Chapter 9
Yggdrasill & Ragnarok

“There is a mill which grinds by itself, swings of itself, and scatters the dust a hundred versts away. And there is a golden pole with a golden cage on top which is also the Nail of the North. And there is a very wise tomcat which climbs up and down this pole. When he climbs down, he sings songs; and when he climbs up, he tells tales.”

Legend of the Ostyaks of the Siberian Irtysh River Valley.

This information about the Yggdrasill Nidhoggr came from the following URL:

http://www.polenth.demon.co.uk/myth/favmyth.html#N  

“NIDHOGGR is a serpent from Norse mythology. It lives at the foot of the cosmic tree, Yggdrasil (or Igrasil). Yggrasil has three roots. The second root ends in Niflheim, the land of mist. It is near here that Nidhoggr lives, gnawing at the root. He also eats corpses. The squirrel, Ratatosk, scurries between Nidhoggr and the eagle in the branches of the tree, trying to stir up discord between them. Related Dragons: Góin; Grábak; Grafvitnir; Grafvölud; Móin; Ofnir; Sváfnir”

This “squirrel” that scurries up and down The Cosmic Tree is the same “animal” as the “tomcat” in the Siberian Ostyak Legend, climbing up and down the “golden pole” or “sampo”. If the “squirrel” is trying to “sow discord”, then this “discord” must reflect the same noisy songs and tales that the “tomcat” tries to convey as it climbs up and down. It is absolutely impossible to know exactly what this “squirrel” or “tomcat” symbolizes without first once again analyzing The Cosmic Tree for ourselves, with our own eyes. Unfortunate, but true. Time itself will reveal all, if anyone is left alive to pay any attention to it. In Alaska and other parts of North America, a small squirrel-like animal is often carved onto Totem Poles. See Illustrations 23-24.

Illustration 23: Alaska Totem Pole (squirrel, tomcat or monkey?)  -  Illustration 24: Alaska Totem Pole

 

“A very wise tomcat climbs up and down this pole.
When he climbs down, he sings songs…”
                                                                                                             Siberian Ostyak Legend
 

The Totem Pole is analogous to the Rainbow Bridge or Treetrunk Tether to Planet X Nibiru, and the Thunderbird atop the Totem Pole represents what Eurasians and others symbolized as a Winged Disk. Alaska is far north like Siberia. Thus, the Indians of Alaska, like the Siberians, would have noticed this animal-like “elevator” moving up and down the “golden pole”! And the Mayas remember this “structure” also as a Totem Pole climbed by a “monkey”. See Illustrations 25-26.

The Nordic Land of Niflheim undoubtedly refers to that portion of the Southern Hemisphere that is unaffected by the presence of the Night Sun Hyperborea. In the Teutonic tradition there is a God named Niflhel. It is my contention that this god is the equivalent of the Nibiruan Baron Ninurta, Sumerian Ningirsu, Egyptian Ptah, Greek Hephaestus, Roman Vulcan/Typhon, Russian Krukis, Celtic Cú Chulainn and Japanese Shina-Tsu-Hiko. And it is certainly no coincidence that linguistically these words resemble the Biblical Nefilim.

N F L M
N F L (H) M
N F L (H) L

Such an unusual word could not have arisen “spontaneously” in three different cultures and languages! And it should be noted here that the Teutonic pantheon contains a Goddess Hel, whom I have equated with Nibiruan Duchess Ereshkigal, Goddess of the Underworld. In fact, it is entirely possible that our English word Hell comes from the name of this Teutonic Goddess Hel, who reigned over Hell. What’s more, Duchess “Hel” was the consort of Duke Nergal (Hades, Pluto, Beelzebub), who was in charge of the South African goldmines in Tuat, land of darkness, before the operation was turned over to Prince Enki Poseidon and moved to South America. Duke Dumuzi, who was the chief assistant of Duke Nergal, ferried slaves from the Middle East to the South African goldmines, the pits of Hell.


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Provided below are some excerpts from the Finnish Creation Myth Kalevala. Considering how different Finnish is from English, the rhyme and rhythm of this translation are worthy of note, as this was certainly not an easy task. The Kalevala in its entirety is quite long, but these excerpts pertain to the idea of a cyclical Cosmic Tree.

Near where Osmo’s field is bordered,
On the crown the Moon is shining,
In the boughs the Bear is resting…
Then the smith his steps arrested,
In amazement at the pine-tree,
With the Great Bear in the branches,
And the Moon upon its summit…

Here it is referred to as a pine tree. The “Moon” on the summit would refer to Planet X Nibiru, nestling in the branches of the tree alongside the Constellation of the Great Bear, or Big Dipper.

Then the smith, e’en Ilmarinen
Journeyed forth, and hurried onwards,
On the tempest forth he floated,
On the pathway of the breezes,
Over Moon, and under Sunray,
On the shoulders of the Great Bear

Slow-Motion Doomsday
Till he reached the Halls of Pohja,
Baths of Sariola the gloomy…

In other words, the blacksmith was taken up to Planet X Nibiru by either the “squirrel”, the “tomcat” or the “monkey”. Thus, this animal-looking object was probably an elevator or some other form of transport up and down the golden pole, the skinny pine treetrunk, the electromagnetic tether beam.

