One of the many innovations that Blavatsky brought to the study of world religions is the integration of esoteric and mystical interpretation into the burgeoning study of Norse mythology. An introduction to her fairly extensive writing on the subject. Note that Blavatsky's interest was of a spiritual nature. She did not give any political interpretations and did not prioritize specific racial interpretations of this topic.
In the Scandinavian Cosmogony — placed by
Professor Max Muller, in point of time, as “far anterior to the Vedas” in the
poem of Voluspa (the song of the prophetess), the Mundane egg is again
discovered in the phantom-germ of the Universe, which is represented as lying
in the Ginnungagap (1)— the cup of illusion (Maya) the boundless
and void abyss. In this world’s matrix, formerly a region of night and
desolation, Nebelheim (2) (the mist-place, the nebular as it is
called now, in the astral light) dropped a ray of cold light which
overflowed this cup and froze in it. Then the Invisible blew a
scorching wind which dissolved the frozen waters and cleared the mist. These , called the streams of Elivagar, (3) distilling in
vivifying drops, fell down and created the earth and the giant Ymir, (4)
who only had “the semblance of man” (the Heavenly man), and the cow, Audhumla
(5) (the “mother” or astral light, Cosmic Soul) from whose udder flowed four
streams of milk (the four cardinal points: the four heads of the four rivers of
Eden, etc., etc.) and which “four” allegorically are symbolized by the cube
in all its various and mystical meanings. (Secret Doctrine, Vol. 1, 387)
1- Ginnungagap boundless and void abyss |
cup of illusion (Maya) |
2- Nebelheim, Nifiheim mist-place |
the nebular as it is called now, in the astral light |
3- streams of Elivagar |
waters (chaos) |
4- Ymir, giant, semblance of man |
Heavenly man |
5 -Audhumla, cow, |
“mother” or astral light, Cosmic Soul |
four streams of milk |
four cardinal points: the four heads of the four rivers of Eden, cube |
(1) There is no obvious reference to an egg here, in Blavatsky's main source, Asgard and the Gods (WilhelmWagner, 1880), p. 22:' Allfather, the Uncreated, the Unseen, dwelt in the depth of the abyss and willed, and what he willed came into being.' Similar to Hiranyagharba myth? Although more recent research equates the egg with the rune Haglaz.
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