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The connection between northern European astronomy and its gods and the tree of life

Each generation of a tribe faced numerous challenges that it had to face successfully, if the nation was to survive. These included clan obligations, religious relationships, field work, story acquisition, etc. To acquire the vital learning needed, cultures put in place sophisticated systems for the tribe to use. These duties were based on his special perspective on the nature of humans and the environment. The ancients considered themselves part of the natural world. They believed that everything came from the same source, so a bear, wolf or fish was our brother or sister and part of the evolutionary tree with a purpose. A bear that is a relative is much more likely to be treated kindly than an object, most urbanized people have become: disconnected from their brother. The members of a tribe shared their lives with all creation in a common world. While examining the natural world, they discovered in nature its wonderful detail of how it worked. Each tribe reproduced the habits of the species it observed so that they lived with the current. In other words, each ‘fine’ of the tribe reproduced the teachings of an animal in tribal life and some began to see the written history of these animal gods also in the stars. All ancient mythology is nothing more than the symbolism of a kind of genealogy of the tree of life.

The Magnificent Celtic World Tree united the Milky Way as its massive roots extended all the way to Earth. It is also what was considered the origin of all peoples, each one symbolized by an animal sitting on the tree. Each tribe was descended from these sister animals or gods or from a tree, river, etc. And just as animals were slaughtered in the circle of life, so were they. But they all came from the World tree, even the winds and other trees. Many tribes chose the tree, animal, constellation or mountain that they would see the most, as their Mother or Father God. Whether the tribe was Japanese, Indian, First Nations, etc., we are all from the same tree. Some tribes had a turtle instead of a tree, but they all mean the same thing. This is what the universe of the ancients understood and the understanding of their powers. We can see with this tree, in the Welsh Celts of the Arthurian cults who used their court warriors to help Culhwch (Kul oo k) to find the ancient animals to search for Mabon: blackbird, deer, owl, eagle and salmon . Ysbaddaden (pronounced – (Is ba thad’n) – meaning Giant Chief.) Gives Culhwch various tasks to win over his daughter Olwen (means “white footprint” because he left white flowers where he walked). In my opinion, by giving the knowledge that the Celts well into Roman times had tree gods from which they descended, Ysbaddaden could have been the world tree, the “main giant” tree, although I cannot prove this theory. The blackbird replaces the hawk in Norse myths.

In the Nordic tree

The Norse settled on the frost giants (being the giants (possibly huge planets) of fire and ice in voice or marine space that break apart and become earth and planets, but they too came from the tree with the bridge of the rainbow (milky way), and in its branches were also the main ancient creation animals similar which included an eagle and his knowledge, a hawk named Vedrfolnir, a squirrel named Ratatosk that runs up and down through the ash tree and carries Malicious messages between the eagle and Nidhogg. Also Four Deer run in the ash branches that feed on the foliage and represent the four directions. Their names are: Dain, Dvalin, Dunyr, Durathror. Again, all these constellations can be found in the sky.The hawk sits atop the eagles head in the sky.

Dain (inactive) – One of the 4 deer constellations in the branches of the World Tree, an elf name that probably gave birth to elves.

Dvalin (Sleeper) – One of the 4 constellations of deer, a dwarf name and the second smallest deer is the ancestor of the dwarves.

Duneyr (floppy ears), the second largest deer, could be the ancestor of any mythical creature that had floppy ears.

Durathror (lazy beast): the largest of the deer. Another long-forgotten constellation.

Ratatosk (gnaw-tooth) – the constellation of squirrels. It is the main star of Cassiopeia, with its feet, body, and two stars for its tail visible.

Geirrod: the constellation of the eagle, without a name among the Nordics but whose name we find as “Garuda” in Hindu mythology. Some called it the swan. (We call it Elyrch (which means swan in Pwkatta – pronounced Eleerpuh)

Vedrfolnir (parched by the wind): constellation of the falcon on the head of the eagle.

Nidhogg (poisonous biter): constellation of a serpent at the foot of the root of Yggdrasill. Some say the constellation is the same as Scorpius, which resides right at the base of the tree’s root. But I read many others that say that the snake is like coiled energy and can move up and down the tree. It is the bridge to the knowledge of other worlds that sheds its skin and begins anew in each phase of learning.

In a poem called “Grimnismal”, there are four deer in the lower roots and four deer in the upper branches, making 8 turns of the wheel. An eagle at the top of the branches and a snake at the bottom. (The eagle now looks like Cygnus the swan in summer.)

One tells of the thunder god Thor helping the hero Aurvandil by carrying him in a basket from the frozen north. Along the way, his toe slipped and froze, so Thor broke it and threw it into the sky to form a star.

An Anglo-Saxon (Celtic / Scandinavian tribe) version of Aurvandil is Earandel, which means “morning star”.

A giant named Thiassi, who took the goddess Idunn to reach the youth of her eternal apples, was killed by the gods after they rescued her. To atone for this fact, Odin took the old giant’s eyes and threw them into the sky as punishment. These stars could only be twin stars Castor and Pollux.

Other associations of myths with constellations

Grendel: In mythical terms, he is a main character who disappears under a lake or sea, which implies that he is a constellation that sometimes slides below the celestial equator. From the northern regions of Saxony, such as England, a good proportion of the constellation Scorpio is below the horizon, and one of the zodiacal constellations. Checking the position, I found that Scorpius’s position makes it look like he’s drowning in the mythical waters. Scorpius is also a clawed creature that loses a claw and its shoulder in the sky, like the same in the Beowulf story.