And a heifer then rose upwards,
With her horns all golden-shining,
With the Bear-stars on her forehead;
On her head appeared the Sun-disc.

These “horns” are probably the same objects as the “wings” of the “Winged Disk” extending outwards from the central Sun disk. On the cover design of this book, the tethered planetoids underneath the Winged Disk look a bit like the udders of a heifer, and the “wings” somewhat resemble the ears or horns of a heifer. Perhaps these “wings” are not entirely stationary but “flap” upwards and downwards, like a bird in flight, giving rise to the idea of a “flying serpent” or a “witch riding a broomstick”.

And the cow was fair to gaze on,
But of evil disposition;
Always sleeping in the forest,
On the ground her milk she wasted…
Now rejoiced the Crone of Pohja,
And conveyed the bulky Sampo,
To the rocky hills of Pohja,
And within the Mount of Copper,
And behind nine locks secured it.
There it struck its roots around it,
Fathoms nine in depth that measured,
One in Mother Earth deep-rooted,
In the strand the next was planted,
In the nearest mount the third one…
Day by day he sang unwearied,
Night by night discoursed unceasing,
Sang the songs of bygone ages,
Hidden words of ancient wisdom,
Songs which all the children sing not,
All beyond men’s comprehension,
In these ages of misfortune,
When the race is near its ending…

The preceding lines seem to be referring to the establishment of The Cosmic Tree, possibly recorded not long after 1587 BCE. But then the following lines describe the detethering and departure of Planet X Nibiru 900 years later. And note above how he sang and discoursed as he worked. That reflects the idea that the tomcat sings songs on his way down and tells tales on his way up the golden pole.

And began his songs of magic,
For the last time sang them loudly,
Sang himself a boat of copper,
With a copper deck provided.
In the stern himself he seated,
Sailing o’er the sparkling billows,
Still he sang as he was sailing:
“May the time pass quickly o’er us,
One day passes, comes another,
And again shall I be needed.
Men will look for me and miss me,
To construct another Sampo,
And another harp to make me,
Make another Moon for gleaming,
And another Sun for shining.
When my Sun and Moon are absent,
In the air no joy remaineth.”


“My cloak I shed in the light of my reflection.
My grand entrance I make after the serpent appears.
Then they will know me.”


Old Greek Samian Riddle



http://virtual.finland.fi/finfo/english/muinueng.html


The Cosmos was divided into three zones: the upper world, the middle world and the underworld. This tripartite structure is one of the oldest north Eurasian folk beliefs. The three cosmic planes were joined together by the cosmic tree, the
cosmic column or the cosmic mountain located in the centre of the world. The top of the column was attached to the North Star, about which the heavens rotated. The Finns also likened the North Star to a hinge and spoke of the “heavenly hinge”, likewise the “north pin”, the “celestial keeper”, the “pole star” and the “heavenly pole”.
 



The following excerpt comes from The Celestial Ship Of The North by Miss E. Valentia Straiton, first published around 1900. You can find this complete text in PDF format HERE. Both King David and the Prophet Isaiah would have been alive at the time of the previous Cosmic Tree, so it is not surprising that they mention it in this manner.


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Occult science proves that the founders of all root races have been connected with the North Pole. Gods, religions, beliefs, myths, have all come from there. No wonder we find it alluded to as the “Cradle of Man”, for when the Pole star energizes the earth’s axis humanity receives an upward urge or spiritual rebirth. The ancient topography of the nature of the Arctic and Antarctic regions of which the ancients had clear understanding is unquestionably accurate.

“If we hold at present only to the astronomical and geographical significance it may be found that the ancients knew the topography and nature of the Arctic and Antarctic regions better than any of our modern astronomers.”

[Blavatsky, H.P.—The Secret Doctrine]

Early astronomers divided the heavens into three great divisions. The point called the Mountain, denominated the Highest, was the middle of the first division which always seemed to remain above the horizon, and stationary. It was made the seat of the Empire, whose monarch, from his throne, could behold the whole world and every nation night or day. This was the Great Judgment Seat, from which even unto this day, at certain periods in world changes, proceeds the powerful Justice Ray of a Balancing Manifestation.


Henry Melville in Veritas very fittingly speaks of the “Pole Star” as the rock of ages.

“‘Trust ye in the Lord forever; for the Lord Jehovah is the rock of ages.’

Isaiah xxiv, 4.

This Polar star is the rock, or Mount Olympus of the Latins, which was so high that no bird could fly to the top, nor were clouds ever seen on its summit. This Polar Star is the Mount Meru of the Buddhists, and the Mount Zion of the Hebrews.

‘They that trust in the Lord shall be as Mount Zion, which cannot be removed, but abideth forever.’

Psalm cxxv, 1.

David says, ‘Lead me to the rock that is higher than I.’ Psalm lxi, 1. From our world nothing can appear higher than the Polar star which is the pivot or point of axis on which the earth performs its diurnal and annular motion. David exclaims,

‘thus saith the Lord, the heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool; where is the house that ye built unto me? And where is the place of my rest!’

Isaiah lxvi, 1.

