Ragnarök

In the Nez Perce culture the trickster took the form of a coyote and was the hero. There was a monster that came and ate all the animals from the earth, but did get the coyote because he tied himself to a mountain and the monster could not reach him. Over time they became friends and the coyote started missing his old friends and wished to visit them. The monster allows the coyote to go into its stomach. While there the coyote builds a fire and cuts the heart out with a knife. Like the myth…

1. Snorri may have euhemerized the position of Asgarth vs Mithgarth. The position of Asgarth over Mithgarth makes sense, as the worlds were diagrammed as a tree. As seen in the prologue, he says that the gods may have been kings or leaders in the past. Snorri may have intentionally done this, or it could have been more of a bias of his intelligence. We don’t know if any myths are euhemerized for sure, but there is quite the possibility that some features have been modified, while the meaning…

Authors apply the process of defamiliarization to enhance readers’ connections between the text and their lives. When writing about the apocalypse, authors discuss the aspects of human nature that persist as the world collapses, compelling readers to draw insight from the text and hopefully gain a better understanding of how to prevent the apocalypse. In Stephen King’s “The End of the Whole Mess” and Richard Kadrey’s “Still Life with Apocalypse,” both authors discuss the leadership structures…

when Momotombo was working with his brother Qunte Quiente in the blacksmith shop in Midgard or Norse Mythology times. Momotombo and Quente Quiente wanted fight all the Norse gods because Momotombo and Qunte Quiente thought that the gods would bring ragnarok and kill everybody. So, the next day appeared and Momotombo went to go see Qunte Quiente but something horrific happened, Qunte Quiente was killed. Right next to Quente Quiente was a spear and on the wooden side of the spear it said…

Influence of Norse Mythology and Christian Values on Tolkien’s Views of Good and Evil The most prevalent theme in John Ronald Reuel Tolkien’s legendarium is the recurring battle between good and evil. The moral struggle between good and evil has been recorded and demonstrated in nearly all cultures, including Norse mythology and Tolkien’s personal philosophy, heavily influenced by his Christian upbringing. Tolkien, having studied both extensively, found inspiration in both when creating his…

Apart from humans, who are predominantly present in Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights; animal imagery is brilliantly used by Emily Bronte in this magnum opus with deep symbolic and metaphorical meanings attached to it, and having psychological underpinning. In this study, Psychoanalysis of novel, Wuthering Heights is undertaken, which has further explained Primitivism in Healthcliff’s personality, and the regression of dog into wolf, hence going from partial…

It is a novel with a story that draws much inspiration from Norse mythos and the elements that feature heavily within their unique stories. The author uses Ragnarok, the end of the world, for inspiration by using Surtr to make the Colossal Titan and how the monster’s actions signify the beginning of the end. Isayama takes the strength, madness, and immunity to pain from the berserkers as described in the Ynglinga…

Vikings; early Europe’s bloodthirsty warriors. At the surface, they seemed no better than packs of wild dogs, faithless and savage. These “dogs” did have faith. They had faith in the many Gods and Goddesses of the Aesir. Tales of creatures, immortal beings, and everlasting wars would fill the halls of longhouses across the lands for hundreds of years, until they steadily faded away for centuries. Norse-paganism was once a great and prosperous religion that spread throughout most of Europe. It…

Laura Mulvey, in “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema” (1975), reveals how traditional cinema is imbued with an active male gaze that communicates dominant and sexist ideologies. She argues that classical Hollywood movies reflect the patriarchal system in which they are produced, with women being “looked at and displayed” for the (assumed) male spectator’s pleasure. While the success of several recent female-led blockbusters seem to indicate a shift toward greater female representation, I…

Adelburgers (“Adelbu”) Brief Description: Ultra elite wing of the RGA led by Walther Schäffer; has origins in the short lived RGA Gruppe “Ragnarök 14,” made up of members with a known service record within the Civil Guard. Organization: Instead of following its predecessor’s formation of 14 six man crews, Adelbu crews work in groups of ten eight man crews, much like most the RGA. These groups are organized within one cohesive organizational entity that answers personally to Walther Schäffer…