Grendel’s Mother: There is a small constellation adjacent to Scorpius called Lupus, the wolf. He also ‘drowns’ in the mythical waters just before Scorpius. If we read carefully, there is a reference to her being a “wolf swimmer”. Lupus has associations with Pan and the Fauns, and in Roman culture, its festival survived into Christian times.

Vidofnir – rooster / rooster perching on the highest branch of the World Tree, most likely Polaris, the Pole Star, or magnetic north. It is golden and shines like a storm. An immortal guard who watches over the world. A symbol of the advertised ‘solar fire’. On earth, his totem sings at dawn for the victory of light and the return of life. Among the Germanic tribes he is a spiritual guide. This same ‘son’ is also Arthur, the pole star who has a cart or a plow. If we change the V for W we get “Widofnir”, which means (Weaver of the winds), the name of the skies of Vanir, considered as the Norse deity of fertility.

Horses of many cultures

Sun / Star Horses – In Edda prose, most are described as the mounts of various gods. Horses seem to involve the sun and the moon chasing or leading the sun to the next zodiac sign or adventure. Sleipnir (son of Svadilfari) is the most famous of the horses only because it was Odin’s mount. Goti is Gunnarr’s horse. Grani was Sigurdr’s horse. Gulltopr (also called “Gold-Top”) was Heimdallr’s horse. Hoof-Tosser, Kertr, Slangvir were others. Vakr was Morn’s horse. All-Bright, Alsvidhr, Arvakr, Early-Wake, Gladr, Gullfaxi, Sheen-Mane, Shining-Mane, and Skinfaxi. There are also nocturnal horses and some of the names mentioned are Fjarsvartnir – Frosty-Mane.

These can go in any sign, as they are always dragging the God of the sun or the God of the night star in their course. They can be legends of a single tribe. So you can really put any animal for each ‘fine’ (smaller groups are part of a larger tribe but they also function as a separate unit).

Auriga, the Auriga or Wagoner in the early days the Wainman, is the French Cocher, the Italian Cocchiere and the German Fuhrmann. Its key star was considered a goat, and sometimes a unicorn, then the myths went to the main constellation Capricorn, the Turks had a mule.

The Sacred Horse is a powerful symbol of intelligence, speed, grace, strength, virility, and fertility. It was once seen in the constellation that is now called Pegasus. Called Epona to some Celtic tribes and so on. His flowing mane that represents the bright rays of the sun as the Horse is a beast that carries the chariot of the Sun, or that of the Moon, through the sky. According to Kristian Kristiansen, in an article called Rock Art and Religion, horses appear in many rock carvings from the Bronze Age that show ancient scenes of fertility rites. He / She believes that the horses were the symbolic twins that would be both ships and horses, night (ship) and day (horses). The priests consulted the horses to decipher their movements and sounds. Horses were held sacred in many temples until Christianity which later, as we see with mocking humor in the movie “A Knights Tale”, would desecrate a church. The church tried to cover up many things from the pagan past.

Arthurian Horses – Spumador (“the one who makes foam”, foam and cloud of the sea); an Arthur horse.

Bel Joeor – horse – Tristan / Passe-Brewel or Passebreul horse – Tristan.

Berring – horse – Lancelot. Long-necked chestnut horse (live steed of Great Britain) – Kai (Kay).

Cloven-hoofed horse (horse plundered from Great Britain) – Owain (Yvain).

Drudwyn Horse – Mabon / Gwynn Dun Mane – Mabon. Dun-Gray (Great Britain’s Pack Horse) – Rhydderch Hael.

Gringalet, Gringolets, Gringuljete horse with red ears – Lahelin, Orilus, Urjan, Lischois and Gawain.

Llamrei – Arthur.

Caw of Scotland – Pale Yellow Stud Horse (Awarded Horse of Great Britain) – Lleu.

Passelande – Arthur. Lluagor (the host’s opener) – Caradawg’s horse.

Arthurian. The word “Nightmares” is a name derived from the Celts who thought they had been brought by a visiting horse goddess like Epona: night, moon, mystery, and magic.

Nordic horses: Gyllir, Blakkr, Hamskerpir, Silfrintoppr, Hrafn, Sinir, Amfaxi, Skeidbrimir, Hœnir, Gardrofa, Glaumr, Tjaldari, Glenr, Lungr, Valr, Marr, Vigg.

In most Celtic myths, horses are either black or white, providing more evidence of night and day or the dark and light half of the wheel of the year.

So, in conclusion, we see in many cultures that whether they are deer, birds or other animals, they represent the four directions. Even a First Nations tribe demonstrated this in an opening ceremony at the 2010 Winter Olympics in BC Canada: each animal represented one of the Four Directions constellations, the White Buffalo (north), the Eagle (east). , the Wolf (south) and the bear (west).

By Brahva Cwmevos

Copyright April 2, 2012

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This article came out of my head, but over the years I have been influenced by the writings of Kristian Kristiansen, Eddas, and other Celtic scholars such as Mathew and Caitlin, Peter Ellis, JeanMarkale, etc.