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Yggdrasil the tree of life. Yggdrasil in Norse Mythology Yggdrasil: The Tree of Life In the middle of Asgard, where the gods lives, is Yggdrasil.

Yggdrasil the tree of life

Yggdrasil is the tree of life. It is an eternal green Ash tree; the branches stretches out over all of the nine worlds, and extend up and above the heavens. Yggdrasil is carried by three enormous roots. An 1847 depiction of the Norse Yggdrasil as described in the Icelandic Prose Edda. The third root from Yggdrasil goes down to Niflheim, close to the well Hvergelmir. The three Norns There are three Norns who lives at the well Urd. The bragging of the rooster is a wakeup call for all humans and gods.

The Norns of fate Author of page content Martin Højbjerg. World tree. From Northern Antiquities, an English translation of the Prose Edda from 1847.

World tree

Painted by Oluf Olufsen Bagge. World tree. Russian ornament. 19th century. Norse mythology[edit] In Norse mythology, Yggdrasil is the world tree. Siberian culture[edit] The world tree is also represented in the mythologies and folklore of Northern Asia and Siberia. The symbol of the world tree is also common in Tengriism, an ancient religion of Mongols and Turkic peoples.

The world tree is visible in the designs of the Crown of Silla, Silla being one of the Three Kingdoms of Korea. Mesoamerican culture and Indigenous cultures of the Americas[edit] Among pre-Columbian Mesoamerican cultures, the concept of "world trees" is a prevalent motif in Mesoamerican mythical cosmologies and iconography. A common theme in most indigenous cultures of the Americas is a concept of directionality (the horizontal and vertical planes), with the vertical dimension often being represented by a world tree. Lemuria. Lemuria Lemuria, or Mu, is a mythical continent that allegedly was located in the Pacific Ocean area or the Pacific Ring of Fire.

Lemuria

Today we read about accelerating natural disasters in that area - earthquakes, tsunamis - dormant volcanoes becoming active - as the tectonic plates continue to shift. This takes us to creation myths - thousands of flood stories around the world - the destruction of a continent and civilization by water, and the creation of something new to replace it in the cycles of time by the consciousness hologram that creates the illusion that this is all real. Japan: The Yonaguni Ruins are believed by some researchers to connect with Lemuria The islands within the Ring of Fire have ancient monuments, petroglyphs, and caves that hold clues to one of many ancient civilizations that once existed there - the most famous Easter Island.

Samoans speak of a place called Bolutu. Lemuria (continent) The idea of Lemuria was subsequently incorporated into the proto-New Age philosophy of Theosophy and subsequently into general fringe belief.

Lemuria (continent)

Accounts of Lemuria here differ. All share a common belief that a continent existed in ancient times and sank beneath the ocean as a result of a geological, often cataclysmic, change, such as pole shift, which such theorists anticipate will destroy and transform the modern world. Other scientists hypothesized that Lemuria had extended across parts of the Pacific oceans, seeking to explain the distribution of various species across Asia and the Americas. The Lemuria theory disappeared completely from conventional scientific consideration after the theories of plate tectonics and continental drift were accepted by the larger scientific community. Some Tamil writers such as Devaneya Pavanar have associated Lemuria with Kumari Kandam, a legendary sunken landmass mentioned in the Tamil literature, claiming that it was the cradle of civilization. Lemuria. The last surviving LEMURS exist on Madagascar.This is why the ancient land tying India and Australia together, that sank incrementally over time, is referred to as LEMURIA.

Lemuria

Myriads of ancient writings from the South Seas, and the ancient Tamil writings on palm tree bark still exist protected underground in the Vatican archives, having been pillaged from various cultures and transported to Rome by order of various popes. The Tamil bark writings in Southern India tell of the gigantic Southern part of India which used to connect to Australia cataclysmically sinking incrementally over a long period of time.

This was ancient Lemuria. Modified after a map in "Ancient World", North Mahalingam. International Society for Investigation of Ancient Civilization. 101 Mount Road, Guindy, Madras, India 50032 ALTERNATIVE THREE (in RealVideo) AIDS is Germ Warfare. Antediluvian. List of mythological places.