Ymir
Ymir is the first being of Norse cosmogony, formed in the meeting of the ice of Niflheim and the fire of Muspelheim. The cow Audhumla licks Buri free of the ice, and Buri's descendants - Odin, Vili and Ve - kill Ymir.
The planetary, elemental, zodiacal, stone, herb and tarot values are modern Western correspondences chosen for coherence with the rest of the corpus, not ancient attributions. Ymir has no cult and no temple in the record; he is a cosmogonic being, and the entry marks him as such rather than dressing him as a god.
Correspondences
- Planetary Correspondence
- Saturn
Offerings
- Offerings
- SaltStoneIceRaw grain
Sacred timing
Symbols and forms
- Alternate Names
- AurgelmirThe First Giant
- Gender Expression
- Masculine
- Titles
- The First GiantThe World-BodyFather of the Giants
- Symbols
- Giant bodyFrostSkullCow audhumla
Practice
- Invocation Approach
- ToneGrave and generativeAddressYmirFirst GiantThe Body of the WorldRelationshipThe material the world is made fromWarning
he is raw material, not a patron. A working with Ymir is a working about cost.
ResonanceBeginnings from nothing sacrifice that becomes structure - Modern Practice
Worked with when something has to be made out of raw material and the cost is part of the making: a beginning that consumes what came before, a structure built from a loss. The practice is the account of the dismemberment, not a request for comfort.
Nature and meaning
- Domain
- Primal matterCreationSacrificeThe worldBeginningsRaw material
- Mythology Summary
Ymir is the first being of Norse cosmogony, formed in the meeting of the ice of Niflheim and the fire of Muspelheim. The cow Audhumla licks Buri free of the ice, and Buri's descendants - Odin, Vili and Ve - kill Ymir. His blood drowns all but one pair of giants; his flesh becomes the earth, his blood the sea, his bones the mountains, his skull the sky, his brains the clouds, and his eyebrows the wall of Midgard.
Details
- Secondary Planets
- Jupiter
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