Norse Mythology Research Paper

All across the world, there are bizarre, unusual mythologies used to explain the unknown. Perhaps some of the three most known mythologies can also be some of the most bizarre. These mythologies are the Norse, Greek, and Japanese mythologies.

Norse mythology is a unique mythology, unlike most other mythologies it does not follow law or order, it stays on the brink of becoming chaos. The Norse mythology is not like other mythologies where they believe there are only a few planes of existence, Norse mythology believes in the cosmos. There are nine realms in Norse mythology and they are all in something called Yggdrasil, the world tree. From top to bottom of the tree these are the realms: Asgard(land of the Aesir gods), Midgard(earth), Jotunheimen(land of giants), Vanaheim(home of the Vanir gods), …show more content…
They then came down and the woman said hello to the man first, they then had some messed up children(such as a floating island and an ugly leech child) and found out it was because the woman spoke first. They then tried again with the man speaking first. They then had many many children until the woman had a fire demon for a child which killed her. After killing the fire demon the man then went to the underworld to get her back. Once he found her she told him to wait for her and to not look at her, but he did look at her and saw millions of maggots eating her flesh. Because of this, she chased him out of the underworld and the man sealed her inside making her the goddess of the underworld. Later most of the children they had became gods and had more children which made more gods and so-on and so-forth. Some of these gods and goddesses created monsters or became monsters that wreaked havoc on the humans. The humans then found ways to ward them off and call them yokai. That is basically Japanese mythology in a