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There are three roots connecting Asgard (Gotheim + Vanaheim + Lightalfheim), Midgard (Manheim +Jotunheim + Svartalfheim) and Nilfhem ( Muspelheim + Niflheim + Helheim)
Yggdrasil is represented as a huge Ash tree, it is our GPS Map of the universe that the Divine (precept 2) uses to continuously arrange the world.
To know how to read it, it's to know how to read the world and no longer be "blind" - this is the role of the Wotanists to enlighten his people.
The first root in Niflheim comes from the source of Hvergelmir, (hverr (chakra), "hot spring", and -gelmir, "thunder").
Also known as the "screaming cauldron", the twelve Elivágar rivers Fimbul - Fjorm - Gjöll - Gunnthra - Hrith - Leiptr - Slid - Svaul - Sygil - Thulr - Vithr and Yigr are born from the meeting of lava and ice, of the meeting of Muspelheim and Niflheim.
The water flowing from the antlers of the Eikthymir deer feeds the Hvergelmir spring.
The snake Nidhogg (the sad passions and basic desires, source of our fantasy deliriums of our animal/consumerist, soul) jealously guards this spring and gnaws at its roots.
The second root is born in the Mímir Fountain, located on the Jotunheim where Ginnungagap "Mighty Void" use to be. This fountain contains the source of all wisdom (the mystery of the Runes i.e the runic cabal). It is guarded by a giant and houses the head of the god Mímir who holds the secrets of the entire universe.
Finally, the third root comes from the well of Urd, in Asgard, a well guarded by the three Nornes, feared by the Aesir because they weaves the "Wyrd" destiny, to which even the Aesir is subject. (Vol.20)
Urd "what has happened" - Verdandi "what is happening" - Skuld "what should happen"
The name of this third root: "well's Urd" tells us that it is the preeminent Norne and the most important, without a past a people dies.
This is the secret meaning of Mimir's name: Mim = memory...
Yggdrasil is represented as a huge Ash tree, it is our GPS Map of the universe that the Divine (precept 2) uses to continuously arrange the world.
To know how to read it, it's to know how to read the world and no longer be "blind" - this is the role of the Wotanists to enlighten his people.
The first root in Niflheim comes from the source of Hvergelmir, (hverr (chakra), "hot spring", and -gelmir, "thunder").
Also known as the "screaming cauldron", the twelve Elivágar rivers Fimbul - Fjorm - Gjöll - Gunnthra - Hrith - Leiptr - Slid - Svaul - Sygil - Thulr - Vithr and Yigr are born from the meeting of lava and ice, of the meeting of Muspelheim and Niflheim.
The water flowing from the antlers of the Eikthymir deer feeds the Hvergelmir spring.
The snake Nidhogg (the sad passions and basic desires, source of our fantasy deliriums of our animal/consumerist, soul) jealously guards this spring and gnaws at its roots.
The second root is born in the Mímir Fountain, located on the Jotunheim where Ginnungagap "Mighty Void" use to be. This fountain contains the source of all wisdom (the mystery of the Runes i.e the runic cabal). It is guarded by a giant and houses the head of the god Mímir who holds the secrets of the entire universe.
Finally, the third root comes from the well of Urd, in Asgard, a well guarded by the three Nornes, feared by the Aesir because they weaves the "Wyrd" destiny, to which even the Aesir is subject. (Vol.20)
Urd "what has happened" - Verdandi "what is happening" - Skuld "what should happen"
The name of this third root: "well's Urd" tells us that it is the preeminent Norne and the most important, without a past a people dies.
This is the secret meaning of Mimir's name: Mim = memory...