An Afterthought about Ymir

As I told the Norse myth I had chosen for Thursday i forgot a very interesting part of the tale. Turns out that the story also describes the creation of dawrves from the body of Ymir.

"Odin and his brothers used Ymir's lifeless body to create the universe. They carried it to the center of Ginnungagap and there they ground his flesh into dirt. The maggots that appeared in his flesh became the dwarves that live under the earth. His bones became the mountains, his teeth rocks and pebbles. Odin strewed Ymir's brains into the sky to create the clouds, and took sparks and embers from Muspelheim for the sun, moon and stars. The gods placed four dwarves—Norðri (North), Suðri (South), Austri (East), and Vestri (West)—to hold up Ymir's skull and create the heavens"
wikipedia

first memory/recurring dream

i'm not actually sure if this is a memory, or just something i made up when i was very young. Every couple of years i have the same memory/dream. I'm very small and standing in front of the screen door of my very first home. Surrounding the mat by the screen door are around twenty pairs of shoes, but i don't see anyone around. I can't open the door so i travel downstairs and somehow i get lost in a series of hallways. (This would be impossible as their is only one hallway in the basement). Anyway I can't find my way out but somehow arrive on the 2nd floor. Then i get lost again on the second floor, this is when i always wake up. (The 2nd floor was very very small so theres no way this could happen either)
I have no idea what this means

Alex Tyler

Again, magic may be wrought on a man sympathetically, not only through his clothes and severed parts of himself, but also through the impressions left by his body in sand or earth. In particular, it is a world-wide superstition that by injuring footprints you injure the feet that made them. Thus the natives of South-eastern Australia think that they can lame a man by placing sharp pieces of quartz, glass, bone, or charcoal in his footprints. Rheumatic pains are often attributed by them to this cause. Seeing a Tatungolung man very lame, Mr. Howitt asked him what was the matter. He said, “some fellow has put bottle in my foot.” He was suffering from rheumatism, but believed that an enemy had found his foot-track and had buried it in a piece of broken bottle, the magical influence of which had entered his foot.
Sir James George Frasier

like produces like...right?

Alex Tyler

About the year 1830 there appeared, in one of the States of the American Union bordering on Kentucky, an impostor who declared that he was the Son of God, the Saviour of mankind, and that he had reappeared on earth to recall the impious, the unbelieving, and sinners to their duty. He protested that if they did not mend their ways within a certain time, he would give the signal, and in a moment the world would crumble to ruins. These extravagant pretensions were received with favour even by persons of wealth and position in society. At last a German humbly besought the new Messiah to announce the dreadful catastrophe to his fellow-countrymen in the German language, as they did not understand English, and it seemed a pity that they should be damned merely on that account. The would-be Saviour in reply confessed with great candour that he did not know German. “What!” retorted the German, “you the Son of God, and don’t speak all languages, and don’t even know German? Come, come, you are a knave, a hypocrite, and a madman. Bedlam is the place for you.” The spectators laughed, and went away ashamed of their credulity.
Sir James George Frazer

I found this paragraph very amusing

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