Motif
Cosmos fashioned from a primordial giant's body
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A motif of the Primordial Sacrifice and Dismemberment family, within the sub-family World Made from a Primordial Body. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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norse
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The Younger Edda; Also called Snorre's Edda, or The Prose Edda CHAPTER III. / OF THE HIGHEST GOD. / CHAPTER IV. / THE CREATION OF THE WORLD.; lines 1282-1339 confidence: high
Har says the sons of Bor took Ymer's body into Ginungagap and made the earth from him: seas and lakes from blood, earth from flesh, rocks from bones, and stones and pebbles from teeth, jaws, and broken bones.
The passage repeatedly states that earth, waters, rocks, stones, sky, Midgard, trees, and clouds are made from Ymer's body parts.
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