Cephas, or Cepheus, means rock. Cepheus is seated in the highest heaven, and he has Mount Olympus, or the Pole Star, for his footstool.” Celestial Astrology and Astronomy are spoken of as lost sciences, and we are told that until the position of the dark planets is known, astrology can not become an exact science, yet it can and will again be raised to its former sublimity. The North Pole of the heavens was represented as the Mountain, the South Pole as the Pit. The Mountain and the Pit explain the meaning of Helion and Acheron, which, according to S.A. Mackey, were made use of in astronomical calculations by the ancients. Helion or the Sun, was the Sun in his highest, Acheron was usually translated as Hell, or the last condition or state of the Sun in its disappearance among the Southern constellations. Could we look down from the North Pole to the South Pole into the great abyss, the point of our vision might lead us very quickly to the discerning of a Christian Heaven and Hell, for many an absurd misinterpretation has been generated concerning these primordial parents, the Poles.

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In November 1972, an acquaintance lent me the book Atlantis: The Antediluvian World by Ignatius Donnelly. That is what originally started me on my long journey into deciphering ancient legends regarding “cosmic cataclysms”. Soon thereafter, I was able to locate and purchase Donnelly’s other book Ragnarok: The Age Of Fire And Gravel. These books were written at the end of the 19th Century, around the same time that Miss E. Valentia Straiton wrote her book The Celestial Ship Of The North, so one has to read them in the context of the science of the times in which they were published. I have no idea if either of Donnelly’s books was widely translated into other languages, as were the books of Dr. Immanuel Velikovsky, or remains in print in English for purchase today; but at least in large-city American libraries, these books should still be available for borrowing and reading. Following below are some excerpts from Ragnarok. They should be read and considered in light of all else that pertains to this mystery of The Cosmic Tree.


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INTRODUCTION
By Leslie Shepard
London, England, 1970


More than half a century before Immanuel Velikovsky’s best-selling Worlds In Collision, Ignatius Donnelly’s Ragnarok put forward the same basic concept that a comet passed close to or struck the earth in ancient times, causing catastrophic changes remembered only dimly in mythologies, scriptural history, and the ideas of divine judgment upon a sinful world.


Undoubtedly, the thousands of readers who were captivated by Velikovsky’s book will want to study this equally startling forerunner of the comet-disaster hypothesis, and to compare the two works, with their different approaches and scientific speculations.


It takes a bold thinker to challenge orthodox science and, bearing in mind the sensation created by Velikovsky in 1950, it is easy to imagine the tremendous impact of Donnelly’s Ragnarok in 1883. Like Velikovsky, Donnelly was not a trained scientist, and today it seems incredible that an Irish-American farmerpolitician could have developed such a strikingly original theme in the nineteenth century, and have supported it with such powerful and convincing arguments. Today his books have been largely passed over. Others took up the subjects he pioneered, and some of his arguments are no longer fashionable in the light of twentieth-century science. But the present book deserves a fresh hearing following the brilliant revival of the comet-disaster theme by Immanuel Velikovsky, and it is instructive to compare similarities and differences in the two treatments of the same basic theme.


The word “Ragnarök” comes from Norse mythology and describes the cataclysmic Twilight of the Gods that convulsed the earth during a Titanic conflict between gods and giants.


Less scientific than Velikovsky, and working within the limitations of the science of his time, Donnelly nevertheless produced the pioneer statement of the cometcatastrophe theme, now of value chiefly for its inspired presentation of legends and mythologies from Hindus, Persians, Britons, Chinese, Greeks, Scandinavians, Central Americans, North and South American Indians, Aztecs, Toltecs, Quiches, Peruvians, Arabians, Babylonians, and Egyptians, with terrifying stories of disaster by fire, hail, frost, and darkness, changes in climate, and folk tales of enormous dragons and other monsters.


Donnelly claimed that all these doom-laden myths reflected the terrifying visitation of a giant comet in pre-historic times, and that the evidence lay in the “drift” or unstratified deposits commonly attributed to moving glaciers in the Ice Age. Donnelly questioned the accepted theory of continental glaciation, and by reviewing the nature and distribution of drift sought to show that these deposits were the result of a cometic collision. Donnelly also suggested that the Old Testament stories of destruction of wicked cities, and the sun’s standing still and the fall of stones from the heavens in the Book of Joshua, were reminiscences of the comet catastrophe. Since then, Velikovsky has also adopted the identification of Old Testament events with comet visitations. He places a first comet approach during the Exodus of the Israelites, and suggests that the earth then stopped spinning or slowed down, causing a division of the Red Sea; he identifies a second comet visit with the time of Joshua, and also further occasions connected with Old Testament history.


Writing in the present era, Velikovsky’s scientific speculation is understandably more plausible than Donnelly’s, but curiously enough the present-day objection by orthodox scientists is more intense and hysterical than in Donnelly’s time. Modern scientists plotted to suppress Velikovsky’s book, vilified and ridiculed its concepts—yet unperturbed, the author refuted all attacks with patience and courtesy. The full story of the conspiracy against Velikovsky, and the irrationality of his attackers, has been exposed in The Velikovsky Affair: The Warfare Of Science And Scientism by Alfred De Grazia, published by University Books Inc. But what has given added point to the work of both Donnelly and Velikovsky is that many of the latter’s scientific formulations condemned as “fantastic” and “cranky” have now been validated by recent discoveries. Velikovsky is in great demand as a lecturer.

