https://padlet.com/mrsbtwebb/tpmv0ds4myj5 You and your partner need to post five insightful pieces of feedback you discovered after reading and discussing the Viking Creation Myth. *Please do NOT give plot summary! en-us 2018-01-09 13:50:31 UTC 2018-01-11 15:54:27 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/mrsbtwebb/tpmv0ds4myj5/wish/219732963 1. This Viking Creation Story shares a common theme of the creation of the heaven (sky) and the earth, similar to the other stories we learned in class.
2. The only animal mentioned in this creation story was a cow, which leads me to infer that this animal is sacred to the Viking culture.
3. The theme of darkness vs. light, is represented by the brother and sister, Moon and Sol.  Moon causes night, and Sol makes the sun rise everyday.
4. I find it interesting that the colorful rainbows we still see today were considered a bridge from earth to heaven, for the gods to use.
5. I didn't know Ymir, the frost giant, became the earth and the sky.]]> 2018-01-09 14:15:14 UTC https://padlet.com/mrsbtwebb/tpmv0ds4myj5/wish/219732963 https://padlet.com/mrsbtwebb/tpmv0ds4myj5/wish/219734209 1. The creation story is similar to the Biblical story of Noah, sharing the theme of the Ark to avoid a great flood. 
2. The emphasis of Ymir's blood reminds me of the Maori creation story when the Sky and the Earth's blood spilled onto their children.
3. The Chinese story shares a similar plot when the creator died and his body became the earth. In the Viking story, Ymir's body formed the mountains, trees, and sky and his blood became the sea.
4. A lot of the creation stories shared the idea of "breathing life" into people made for natural materials. Where other stories made humans of mud, this one made them of logs.
5. An original aspect I enjoyed was the idea that rainbows are pathway to heaven. It is a myth I have never heard but it's a nice thought.]]> 2018-01-09 14:17:16 UTC https://padlet.com/mrsbtwebb/tpmv0ds4myj5/wish/219734209 https://padlet.com/mrsbtwebb/tpmv0ds4myj5/wish/219734884 1) One thing that is constant among many creation stories that the Viking myth established was that the world was nothing in the beginning of time.
2) The main god we noticed in the myth was Odin, son of Bor and Bestla. His brothers remained unnamed. 
3) The natural elements we noticed in the myth included earth, wind, water, and ice.
4) One supernatural element we noticed included the fact that the first man and woman, from which all people came from thereafter, were created by the gods out of logs located on the earth made from the frost giant, Ymir's, body.
5) One moral that would be important to the Vikings is the idea that the gods will fight and defeat any evil, no matter how large or small it is.]]> 2018-01-09 14:18:18 UTC https://padlet.com/mrsbtwebb/tpmv0ds4myj5/wish/219734884 https://padlet.com/mrsbtwebb/tpmv0ds4myj5/wish/219736168 1. The creation story of the Vikings has a few archetypes present. One of them being that there was nothing in the beginning of time. The creation story also involved the Norse god Odin and his brothers. An archetype of the creation stories is that they involve gods in some shape or form. 
2. Something we noticed is that the god Odin became jealous easily because of Sol and Moon's names. This implies that he can feel mundane emotions. He is prone to feeling rage, as well. 
3. The story had interesting elements in it. One of them being that Ymir was the first of his race of frost giants. Then he became evil and Odin and his brothers have attacked and killed him.
4. He lost a lot of blood, most of the frost giants drowned in it. One survived by building an ark for himself and his family, reminiscent of Noah's Ark. From Ymir's corpse the earth was created, similarly to the giant in the Chinese myth.
5. The creation story mentions that Niflheim, one of the nine worlds of Norse mythology, had been created before Earth. This could imply that MIdgard/ Earth was one of the last worlds to be created.]]> 2018-01-09 14:20:24 UTC https://padlet.com/mrsbtwebb/tpmv0ds4myj5/wish/219736168 https://padlet.com/mrsbtwebb/tpmv0ds4myj5/wish/219737855 1. The Viking creation story shares the common similarity among most creation stories which is the creation of heaven and earth from nothing.
2. There were a few points in the story that reminded me of biblical stories such as when Ymir turned evil it reminded me of the story of Satan. He was an angel and turned against god and was sent to hell. The part where the frost giant built the ark for him and his family, Noah's ark.
3. The sun god Sol was mentioned in the story
4. It shows how ice created the first man and milk from a cows udders formed rivers that created Buri.
5. Towards the end it tells about a rainbow that links heaven and earth but doesn't last long because it disappears when the men of Muspell try to cross it in
to heaven.]]> 2018-01-09 14:22:53 UTC https://padlet.com/mrsbtwebb/tpmv0ds4myj5/wish/219737855 https://padlet.com/mrsbtwebb/tpmv0ds4myj5/wish/220577133 1. The creation story of the Viking Pantheon pertains the archetype of creation of Heaven and the Earth from the universe. Ginnungagap is the bottomless abyss that was all there was prior to the beginning of the cosmos. It was believed that during Ragnarok it will collapse and end the world.
3. One thing unique is the way all things within the universe came to be over time in a chain reaction series of events. The cow Audhumla licks salt ice blocks while giving milk along rivers, licks free a man, and so on.
4. There is a concept that a rainbow  links heaven and Earth together, but was faded after men of Muspell tried to cross it to get to Heaven. This closely is connected to an idea present in Dante's Divine Comedy, where heaven is connected by a stairway but only those who have died and are pure enough can ascend.
5. One of the most important norse gods is Odin, who can be paralleled to Zues, who had to slay a corrupt frost giant named Ymir. Odin and his brothers then used his body to create nature on Earth.
5. The gods eventually formed the first man and woman, Ask and Embla, from two tree trunks, and built a fence around their new home to protect them from the giants, ]]> 2018-01-11 14:03:38 UTC https://padlet.com/mrsbtwebb/tpmv0ds4myj5/wish/220577133 https://padlet.com/mrsbtwebb/tpmv0ds4myj5/wish/220595897
- There is kind of a good vs evil vibe in it between the bother and sister, aka Sol and Moon.
- Towards the end it tells about a rainbow that links heaven and earth but doesn't last long because it disappears when the men of Muspell try to cross it in
to heaven.
- It shows how ice created the first man and milk from a cows udders formed rivers that created Buri.
- This Viking Creation Story shares a common theme of the creation of the heaven (sky) and the earth, similar to the other stories we learned in class.
- The only animal mentioned in this creation story was a cow, which leads me to infer that this animal is sacred to the Viking culture.]]> 2018-01-11 14:38:12 UTC https://padlet.com/mrsbtwebb/tpmv0ds4myj5/wish/220595897 https://padlet.com/mrsbtwebb/tpmv0ds4myj5/wish/220629278 1) There is a great similarity between viking mythology and Christianity including the flood

2) I share some plot points with Greek mythology as sol is basically the Apollo of viking mythology.

3) Odin created the world and his brothers helped him put stars in the sky.

4) It was interesting that  earth wasn't the first world created like in most other creation stories.

5) Ymir blood became the sea.]]> 2018-01-11 15:35:40 UTC https://padlet.com/mrsbtwebb/tpmv0ds4myj5/wish/220629278