Motif
world fashioned from a primordial being's body
world_fashioned_from_a_primordial_being_s_body
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 Poetic Edda NOTES / VAFTHRUTHNISMOL / THE BALLAD OF VAFTHRUTHNIR / INTRODUCTORY NOTE; lines 3168-3429 confidence: high
"Out of Ymirs flesh was fashioned the earth"; mountains from bones, sky from skull, ocean from blood.
Earth, mountains, sky, and ocean are made from Ymir's flesh, bones, skull, and blood.
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