 

Donnelly was better treated by the scientists of the nineteenth century. They picked holes in his theories, but did so courteously and with a certain admiration for his vision. Typical is this critic in “The Dial” (January, 1883):

“We have here a very notable book…Like the author’s ‘Atlantis’, it is based on a wide and varied accumulation of facts, histories, and myths, juxtaposed and intertwined by a bold and inventive imagination, and garnished with graphic phraseology and a glowing style, which ranges from the didactic to the epigrammatic, and from the descriptive to the poetic. Though not learned, nor original, save in its fundamental conception and in its application of the data of science and mythologies, the work will be read with curious interest by the learned; and though it draw perpetually on the treasuries of scientific and ethnic lore, the unlearned will pore over its pages with eagerness and delight. It will be understood, therefore, that ‘Ragnarok’ is a strong and brilliant literary production, which will command the interest of general readers, and the admiration and respect, if not the universal credence, of the conservative and the scientific.”

That is a very fair description of a remarkable book, and an epitome of the difference between nineteenth- and twentieth-century attitudes. Religion was then not yet dead, and science had not become the new dogma. The enormous value of both Donnelly and Velikovsky is that they stimulate new thought and vision.


It does not matter that much of Donnelly’s theory leans heavily on a shaky interpretation of the data concerning glacial drift. He was limited by the knowledge of his time. But he makes us think.


Like the good lawyer he was, Donnelly argues his case persuasively with the only evidence available, and there is never any doubt that the reader is one of a jury which must bring in its own verdict. There is much to be learned from Donnelly’s detail, and, even if we find the case wanting in the light of today’s scientific
knowledge, there are strong new evidences unknown to Donnelly but now presented with equal vigor by Velikovsky. It is a rewarding exercise to read Velikovsky side by side with Donnelly and see how old and new evidences and speculations lean toward the same general conclusions.


The importance of the present book is not simply in the details (right or wrong) by which Donnelly has rationalized his bold vision, but in the vision itself—an inspired intuition which Immanuel Velikovsky was to place on firmer ground over sixty years later. The sophistication of Velikovsky’s science has silenced many witch hunters steeped in orthodoxy who would have suppressed his presentation. Ultimately it does not even matter whether Donnelly and Velikovsky were right in their breathtaking concepts. Like so many works of art and fiction they lead us out of a narrow view, remind us of the mysterious infinities in which man lives and has his being. No mature adult has ever been harmed by good science fiction. And myth itself, indulged without guilt, has sustained many richly satisfying societies of the past.


PART THREE, CHAPTER FOUR—RAGNAROK
There is in the legends of the Scandinavians a marvelous record of the coming of the Comet. It has been repeated generation after generation, translated into all languages, commented on, criticized, but never understood. It has been regarded as a wild, unmeaning rhapsody of words, or as a premonition of some future earth-catastrophe.


But look at it!


The very name is significant. According to Professor Anderson’s etymology of the word, it means “the darkness of the gods”; from “regin”, gods, and “rökr”, darkness; but it may, more properly, be derived from the Icelandic, Danish, and Swedish “regn”, a rain, and “rök”, smoke, or dust; and it may mean the “rain of dust”, for the clay came first as dust; it is described in some Indian legends as ashes. First, there is, as in the tradition of the Druids, page 153, ante, the story of an age of crime.

The Vala looks upon the world, and, as the “Elder Edda” tells us—

There saw she wade in the heavy streams,
Men—foul murderers and perjurers,
And them who others’ wives seduce to sin.
Brothers slay brothers; sisters’ children, shed each other’s blood.
Hard is the world! Sensual sin grows huge.
There are sword-ages, axe-ages; shields are cleft in twain;
Storm-ages, murder ages; till the world falls dead,
And men no longer spare or pity one another.

The world has ripened for destruction; and “Ragnarok”, the darkness of the gods, or the rain of dust and ashes, comes to complete the work. The whole story is told with the utmost detail, and we shall see that it agrees, in almost every particular, with what reason assures us must have happened. “There are three winters,” or years, “during which great wars rage over the world.” Mankind has reached a climax of wickedness. Doubtless it is, as now, highly civilized in some regions, while still barbarian in others.

 

[COMMENT: Here again we encounter the idea that mankind reaches such a state of wickedness, only some sort of “purification” by the “gods” can restore the Earthly equilibrium. And immediately following is the idea that “the wolf devours the Sun”, which is remarkably similar to the phrase used by the Egyptians to describe the so-called “Great Eclipse” of 15 June 762 BCE: The Day The Sun Devoured The Moon. RS]

“Then happens that which will seem a great miracle: that THE WOLF DEVOURS THE SUN, and this will seem a great loss.”

That is, the Comet strikes the sun, or approaches so close to it that it seems to do so.

“The other wolf devours the moon, and this, too, will cause great mischief.”

We have seen that the comets often come in couples or triplets.

“The stars shall be hurled from heaven.”

This refers to the blazing debris of the Comet falling to the earth.

“Then it shall come to pass that the earth will shake so violently that trees will be torn up by the roots, the mountains will topple down; and all bonds and fetters will be broken and snapped.”

Chaos has come again. How closely does all this agree with Hesiod’s description of the shaking earth and the universal conflict of nature?

“The Fenris-wolf gets loose.”

This, we shall see, is the name of one of the comets.

