When we left off Midgard was finally created By Odin and his brothers but there remains much work to do in the nine realms. After being given the idea by the brilliant @wisewoof your humble author has added some music to enjoy if you wish.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pm7QtSXNcno&t=325s
Read [PART1](https://steemit.com/writing/@lordsnek/postcards-from-asgard-retelling-the-norse-myths) [PART2](https://steemit.com/writing/@lordsnek/postcards-from-asgard-part-2-life-comes-from-death)
The gods were not yet satisfied with their creation, as the world remained a dark and gloomy place despite the great expansive skies and the gods were obliged to create the sun and the moon. This would make a less dreary place for man to live. They would also create day and night to make his time on earth more comfortable and productive. By day he could work and farm or hunt and fish, by night he could rest and regain his energy for the next day.
Though the gods were creating this world for man, the giants would be called upon for this task. Night was a beautiful giantess the daughter of Norvi with long flowing black hair shiny like the ravens wing. Her first husband was a giant called darkness, and the had a baby they named space. Her second husband was shrouded in mystery, known simply as The Other. Although there are many theories to his true Identity. To him Night would bare a daughter whom they would call Earth. After her birth The Other soon vanished. Night was left alone but would in time take a third husband, Named Dawn. He was blonde haired and beautiful. They would also have a son the would call day, and the gods decided to divide each turning of the earth into 24 hours and divide that equally by two giving half to Night And half to Day, giving them each a chariot and a pair of horses. The horses were so fast that when they ran the chariots would lift off into the sky.
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Night and Day are joined in their endless gallop, as the gods decided to create the sun and moon to ease their loneliness. At first Sun and moon did not move in the sky and could be seen together whether it was night or day. Then one day A giant's descendant named Mundilfary, which means world turner, had two children who were incredibly beautiful and he named them Sol and Mani, after the sun and moon. Mundilfary claimed they shined more brilliantly than all other things in creation except those two celestial beings. The gods took offense to this and punished Mundilfary, as the gods were often inclined to do in these situations. They took his children from him and sent them to work in the heavens.
The girl Sol was given the task of steering the horses that pulled the chariot of day. The gods placed a A man to shield Sol and the horses from the chariot of the sun so that they would not be burned. This Man was called Svalinn or cold. The boy Mani’s job was harder, as the moon would have to wax and wane so the moon snatched two children, Bil and Yuki from a mountaintop, where they were fetching water from a well sacred to the gods to help him in his tasks. As Sol and Mani soar free and happy in their punishment. Each day they are relentlessly persued by two wolves Skoll meaning “Treachery” and Hati meaning “Hate”. They are the spawn of Fenri the great wolf of Ragnorok And when the twilight of the gods comes the wolves will swallow them whole.
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Ragnarok is inevitable, And even the gods must accept it, as not even they are immune to the tappestry woven by the Norns. The three strange sisters of destiny. Man was born from this fear of Ragnorok, Odin would create men as warriors to serve his great army to fight the giants and monsters when this day comes.
One day when the earth was still young Odin and his brothers Ville and Ve were walking along the beach when they happened to find to tree trunks on the beach. As the sun began to set they had an Idea, Ville lifted up one of the logs, it was an ash. He placed it on end and began to fill it with golden sand from the beach. Ve did the same with the other one, it was an elm. Odin then began to carve and shape them. One into the shape of a man and the other a shape of a woman. Upon finishing he breathed into them the breath of spirit. And they came to life, The man he would call Ask, the woman Embla. And from them all of mankind eould be born, unto them were given Midgard.
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At the same time As Midgard and Jotunheim were being created Odin and his brothers also created homes for themselves. Odins home would be called Asgard which means “Home of the Aesir”. There would live Odin and his wife Frig, their children would be called the Aesir. It was built seperate from Midgard and Jotunheim But would be connected to them by the magical rainbow bridge called Bifrost. Only the gods could traverse the Bifrost as a mortal would surely burn. Ville and Ve lived in asgard for a time and their children were called the Vanir. Until there came a long and bloody war between the Aesir and the Vanir Not much is known about this war but in the end Ville and Ve left Asgard and made there home in Vanaheim to the east of Asgard. Only three of the Vanir remained in Odins realm.
There is a world right next to Asgard, it is called Aflheim Home of the Light Elves, they would be considered the guardian angels. They are ruled by the god Freyer, minor gods in themselves with dominion over nature and fertility. And the final of the nine realms, Helheim, the realm of the dead, where the dead go who have not died valiantly in battle. Here rules the goddess Hel, where she builds her army and great ship for the final battle of good and evil… Ragnorok the twilight of the gods.
That's it for the creation Myth Now I will move on to the stories of the gods. Thanks for reading!
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