Creation from vapor-produced primeval giant. Vapors from half-frozen primeval river origin of giant Ymir, from whom universe is created

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Creation from vapor-produced primeval giant. Vapors from half-frozen primeval river origin of giant Ymir, from whom universe is created.

Mythological motifs. · Cosmogony and cosmology. · The universe. · Creation of the universe. · Spontaneous creation of universe. · view the constellation · filed as A621.1

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Icel.MacCulloch Eddic 327ff.

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Filed under Universe from congealed vapor.

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Universe from body of slain giant. Ymir. (Cf. A621.1.)

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