“The sea rushes over the earth, for the Midgard-serpent writhes in giant rage, and seeks to gain the land.”

The Midgard-serpent is the name of another comet; it strives to reach the earth; its proximity disturbs the oceans. And then follows an inexplicable piece of mythology:

“The ship that is called Naglfar also becomes loose. It is made of the nails of dead men; wherefore it is worth warning that, when a man dies with unpared nails, he supplies a large amount of materials for the building of this ship, which both gods and men wish may be finished as late as possible. But in this flood Naglfar gets afloat, the giant Hrym is its steersman. The Fenris-wolf advances with wide-open mouth; the upper jaw reaches to heaven and the lower jaw is on the earth.” That is to say, the comet extends from the earth to the sun.

[COMMENT: Probably what is being described here by this myth is the establishment of the electromagnetic tethering beam from Earth’s North Pole to Nibiru’s South Pole. However, this peculiar reference to “unpared nails” is indeed mysterious. If any of you readers can suggest an explanation, please send email. Thanks! RS]

“He would open it still wider had he room.”

That is to say, the space between the sun and earth is not great enough; the tail of the comet reaches even beyond the earth.

“Fire flashes from his eyes and nostrils.”

A recent writer says:

“When bright comets happen to come very near to the sun, and are subjected to close observation under the advantages which the fine telescopes of the present day afford, a series of remarkable changes is found to take place in their luminous configuration. First, jets of bright light start out from the nucleus, and move through the fainter haze of the coma toward the sun; and then these jets are turned backward round the edge of the coma, and stream from it, behind the comet, until they are fashioned into a tail.”


“The Midgard-serpent vomits forth venom, defiling all the air and the sea; he is very terrible, and places himself side by side with the wolf.”

The two comets move together, like Biela’s two fragments; and they give out poison—the carbureted-hydrogen gas revealed by the spectroscope.

“In the midst of this clash and din, the heavens are rent in twain, and the sons of Muspelheim come riding through the opening.”

Muspelheim, according to Professor Anderson, means “the day of judgment”. “Muspel” signifies an abode of fire, peopled by fiends. So that this passage means, that the heavens are split open, or appear to be, by the great shining comet, or comets, striking the earth; it is a world of fire; it is the Day of Judgment.

“Surt rides first, and before him and after him flames burning fire.”

Surt is a demon associated with the comet; he is the same as the destructive god of the Egyptian mythology, Set, who destroys the sun. It may mean the blazing nucleus of the comet.

“He has a very good sword that shines brighter than the sun. As they ride over Bifrost it breaks to pieces, as has before been stated.”

Bifrost, we shall have reason to see hereafter, was a prolongation of land westward from Europe, which connected the British Islands with the island-home of the gods, or the godlike race of men.


[COMMENT: Bifrost was a legendary “Rainbow Bridge” connecting the Earth to “Asgard”, a land of gods beyond the North. Donnelly’s interpretation of this is not quite correct. RS]


There are geological proofs that such a land once existed. A writer, Thomas Butler Gunn, in a recent number of an English publication, says:

“Tennyson’s ‘Voyage of Maeldune’ is a magnificent allegorical expansion of this idea; and the laureate has also finely commemorated the old belief in the country of Lyonnesse, extending beyond the bounds of Cornwall: ‘A land of old upheaven from the abyss by fire, to sink into the abyss again; where fragments of forgotten peoples dwelt, and the long mountains ended in a coast of ever-shifting sands, and far away, the phantom circle of the morning sea.’


“Cornishmen of the last generation used to tell stories of strange household relics picked up at the very low tides, nay, even of the quaint habitations seen fathoms deep in the water.”

There are those who believe that these Scandinavian Eddas came, in the first instance, from Druidical Briton sources.


The Edda may be interpreted to mean that the Comet strikes the planet west of Europe, and crushes down some land in that quarter, called “the bridge of Bifrost”. Then follows a mighty battle between the gods and the Comet. It can have, of course, but one termination; but it will recur again and again in the legends of different nations. It was necessary that the gods, the protectors of mankind, should struggle to defend them against these strange and terrible enemies. But their very helplessness and their deaths show how immense was the calamity which had befallen the world.


[COMMENT: This passage indicates to me—looking at it from a modern, scientific and “occult” standpoint—that the arrival and docking of the Planet X Nibiru to the Earth’s North Pole is a natural physical event of the Universe; and even these “gods” or “advanced extraterrestrials”—the Nefilim Archons—have little power to control the devastation to our world, and quite possibly to parts of their own. See also Chapter 1. RS]


The Edda continues:

“The sons of Muspel direct their course to the plain which is called Vigrid. Thither repair also the Fenris-wolf and the Midgard-serpent.”

Both the comets have fallen on the earth.

 

[COMMENT: “Direct their course to the plain which is called Vigrid” might also indicate that they are trying to establish the electromagnetic connection between “Hyperborea” and the Earth, and in this case Vigrid would refer to the northern sky position of the tethered Comet-Planet X Nibiru. RS]

“To this place have also come Loke” (the evil genius of Norse mythology) “and Hrym, and with him all the Frost giants. In Loke’s company are all the friends of Hel” (the goddess of death). “The sons of Muspel have then their efficient bands alone by themselves. The plain Vigrid is one hundred miles (rasts) on each side.”

