| According to the Icelandic Edda, our planet was made by excavating the corpse of the dead giant Ymir. |
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| With the help of one of his brothers, he slew the giant Ymir and created the realm of Midgard from his remains. |
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| Aurgelmir, also called Ymir, in Norse mythology, the first being, a giant who was created from the drops of water that formed when the ice of Niflheim met the heat of Muspelheim. |
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| In the Norse Prose Edda, the cosmos is formed from the body of the dismembered great Ymir, and, in the Rigveda, the oldest Indian text, the cosmos is a result of the primordial sacrifice of a man, the purusha. |
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| There then appeared a giant, Ymir, and after him the gods, who lifted the earth out of the sea. |
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| A river produced by these realms coagulated to form Ymir, while a cow known as Audumbla then appeared to provide him with milk. |
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| The Prose Edda, however, describes dwarfs as beings similar to maggots that festered in the flesh of Ymir before being gifted with reason by the gods. |
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| Other Norse creation myths tell of the evil Ice Giant Ymir, who is clearly based on folk memories of the last glaciation, 'from whose body the world was made. |
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