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THE COSMOLOGY OF CREATION

 

AN ATTEMPT OF A MODERN INTERPRETATION OF THE NORSE CREATION MYTH

 

By comparing the old mythological explanation to modern Astronomy and Cosmology, it seems for me probable to show a common knowledge, which, for the first part, is experienced by physically and spiritually senses and for the other part is knowledge based on modern instrumental Astronomical and Cosmological measurements.

 

If such a comparison is successful, a great implication must be: The human spirit is able to gain Cosmological knowledge about the Earth, the Solar system and the Galaxy without the use of any instruments. And it is my claim that there is a big different between getting Cosmological knowledge spiritually and instrumentally. Instrumental measurements and knowledge tends to bond to the Linear World picture and the spiritual knowledge to the Circular World picture. And, although the modern scientists of course can be very ecstatic and emotional when new knowledge is gained, the spiritual way of experiencing the Cosmos creates a great respect for the creative forces, which again intuitively gives the basic understanding how to live concordantly with the creative forces on the Earth.

 

The 3-fold common knowledge in 1

 

 

The Norse mythological family

 

LAYERS UPON LAYERS OF STORY TELLING

When you are dealing with the Norse mythology, you must have in mind that, except from the Creation Myth itself, there is many layers of telling added throughout the time. Gods and Goddesses have been described from one time to another, and maybe the Gods and Goddesses from other cultures have been added with the increasing movements of populations. In order to distinguish and categorize the Gods and Goddesses, one must concentrate on their specific and common attributes. In this matter, the Comparative Mythology and Religion is of great importance to study.

 

And it is astoundingly firstly how identical the Story of Creation is told all over the World and secondly how identical the Gods and Goddesses are described also all over the World. Globally the stories are very similar! And only local conditions use some different animals - and anthropomorphic beings - to describe the meaning of the different myths. Of course there is this common knowledge! We all live on the same planet under the same sky under the same cosmological conditions!

 

THE ATTEMPT OF A MODERN INTERPRETATION OF THE NORSE CREATION MYTH STARTS HERE:

 

(The Mythological Story itself in blueprint - comments and explanations in ordinary print)

 

GINNUNGAGAB:

The Story of Creation in the Norse Mythology begins in the great emptiness, called Ginnungagap.

 

This opening of the story can immediately be compared to he modern theory of Big Bang: "Before there was something, there was nothing"! Or: "Out of nothing emerged everything".

 

Both explanations should of course not been taking literally - and, in my opinion, both telling should be understood as a "technique" to explain the basics of how creative forces merges the material and later on expands in cosmos in a rhythmic and cyclic movement.

 

THE BASIC ELEMENTS OF CREATION

1 is the number for Everything. 2 for Light and Matter, for Warmth and Cold and for expansion and contraction. 3 is for the combined worlds of the Earth, the Sun System and our Galaxy. 4 is for Air, Fire, Water and Soil. 8 is for the interaction of the 4 elements. By this description one can easily imagine even modern atomic principles which is used in many moderns scientific branches. And just think about how the weather changes and interacts throughout the seasons.

 

THE STORY OF CREATION

We set the number in (1 = Everything) and begin the Norse Story of Creation with the 2 basic qualities:

 

In the warm Muspelheim in the South, sparkles and glowing embers from Fire are flying out and spreads towards the northern part in Ginnungagap, Niflheim, where darkness and coldness has deep-frozen all matter.

 

Now: In order to describe the originally creative and characteristically powers, one can only describe the movement and progression of these powers in familiar terms. And the familiar terms comes from the seasonal changes of the Year. And when using the seasonal changing's as a story telling technique, our ancestors also have described that "everything above is like below". That is: The same forces and laws works both in Macro Cosmos and Micro Cosmos.

 

- The fire, light and warmth from Muspelheim meets the frozen matter from Niflheim in "the middle of Ginnungagap". The frozen matter gets warmer and moist shrouds everything.

 

In the course of this events, the Story concerns the very basics of Creation: When cold and warm matter meets and sets of a beginning of movement.

 

Out from the middle of Ginnungagap grows the cow Audhumbla, the first symbol of Creation. From Audhumbla´s udder floats 4 rivers of milk.

 

 

Why "rivers of milk"? Because the color of the Milky Way is white. And why the number 4? Because the Milky Way have 4 major arms in the Spiral. And that´s why a Cow is such a great symbol of Creation - of course together with many other symbols.

 

A Rock Carving from Norway and Turkey, both marking the centre of the Milky Way.

 

An Egyptian female, The Great Mother, radiating matter from the Womb compared to a Star Atlas with the southern contours of the Milky Way and the centre of the Milky Way marked with an inserted Spiral.

 

From the centre in "Audhumbla´s womb floats the 4 rivers out and gives nourishment to the Giant Ymer, the second symbol of Creation.

 

On both sides of the Egyptian picture in the middle, the northern and the southern contours of our Milky Way. The Egyptian female picture are covered with Stars which clearly tells us that she have something to do with the Night Sky, and her name is Nut, queen of the Night and she is the Mother Goddess. If the left Star Atlas picture is placed under the right Atlas picture, we have the very same motif and meaning as on the Egyptian mythological picture.

