The Myth "Ragnarök"
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ScribdTranslationsCENTRAL UNIVERSITY OF ECUADOR
METHODOLOGY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES
MAJOR: Sociology
THEME: Myth 'The Ragnarök'
Tifanny Pozo
Miguel Vallejo
PhD. Alexander Amezquita
INTRODUCTION
The end of times is and will be one of the most nuanced themes of the
history of human cultures. It has been observed that every existing culture has created
a similar yet different story, in which they implant characteristics of their
own cultures, singing about unique but similar characteristics to each
history. The Nordics were a society with a rich culture of traditions,
and legends with heroic actions and a strong bond to the earth and the world.
As such, the Vikings speak to us of an end of the world that will be enveloped in
a great final battle, where gods, giants, and the inhabitants of 'Hel' - kingdom
of the dead - led by Loki, will shake 'Yggdrasil' or the tree of
world, and along with this battle, the entire universe will be taken with it. In The
Today, humanity is a society that questions all existence.
Divine, in the same way, every belief must first be supported by
scientific studies, in this way. The end of times is a fact and studies
they have proven it; the moment will come when everything ends and not because of action
and grace of divine entities "at least their existence is not proven."
We will understand the myth, we will share it and we will answer: How a belief
Can it stop being mythological to become a scientific law?
The Myth.
Ragnarök is a myth that tells us about the end of times, where the Æsir
(gods led by Odin) and the Jotuns (led by Loki) will face each other.
faced in a battle, where not only gods, giants, and monsters
they will perish in this apocalyptic conflagration, but almost everything in the universe
will be destroyed.
After the arrival of FIMBULVETR – the winter of winters – it will unleash
all conflicts and the mortals will disappear, the first to succumb will be
the goddess of the Sun, the stars will extinguish and the world will be wrapped in the
darkness. After this event, the earth will tremble, the mountains will fall and
The trees were uprooted. Loki and his son Fenrir, prisoners, will be freed.
by the cataclysm. After the chaos, the dead of Hel will resurrect, the giants and
gods will prepare for battle.
Yggdrasil, the tree of the world, will shake from the root to the crown, the doors
From Valhalla, they will open up and Odin, commanding his great army, will enter into battle.
The gods wrapped in full battle will find themselves separated and each will have a
different opponent. We see Thor, who will enter battle with his old enemy
Jörmungandr the serpent, Thor will use the Mjölnir against the serpent, after a
fierce battle Jörmungandr will not withstand the strong power of the forging hammer
of rays, and Thor victorious after nine steps will fall dead from the poison that the
the serpent spat upon him. Odin will be devoured by Fenrir the wolf, and Vidar who
seeing Odin die in the jaws of the great wolf will break his neck. After
this event Tonio will burn the entire universe extinguishing the sun, the beings of
the earth and the stars will disappear from the skies. The earth will sink into the sea
and everything will be filled with toxic vapors and flames that will reach the skies.
After Armageddon, a new land will rise from the seas, green and just,
a new goddess of the sun, virginal, will be reborn and will take the path of her mother in
the new heaven. Not all gods will perish, the survivors will gather and
those who fell before the Ragnarok begins will emerge from hell and will
they will gather in the Hall of Valhalla, discuss what happened and share their
great wisdom. Not only will they survive such a cataclysm, two humans who
they managed to hide in the deepest part of the wood of Yggdrasil, they will be
the ones responsible for repopulating the human world, known as Líf (life) and
Lífthrasir (who desires or seeks life). They will live in the dew of the new.
world and they will worship their new gods. (Anonymous, Norse Mythology, p. 44)
2. Brief understanding of the Myth.
The Nordics encompass a culture rich in history, legend, traditions, and
technological advances in the field of navigation, on one hand, on the other are
known as bloodthirsty warrior communities, and brave, that
they devastated all the territories, where their eyes and their ambition once again
boots will take them. "They endowed their legends, their gods, with this characteristic, and
to the origin and end that the world would have. With heroic tales where gods, giants
and inhabitants from all nine realms, spread across Yggdrasil or -tree of
world-, they would face each other in a final battle in which the entire universe would be
submerged in chaos and a final judgment." Concluding with this introduction,
We observe that the Nordics go much further speaking of a destruction.
universal, in which stars, and the universe itself will succumb. Let us understand this
In today's form, it can be said that the universe itself will come to an end, not of
the heroic and epic form that the Norse present to us.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Anonymous. (n.d.). Norse Mythology Ragnarök.The provided text is a URL and does not contain translatable content.
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