Yggdrasill: The Realms of Jotunheim, Niflheim and Muspelheim:A practical understanding of the Norse cosmology.Article author: Max North @ Asatro News / Published: 22nd day of Winterfylleth mōnaþ 2264.RE / 21st day of "Winter filled" in Anglo-Saxon/Olde English (October) 2014http://englishnews.org/asatroasatru/yggdrassil-muspelheim-jotunheim.html “Just as the northern part was frozen, the southern was molten and glowing, but the middle of Ginnungagap was as mild as hanging air on a summer evening. There, the warm breath drifting north from Muspell met the rime from Niflheim, it touched it and played over it, and the ice began to thaw and drip. Life quickened in those drops, and they took the form of a giant. He was called Ymir.” – The Creation. Norse Myths: Gods of the Vikings. Also found in "The Prose Edda". In the Nordic cosmology upon Yggdrasill: the conceptual tree of life that forms the essence of the universe, there are additionally the realms of Jotunheim, Nifelheim and Muspelheim, they are where the conceptual Giants and Dragons originate from in all our ancient lore.
The metaphysical definition of a Giant in an interpretation of the Norse Germanic tradition of Seidr: A giant is a primal nature spirit of strong spiritual influence and impact they are usually seen as polarized vibrations if you were to view their psychologicaltimpact on a brain wave frequency chart. Such as anger, fear, anxiety etc. This however does not make them evil or something that must be ignored but rather a natural part of metaphysical reality whether if we like it or not.
Conceptually there are two classes of Giants the Frost Giants of Jotunheim and the Fire Giants of Muspelheim. The realm of Jotunheim is the home of the Jotuns, the Frost Giants, they are the most human like out of the two classes of giants. But rather of a morally grey consciousness their vibrations are very heavy like the rocky and snowy stormy mountains, the energy which they manifest is usually that of anxiety and depression. Frost giants and Fire giants were also seen as aspects of nature potentially used as teaching tools over generations to explain the unpredictable nature of frost and winter and of fire, volcanoes and lava fields as experienced along ancient coastal Norway and Iceland to this day.
However this so called energy of anxiety and depression is a part of our natural emotions and can be cleansed through Ritual and taking action and change for the better. The so called New Age movement in today’s world teaches that if you do not think in a negative way then negativity will not manifest into your life however this is simply not true and often creates the opposite effect.
The de-facto failure of motivation that led the New Age movement to cease to exist is illustrative of its failed understanding of human nature, much of the New Age movement was an act of defilement by Jewish cultural manipulators and individuals who sought to take advantage of the void left by the immediate collapse in the authority of other societal figures and norms. In reality Asatru is a counter-current, a force that goes against disorder, Asatru is structured, principled, organic, naturally formed over our ancestral history and is thus the only legitimate ‘traditionalist’ philosophy in accordance with our nature as Nordic & Germanic folk. In modern life anxiety, fear, ill motivation and depression in 90% of the population always come back around no matter how positively we think.
The negative emotions are not meant to be ignored but rather there to battle, see them as a necessary adversary in your life, on your path to becoming a more efficient and perfect individual so that you can overcome the attitudes of so many of our afflicted folk and become useful to our people.
A lame man can ride a horse. The handless can be herdsmen. The deaf can fight bravely, A blind man is better than a burned man. But a dead man is of no use. -Stanza 71, Hávamál: The Words of (Har) Odin the High One (Allfather). Post last edited at