[COMMENT: “Loke”, which is also spelled “Loki”, is the Norse/Teutonic “god of the underworld” who in Nibiruan terminology would be Duke Nergal, the Greek Hades, the Roman Pluto. “Hel” was the wife or chief consort of Loki. “Hel” refers to Nibiruan Duchess Ereshkigal, the Greek Persephone, the Roman Pyrtania. “Hrym” is obviously the same name as “Thrym” who in Greco-Roman traditions is Dionysus or Bacchus. All the “Frost Giants” are undoubtedly the minor Archons, the faceless Anunnaki “who have no personalities, poor fellows, and who sit like poodles and smile at Anu.” The Nibiruan Baron Ninurta and Baroness Bau are known in Scandinavia as “Niflhel” and “Nerthus” (or in the Greco-Roman traditions, respectively, as Hephaestus/Vulcan/Typhon and Athena/Minerva). The Norse word “Niflhel” bears a strong resemblance to the Biblical/Sumerian term “Nefilim”, or “Sky-Giants”.


[As for the idea that the Vigrid Plain is one hundred miles, or “rasts”, on each side, this is clearly a parallel of the Siberian legend of the Ostyaks of the Irtysh River Valley, which states,

“There is a mill which grinds by itself, swings of itself, and scatters the dust a hundred versts away. And there is a golden pole with a golden cage on top which is also the Nail of the North.”

A “rast” is obviously the same measurement as a “verst”, which is 2/3 of a mile or about 1 kilometer in length; and since this north-polar area of the “treetrunk” tether location is where this “dust” is scattered about by the “giant millstone”, the Vigrid Plain may actually refer to the immediate North Polar Region. It is simply not possible to come to a definite conclusion in this regard, without first observing this phenomenon once again. Let us hope and pray that we live long enough to document this event—for the very first time in human history—as a geological and astronomical cataclysm! RS]


That is to say, all these evil forces, the comets, the fire, the devil, and death, have taken possession of the great plain, the heart of the civilized land. The scene is located in this spot, because probably it was from this spot the legends were afterward dispersed to all the world.


[COMMENT: If “this spot” in indeed the Northern Sky, then the legend would have been observed by peoples all over the Northern Hemisphere and not need to have been “dispersed” to the rest of the world. RS]

 

It is necessary for the defenders of mankind to rouse themselves. There is no time to be lost, and, accordingly, we learn—

“While these things are happening, Heimdal” (he was the guardian of the Bifrostbridge) “stands up, blows with all his might in the Gjallar-horn and awakens all the gods, who thereupon hold counsel. Odin rides to Mimer’s well to ask advice of Mimer for himself and his folk. Then quivers the ash Ygdrasil, and all things in the heaven and earth tremble.”

[COMMENT: This reference to the “Gjallar-horn” brings up thoughts of “Gabriel’s Horn” which is said in the Scriptures will herald “the end of the world”. Odin in Norse mythology is the Nibiruan Prince Nannar, the Greek Hermes, the Egyptian Thoth, the Slavonic Volga and the Mayan Quetzalcoatl or “flying serpent”. RS]


The ash [as in tree, not fire—RS] Ygdrasil is the tree-of-life; the tree of the ancient tree-worship; the tree which stands on the top of the pyramid in the islandbirthplace of the Aztec race; the tree referred to in the Hindu legends.

 

[COMMENT: Read that to mean “The Cosmic Tree”, “The Sacred Tree”, or “The World Tree”. RS]

“The asas” (the godlike men) “and the einherjes” (the heroes) “arm themselves and speed forth to the battlefield. Odin rides first; with his golden helmet, resplendent byrnic, and his spear Gungner, he advances against the Fenris-wolf” (the first comet). “Thor stands by his side, but can give him no assistance, for he has his hands full in his struggle with the Midgard-serpent” (the second comet). “Frey encounters Surt, and heavy blows are exchanged ere Frey falls. The cause of his death is that he has not that good sword which he gave to Skirner. Even the dog Garm” (another comet), “that was bound before the Gnipa-cave, gets loose. He is the greatest plague. He contends with Tyr, and they kill each other. Thor gets great renown by slaying the Midgard-serpent, but retreats only nine paces when he falls to the earth dead, poisoned by the venom that the serpent blows upon him.”

He has breathed the carbureted-hydrogen gas!


[COMMENT: Thor equals Nibiruan Crown-Prince Enlil (Osiris/Zeus/Indra/Vishnu/Yahweh and by default, Jehovah/Allah). Frey is Nibiruan Baron Marduk (Amon-Ra/Belus/Bel/Ba’al/Volos). RS]

“The wolf swallows Odin, and thus causes his death; but Vidar immediately turns and rushes at the wolf, placing one foot on his nether jaw.” (“On this foot he has the shoe, for which materials have been gathering through all ages, namely, the strips of leather which men cut off from the toes and heels of shoes; wherefore he who wishes to render assistance to the ‘asas’ must cast these strips away.”)

This last paragraph, like that concerning the ship Naglfar, is probably the interpolation of some later age.
The narrative continues:

“With one hand Vidar seizes the upper jaw of the wolf, and thus rends asunder his mouth. Thus the wolf perishes. Loke fights with Heimdal, and they kill each other. Thereupon Surt flings fire over the earth, and burns up all the world.”