 

Ymer drank of the 4 rivers of Milk and, while sleeping, 2 human beings, one woman and one man, grow out of his arm pits. And out from the giant Ymer the whole Sky and World was created.

 

From the Danish Wessel of the Gundestrup Cauldron: The giant Ymer holding the first 2 humans, who are symbolized above in the Star Atlas pictures and on the Egyptian picture.

 

From Muspelheim in the south came more sparks of light which created the Stars, the Sun and the Moon.

 

 

THE 3 WORLD DIMENSIONS

The number 3 symbolizes the 3 dimensions in the Norse Mythology, namely Midgaard where humans live, Asgaard above with Star Constellation fantasy pictures of both human-  and animal like beings. The third dimension, Udgaard, belongs to all giant beings directly connected to the fantasy pictures of the Milky way contours on the northern and the southern hemisphere.

 

 

The schematic drawing in the middle show the 3 dimensions or 3 Rings of worlds. Number 1 is your location on Earth, 2 is the Earth itself, 3 is the Star Heaven and 4 with its grey/white vaulting band on the night Sky. The Rock Carving pictures are from Ireland and Sweden.

 

THE WORLD TREE AND ITS CREATIONAL MOVEMENTS

In the middle of the World stands a tall ash tree, called Yggdrasil. Its crown reach up in Heaven and its roots stands in the Underworld.

 

There have been many attempts to describe how our Nordic ancestors have imagined their perception of the World.

 

The Story of the World Tree is about how the creative forces works throughout the seasonal changes on the Earth. The giant tree Yggdrasil is standing in the middle of the Earth with its stem going TROUGH the Earth axis and its crown and roots spreading out in the Earth atmosphere! All the mythological animal figures mentioned in connection with the Ash Yggdrasil, are Star Constellations or Milky Way figures. Except from one special animal, namely the squirrel "Ratatosk"

 

 

The story of the World Tree is specifically dealing with the powers that works inside and outside the Earth throughout the seasons. It´s first and foremost about how the geomagnetic forces inside and outside the Earth is working and how this force is creating all vegetable life on Earth. And it´s about the Sun influences on the Earth magnetic fields both in a day and while the Earth is orbiting the Sun.

 

In the seasonal changes, the creative geomagnetic power increase and decrease because of the Sun radiation influence on the Earth magnetic fields daily and annually when the Earth axis leans away and towards the Sun throughout the season - and this qualitative changes goes both ways, "up and down" and of course it creates opposite seasonal phenomenon's on the northern and the southern hemisphere at the same time. And the geomagnetic forces creates both the vegetable tops and the roots trough the Earth daily and seasonal movement.

 

In the Spring time you can observe the soil damping. It´s not only because of the Sun warming up the soil. Long before the Sun have a warming power the warmth of the geomagnetic force have slowly warmed up the soil deep within the ground. And if you cut a scratch or score in a tree stem some time before spring, you can observe how early the sap runs some time before the Sun have any greater warmth effect. This indicates an increasing geomagnetic  pressure from within the Earth up trough all vegetable matters. A geomagnetic pressure that increase and decrease in the seasons. Up and down - up and down. Just as the squirrel "Ratatosk" in the Norse Mythology.

 

Ratatosk is a squirrel running up and down on the Ash Yggdrasil world tree. Ratatosk can freely move between the worlds of ice in Niflheim and the world of fire in Muspelheim. Ratatosk brings the words from the Eagle in the top of Yggdrasil to the snake Nidhug below in the roots of Yggdrasil. Ratatosk talks with everybody in the 3 worlds or dimensions. Ratatosk brings news between all in the 3 worlds or dimensions. And there is a constantly fight between the Eagle in the crown of Yggdrasil and the Snake in the roots of Yggdrasil.

 

The squirrel Ratatosk is the specific symbol of the changing Geomagnetic Force itself. The story of Ratatosk is a fantastic precise construction of describing the creative process throughout the seasonal changes in the increasing and decreasing Geomagnetic creative force and as specific description of all vegetable growth.

 

RAGNAROK - IS NOT THE END OF THE WORLD

In a world described in circles, it´s NOT very likely that our Norse ancestors have a perception of a total end of the World! The story of Ragnarok is just a simple story of everything in life. Of Star Constellation figures are moving throughout the day and seasons. How everything grows and vanish. Of birth and dead - all the cyclic phenomenon's we humans can experience in a lifetime as well in bigger cyclic periods beyond our lifes.

 

- With this description I provisionally conclude the story of the Creation in the Norse Mythology - I hope you now are open for this modern attempt of interpretation of the old story! For my own part, I´m sure one can find similar connections and explanations between old and modern facts in every cultural Story of Creation all over the World.

 

It´s just a matter of looking at the old stories and symbols in a new way and connect these to moderns scientific fact from Astronomy and Cosmology.

 

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