) runs up and down its trunk, while on its topmost bough perches an eagle with a hawk seated between its eyes.

The tree has three roots watered by three wells. One is in Asgard, home of the gods, where it is watered by the three norns: the past (Urd, origin), the present (Verdandi, becoming), and the future which is created by them -- owing (Skuld, debt). A second root penetrates the world of matter, where it is watered from the well of the giant Mimer whose waters are experience of life. Odin gave one eye as forfeit in order to receive a draft of that well, while Mimer has the use of Odin's eye which is sunk in the bottom of the well. The third root is watered by Hvergelmir, source of all the rivers of lives (kingdoms of nature) which rises in Niflheim, the world of mists (nebulae) where worlds are born.

Yggdrasil is not immortal. Its lifetime is coeval with the hierarchy the tree is used to represent. Its leaves are constantly being eaten by four stags, its bark is nibbled by two goats, and its roots are gnawed by the serpent Nidhogg which, in due course, will topple the "noble ash tree." During the first half of its life, the tree is named Mjotvidr (measure increasing); during the latter half Mjotudr (measure diminishing). When in due course the tree dies, its indwelling consciousnesses (Life and Lifthrasir), the human race, will be secreted in the "memory hoard of the sun" until their next emergence into a new existence.

Yggdrasil: Encyclopedia II - Thor's Oak - History

In 723, the Anglo-Saxon missionary Winfrid -- later called St. Boniface, Apostle of the Germans -- arrived in the area in his quest to convert the northern German tribes to Christianity, using as his base the Frankish fortified settlement of Büraburg on the opposite side of the Eder river. He had the oak felled in an attempt to convey superiority of the Christian god over Thor and the native Germanic religion. According to surviving texts, when Thor did not respond by hurling a lightning bolt at him, an amount of the assembl ...

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