Ymir

History

Ymir, the founder of the race of the giant of white frost , as well as an important figure in Scandinavian cosmology, was formed ice of Niflheim, where this one touched with the heat of Muspellheim and founded. Giants left the body of Ymir while he slept, of its Aisselle S emerged a man and a woman, while from her legs was born a son.

Ymir lived Lait of the Vache Audumla which had four Pis. This one licked the white frost and the salt whose Ymir was covered, thus forming Buri, the father of Bor, father himself of Odin of Vili and Vé.

In the myth of creation, Odin, exasperated by the brutality of Ymir, killed it and threw it in the Ginnungagap (“the open pit”). The flood caused by its blood was so large that it killed all the giants, separately the grandson of Ymir (Bergelmir, wire of Thrudgelmir) and his wife. Odin and its brother used the body of Ymir to create the Earth; its flesh fills Ginnungagap, its hair became trees, its eyebrow became Midgard, and its bones changed into mountains. In the same way, its teeth and the fragments of its bones became the rocks, and its blood gave rise to the Rivière S, with the Lac S, the pond S and the Mer. Its Cranium format the Sky, which rested on four dwarves, his brain becoming the clouds, and the Asticot S of the flesh generated the race of the dwarves.

Bonds with other mythologies

Ymir is related with Yama in the Hindouisme.
It should be noted that the history of Scandinavian Creation has strong similarities with its Greek equivalent (see Cronos)

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