Norse Mythology

Cosmogony:

From the abyss of Ginnungagap, where fire kissed ice in eternal twilight, the first giant Ymir stirred and the sacred cow Auðhumla whispered life into being. Out of Ymir’s body, Odin and his brothers shaped the Nine Realms, bound together by the great World Tree, Yggdrasil.

“Three roots stretch in three directions from the ash Yggdrasil:
Hel beneath one,
the giants beneath another,
and humankind beneath the third.”
(The Poetic Edda. Grímnismál)
Thus, the sources of Yggdrasil’s existence are:
  • Hel — chaos, the primordial foundation,
  • The Giants — dwellers of Niflheim (the realm of the Jötnar),
  • Humankind — dwellers of Midgard (the realm of time).

Yggdrasil, the World Tree, is the structure of the system of gods and humans within the Northern pantheon.
The Nine Worlds are interconnected through special channels of energy and information, whose keys are encrypted in the 24 runes. These runes were given to humankind by Odin the All-Father himself.
The Sacred Geometry of the Three Circles represents the universal pattern underlying magical systems

Sacred diagram

of the Magical School

Ks. Menshikov

Within this diagram,

the innermost circle holds humanity;

the second encompasses collective egregores;

the third reveals the realm of gods and pantheons.

Yet all is bound and ruled by the outermost circle —

the sphere of MAGIC itself.

ODIN
Odin stands as the lord of the primal foundation of Order — god of wisdom and the warrior aristocracy, weaving stern bonds between worlds and entrusting each with its sacred task.
FRIGG
Beside him, Frigg guards the essence of Tradition, for Tradition follows where Order commands.
LOKI
Yet where Odin embodies structure, Loki is all that resists it. He shadows Odin not as an enemy, but as his necessary counterpart — the Trickster who exposes flaws, unsettles certainty, and forces growth. If Odin blazes as light, Loki becomes shadow; if Odin sinks into darkness, Loki rises as flame. Together, they form the balance at the heart of the Northern pantheon.
THOR
The unique power of the god Thor is one of the many facets of Odin himself. Thor embodies the might and strength of the Northern pantheon. His origin is the same as that of Odin — he descends from the giants, the primal force born of the Earth. His mother is Fjörgyn, or Jörd, Mother Earth.
HEIMDALL as the White God
He dwells in a place called Himinbjörg, at the very end of the rainbow bridge Bifröst. He is the watchman of the gods, living at the edge of the heavens to guard the bridge against the mountain giants.
(The Prose Edda)
He does not partake in the common “journeys” of the gods; his path is individual and independent — just as he himself is.
NJORD
“In Vanaheim was he born and as a hostage
was given to the Æsir;
yet at the world’s end
he shall return once more
to the home of the Vanir.”
(The Poetic Edda, Vafþrúðnismál)
He was believed to be the god of noble and flawless people. From the perspective of Vanaheim, and thus from Njord’s own, flawless is the one who will never violate the rights of another.
FREYER
Freyr is the function of constant multiplication. His principle is the principle of nature: what does not increase, decreases. For life not to run out, you must always provide a certain gain, allowing the methods of natural selection to be included, where the strongest will survive and give the best offspring.
FREYA - Queen of the Human World
She taught Odin her magic, and in return, she gained the knowledge of the "trot" – the power to create and hold an informational channel in this realm. By pact, Freya shares with Odin the right to be the first to claim the fallen from the battlefield: women who died as warriors with weapons in hand.
HEL
Hel is the mistress of the realm of the dead. She is the guardian of death, of its very function. Born of the giantess Angrboda and the god Loki, she hails from Jotunheim. When the goddess Hel enters your life, she heralds profound, predetermined changes. Not a single god, force, or egregore can change their course.
BALDR
The beloved of the gods, Baldr, was destined to replace Odin as the head of the pantheon.
It is the one who is loved and trusted by the majority who truly rules. Yet Baldr himself did nothing to win this love — nothing to deserve it by deeds rather than by mere existence.
It was Frigg who earned it for him, simply extending her motherly protection over her cherished son.
And so Odin foresaw: Asgard would fall under such a ruler, for his time had not yet come.
Thus Odin decided to remove him — with the help of his blood brother, Loki.
MIMIR and HOENIR
the gods of Asgard who, by agreement, went to Vanaheim in exchange for Njord, Freyr, and Freyja.
Mimir is the god–program of memory: the keeper of remembrance and accumulation of knowledge.Hœnir is the god of processing speed — the quick transmission and reproduction of information.
That is why these two gods ended up together in Vanaheim.
Ragnarök is not the battle itself, but a state of the system in which battle becomes the only way out of a collapsing structure.
“Brothers will fight
and slay each other,
sisters’ children
will defile kinship;
it is harsh in the world,
whoredom rife,
an axe age, a sword age,
shields are riven,
a wind age, a wolf age,
before the world falls;
no man will have
mercy on another.” - Carolyne Larrington, The Poetic Edda

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