The oak is the favored tree of thunder gods all over the world, such as Zeus, Thor, and Perun. This is due in part to the oak's strength and power, but also because it is more often struck by lightning than other trees due to its height and high moisture content.
🎨 Lan Nghiem-Phu #MythologyMonday#mythology#folklore#tree
The square brackets around the hashtags followed by regular brackets and URLs should be interpreted by the client as URLs with link text whatever is in the square brackets - markdown is how it is formatted to do this.
Strangely, viewing the post here on blahaj.zone, the tree and moss links do display like that, but lichen does not - I suspect because the length of the title (including full URL links) exceeds the allowed title length so it stops parsing the text.
In #Norse cosmology, there is no such thing as "the world".
Creation myths explain how parts of the cosmos were created (e.g., the sky is the skull of Ymir¹) and that several worlds are separated from each other. To be precise, there are nine.
Shamans can travel with the soul, but it should be physically possible too. Often, the methods described are quite strange, but fascinating:
• Walking on the rainbow
• Diving in some pools of water
• Walking in the dark
• Through memorial barrows²
• Traversing inaccessible forests and mountains
Also, gods have such powers that can break the barriers among them.
It was said, for example, that the lightning was #Thor striking Jötnar (the giants) with its hammer, and the thunder was the sound of the creature falling apart.
Our world, thus the reality we see, is called Midgard³, inhabited only by humans.
Interestingly, the other worlds don't have a specific direction (e.g. to the West) – they're just "far away".
At the center of Norse cosmology there is Yggdrasil⁴, a huge #tree (maybe an ash tree) which connects all the worlds. Its name could mean "Horse of the Terrible One" because Odin used its branches to quickly move among the worlds.
Here is a quick list:
Asgard – home of the Æsir gods
Jotunheim –home of the evil giants
Alfheim – home of the elves, (never described in any resource)
Nidavellir – where dwarves lived
Vanaheim – home of Vanir gods (never described!)
Hel – the underworld
Muspelheim – a world made of Fire
Niflheim – a world made of Ice
Midgard – our world, the only one not part of the "Otherworld"
It is extremely confusing, and in the past, people who tried to join the lines were confused, too! Here is a scheme from XIX century, which does not help at all 😅
Ich habe aus Spaß 6 Kerne einer Zitrone in die Erde gesetzt. Nach 8 Tagen sind die ersten 3 Bäumchen ausgetrieben (Bild 1). Jeden weiteren Tag kamen weitere dazu. Jetzt habe ich einen Zitronenbaumwald 🌳 🍋 👍.
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Kleines Update. Allen Pflanzen geht es gut. In den letzten Wochen hatten wir hier relativ wenig Sonnenlicht, deswegen hat sich der Wachstum etwas verlangsamt. Ich bin dennoch sehr zufrieden. 😎 👍