This narrative is from the Younger Edda. The Elder Edda is to the same purpose, but there are more allusions to the effect of the catastrophe on the earth:

“The eagle screams, and with pale beak tears corpses…Mountains dash together. Heroes go the way to Hel, and heaven in rent in twain…All men abandon their homesteads when the warder of Midgard in wrath slays the serpent. The sun grows dark, the earth sinks into the sea, the bright stars from heaven vanish. Fire rages, heat blazes, and high flames play against heaven itself.”

And what follow then? Ice and cold and winter. For although these things come first in the narrative of the Edda, yet we are told that “before these” things, to wit, the cold winters, there occurred the wickedness of the world, and the wolves and the serpent made their appearance. So that the events transpired in the order in which I have given them.


[COMMENT: Here is a very, very important point to consider when reading these legends that have survived from Scandinavia. Before the last arrival sequence of the Planet X Nibiru, before 1587 BCE, then the geographical location of Scandinavia per se would not have been so extremely northern as nowadays, since before 1587 BCE, before this last Polar Axis Shift, Scandinavia would have been located more southerly in latitude. Thus, these legends relating to the advent of a “long winter” might simply refer to the fact that after the last Polar Axis Shift, Scandinavia pivoted to a higher northern latitude and thus experienced—for the first time—what they are by today quite accustomed to, i.e., long, dark, cold winters.


[To be more specific, before 1587 BCE, the North Pole was located in the middle of the North Atlantic Ocean somewhere between France and Québec, possibly in the vicinity of southern Greenland. The previous Equator would have run through present-day Mongolia and the Kamchatka Peninsula of the Russian Far East. Most of Russia/Siberia from Kazakhstan to Alaska would have been tropical and subtropical in climate. The Irtysh River would have flowed in an eastwardly direction into a non-frozen temperate sea. The main Scandinavian Peninsula, now north-south, would have been in an east-west direction at about the latitude of present-day Central Europe. The British Isles and Iceland would have been on the very northern fringes of the previous North Polar Zone.

 

Those who would have been living in what is now Scandinavia would not have had such long, dark, arctic winters as they do today, when some places experience a couple of months of total or near-total darkness. Thus, if the arrival of Planet X Nibiru and the re-establishment of The Cosmic Tree, as its natural consequence, moved the North Pole from the North Atlantic location to the current Arctic location, and if this occurred in December-January, then those ancient Scandinavians and Siberians would have been catapulted into a totally different winter environment of ice, snow and darkness—and they have preserved the legend of the “Fimbul Winter” that accompanied the previous cataclysm. Other locations would not necessarily have suffered this same sort of wintry side-effect of the Polar Axis Shift. This cannot be proven with any certainty, of course, but it does contain an element of logic. RS]

“First there is a winter called the Fimbul Winter, the mighty, the great, the iron winter, when snow drives from all quarters, the frosts are so severe, the winds so keen, there is no joy in the sun. There are three such winters in succession, without any intervening summer.”

Here we have the Glacial period which followed the Drift. Three years of incessant wind, and snow, and intense cold.


The Elder Edda says, speaking of the Fenris-wolf:

“It feeds on the bodies of men, when they die; the seats of the gods it stains with red blood.”

This probably refers to the iron-stained red clay cast down by the Comet over a large part of the earth; the “seats of the gods” means the home of the god-like race, which was doubtless covered, like Europe and America, with red clay; the waters which ran from it must have been the color of blood.

 

[COMMENT: From a personal standpoint here in Texas, my local regional topsoil is built upon a bed of red clay. Recently there was a utility crew digging along my street to lay a new water-main for an extension of this neighborhood. After the back-hoe had dug the 10-foot-deep ditch for the water-main, I took a look.

 

Only about the top 2-3 feet of earth was “humus” or “sandy-loam” soil. Below that was only hard red clay. By the time that the utility crew had finished their work and refilled the ditch, rather haphazardly, they had dumped red clay all over the yards of these new houses; and I was thinking to myself how “infertile” the top layer of earth would be for these new neighbors for several years to come, until it could remix itself with fallen leaves and other organic matter and recreate some sort of viable topsoil. I also understood why it is sometimes quite difficult for me to dig down below a certain depth, because this red clay, when dry, is practically like hardened cement in texture. Whether it all resulted from these “cosmic cataclysms” is, of course, impossible to know. RS]

“The sunshine blackens in the summers thereafter, and the weather grows bad.”

In the Younger Edda (p. 57) we are given a still more precise description of the Ice Age:

“Replied Har, explaining, that as soon as the streams, that are called Elivogs” (the rivers from under ice) “had come so far that the venomous yeast” (the clay?) “which flowed with them hardened, as does dross that runs from the fire, then it turned” (as) “into ice. And when this ice stopped and flowed no more, then gathered over it the drizzling rain that arose from the venom” (the clay) “and froze into rime” (ice) “and one layer of ice was laid upon another clear into the Ginungagap.”

Ginungagap, we are told, was the name applied in the eleventh century by the Northmen to the ocean between Greenland and Vinland, or America. It doubtless meant originally the whole of the Atlantic Ocean. The clay, when it first fell, was probably full of chemical elements, which rendered it, and the waters which filtered through it, unfit for human use; clay waters are, to this day, the worst in the world.

