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20 May 2024
Here some meaningful poetry verses that I find interesting to have at hand. Remarks and description that could help for better understanding are added.
Description: Sigrdrífa counsels Sigurðr concerning how to use málrúnar in the rune-lore section of Sigrdrífumál (Poetic Edda) .
Description: The Words of Odin the High One (Poetic Edda) .
Description: A poem about Karma and correspondence, focusing on how important is the Feeling we have concerning anything, for upon that depends the nature of the atmosphere, for upon that depends the atmosphere we create for ourselves .
Description: The ancient Christians Gnosticism insisted that genuine truth cannot be discovered by valuing one polarity above the another, “but instead by making the two one”. We unite ourselves by acting the same on the outside from the way we feel on the inside, in accordance with our outer actions what our inner soul urges us to do.
Description: A lost second-century Christian scripture recovered at Nag Hammadi. These religious disciplines appear to have the same goal: conquering death through inner wholeness, integrity, and perfection. Never the less, Despite all the different religions intended to promote spiritual wholeness and integrity, humanity’s masses still found themselves trapped in a down-ward spiral of unconscious self-deceit, self-betrayal, and self-destruction.
Description: As a hatchling, Jörmungandr was cast into the sea by Odin, and in its adulthood became an enormous creature with a body so large that it wrapped around the world, forming an ouroboros. Interestingly, the lan-guage used to describe it suggests that it could be perceived not just as acreature, but as a force. Lines 46–53 of Völuspá provide a insight.
Description: The root of Yggdrasil that reaches down into Niflheim ends at Hvergelmir. Old Norse for “Bubbling Stream”. In Grimnismál, one of the poems in the Poetic Edda, it is identified as the source of all waters in the nine worlds and the place where liquid from the horns of Eikthyrnir, a stag that resides on the top of Valhalla, falls. Those all waters in the nine worlds begin in the dark depths of Niflheim.
Description: Is about a romantic myth of two young people destined for one but seemingly separated by an impassable gulf. He seeks the grave of his mother Gróa, a wise woman, and wakes her from her death sleep to ask for the help she had promised to give him and rescue his bride from the Giant-Land.