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Ymir

Gematria Values
Standard
29
Reduction
11
Simple
65
Reduction
11
English
390
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3
Hebrew
519
Reduction
6
Satanic
2340
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9
ALW Kabbalah
539
Reduction
8
Standard (Reverse)
25
Reduction
7
Simple (Reverse)
43
Reduction
7
English (Reverse)
258
Reduction
6
Hebrew (Reverse)
120
Reduction
3
Satanic (Reverse)
1548
Reduction
9
ALW Kabbalah (Reverse)
151
Reduction
7

Ymir is a primordial being in Norse mythology, often referred to as the progenitor of the cosmos and all life within it. According to the Prose Edda, written by Snorri Sturluson, Ymir was a giant born from the meeting of the fiery realm of Muspelheim and the icy void of Niflheim. From Ymir's body, the gods created the world: his flesh became the earth, his blood the seas, his bones the mountains, and his skull the sky. The translation of Ymir to Hebrew is ימאיר (Yamir). In Old Norse, the term is Ýmir, which may be derived from the word yr, meaning "yogurt" or "sour milk," possibly referring to the primordial substance from which Ymir emerged. Ymir's death at the hands of the god Odin and his brothers marked the beginning of the creation of the world as known in Norse cosmology. Ymir's descendants, the Jötnar (giants), are central figures in many Norse myths, often in conflict with the gods.

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Ymir
Primeval being in Norse mythology
Ymir
In Norse mythology, Ymir, also called Aurgelmir, Brimir, or Bláinn, is the ancestor of all jötnar. Ymir is attested in the Poetic Edda, compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional material, in the Prose Edda, written by Snorri Sturluson in the 13th century, and in the poetry of skalds. Taken together, several stanzas from four poems collected in the Poetic Edda refer to Ymir as a primeval being who was born from atter, yeasty venom that dripped from the icy rivers called the Élivágar, and lived in the grassless void of Ginnungagap. Ymir gave birth to a male and female from his armpits, and his legs together begat a six-headed being. The grandsons of Búri, the gods Odin and Vili and Vé, fashioned the Earth—elsewhere personified as a goddess named Jörð—from Ymir's flesh; the oceans from his blood; from his bones, the mountains; from his hair, the trees; from his brains, the clouds; from his skull, the heavens; and from his eyebrows, the middle realm in which humankind lives, Midgard. In addition, one stanza relates that the dwarfs were given life by the gods from Ymir's flesh and blood.
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