“Then said Jafnhar: ‘All that part of Ginungagap that turns to the north’ (the north Atlantic) ‘was filled with thick and heavy ice and rime, and everywhere within were drizzling rains and gusts. But the south part of Ginungagap was lighted up by the glowing sparks that flew out of Muspelheim.’”

The ice and rime to the north represent the age of ice and snow. Muspelheim was the torrid country of the south, over which the clouds could not yet form in consequence of the heat—Africa.


But it cannot last forever. The clouds disappear; the floods find their way back to the ocean; nature begins to decorate once more the scarred and crushed face of the world. But where is the human race? The “Younger Edda” tells us:

“During the conflagration caused by Surt’s fire, a woman by the name of Lif and a man named Lifthraser lie concealed in Hodmimer’s hold, or forest. The dew of the dawn serves them for food, and so great a race shall spring from them, that their descendants shall soon spread over the whole earth.”

[COMMENT: Again, see also Chapter 1. Compare this to Dr. Velikovsky’s discussion of the early-morning “honeydew” or “ambrosia” or “manna” that sustained other ancient cultures. RS]


The “Elder Edda” says:

Lif and Lifthraser will lie hid in Hodmimer’s-holt; The morning dew they have for food. From them are the races descended.

Holt” is a grove, or forest, or hold; it was probably a cave. We shall see that nearly all the legends refer to the caves in which mankind escaped from destruction.

 

[COMMENT: And where on Earth will most of us find such sheltering caves today? RS]


This statement, “From them are the races descended”, shows that this is not prophecy, but history; it refers to the past, not to the future; it describes not a Day of Judgment to come, but one that has already fallen on the human family. Two others, of the godlike race, also escaped in some way not indicated: Vidar and Vale are their names. They, too, had probably taken refuge in some cavern.

“Neither the sea nor Surt’s fire had harmed them, and they dwell on the plains of Ida, where Asgard was before. Thither come also the sons of Thor, Mode, and Magne, and they have Mjolner. Then come Balder and Hoder from Hel.”

Mode and Magne are children of Thor; they belong to the godlike race. They, too, have escaped. Mjolner is Thor’s hammer. Balder is the Sun; he has returned from the abode of death, to which the Comet consigned him. Hoder is the Night. All this means that the fragments and remnants of humanity reassemble on the plain of Ida—the plain of Vigrid—where the battle was fought. They possess the works of the old civilization, represented by Thor’s hammer; and the day and night once more return after the long midnight blackness.


And the Vala looks again upon a renewed and rejuvenated world:

She sees arise the second time,
From the sea, the earth, completely green.
The cascades fall, the eagle soars,
From lofty mounts pursues its prey.

It is once more the glorious, the sun-lighted world; the world of flashing seas, dancing streams, and green leaves; with the eagle, high above it all, “battling the sunny ceiling of the globe with his dark wings”; while “the wild cataracts leap in glory”.


What history, what poetry, what beauty, what inestimable pictures of an infinite past have lain hidden away in these Sagas—the despised heritage of all the blue-eyed, light-haired races of the world!


Rome and Greece cannot parallel this marvelous story:

Slow-Motion Doomsday
The gods convene on Ida’s plain,
And talk of the powerful Midgard-serpent;
They call to mind the Fenris-wolf
And the ancient runes of the mighty Odin.

What else can mankind think of, or dream of, or talk of for the next thousand years but this awful, this unparalleled calamity through which the race has passed? A long-subsequent but most ancient and cultivated people, whose memory has, for us, almost faded from the earth, will thereafter embalm the great drama in legends, myths, prayers, poems, and sagas; fragments of which are found today dispersed through all literatures in all lands; some of them, as we shall see, having found their way even into the Bible revered alike of Jew and Christian. The Edda continues,

“Then again the wonderful golden tablets are found in the grass: In time’s morning, the leader of the gods and Odin’s race possessed them.”

And what a find was that! This poor remnant of humanity discovers “the golden tablets” of the former civilization. Doubtless, the inscribed tablets, by which the art of writing survived to the race; for what would tablets be without inscriptions? For they talk of “the ancient runes of mighty Odin”, that is, of the runic letters, the alphabetical writing. And we shall see hereafter that this view is confirmed from other sources.


There follows a happy age:

The fields unsown yield their growth;
All ills cease. Halder comes.
Hoder and Balder, those heavenly gods,
Dwell together in Odin’s halls.

The great catastrophe is past. Man is saved. The world is once more fair. The sun shines again in heaven. Night and day follow each other in endless revolution around the happy globe. Ragnarok is past.

UNQUOTE


These passages indicate a clear distinction between the “Fenris Wolf” and the “Midgard Serpent”. It could be possible that one of them approaches from one direction, and the other from a different direction. We have observed “Mystery Rogue Planets” in the direction of Orion and Sirius. And we have observed a “dark object” coming at us, “microlensing” in front of M22 in the direction of the Galactic Center in Sagittarius. See Chapter 11. And then coincidentally the Samian riddle indicates that the object will make its “grand entrance” after the (Midgard?) serpent appears. The “venom” spewed by the Midgard Serpent could be the unleashing of the electromagnetic tether beam from their Planet to ours. So many mysteries!