Motif
world fashioned from a primordial body
world_fashioned_from_a_primordial_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 / GRIMNISMOL / THE BALLAD OF GRIMNIR / INTRODUCTORY NOTE; lines 3934-4067 confidence: high
The world is fashioned from Ymir’s body: earth from flesh, ocean from blood, hills from bones, trees from hair, heavens from skull, Mithgarth from eyebrows, and clouds from brain.
The earth, ocean, hills, trees, heavens, Mithgarth, and clouds are made from the flesh, blood, bones, hair, skull, eyebrows, and brain of Ymir.
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