Ymir Real Meaning: Translation, Attestations and Theories of Norse Gods/Deities
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- Опубліковано 12 вер 2020
- The real meaning of Ymir, the first being in the universe. A link to the big bang????
Every God/deity/character in the Norse myths had a translation and real meaning. When we start to understand this, we can see that the Norse pagan myths were not just a bunch of unbelievable stories meant to entertain children. We should not assume that our ancestors were that dumb to actually believe in these things. All of the myths and gods symbolize real things in nature, the cosmos, universe and spirituality. Although we don't know exactly what these myths represent all of the time and theories are debated, we have to look at these things to determine the most logical ones and discover the real truth.
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I actually hadn't seen this video before, but here we once again have the things I've mentioned - that the physical cosmos is created from the resonance from a sound; the word AUM that The Divine (brahman) utters. A stands for creation, U stands for conservation and M for destruction, which later became Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva. And when the Divine manifests physically it does that with a roaring Sound (i.e. Rudra, or let's call it Big Bang if we'd like) and takes an elliptical shape (lingam). It's so clear that all the Indo European peoples have the same source.
The similarities are endless. Always happy to hear from you about these
It is interesting that Ymr and Om contain that M sound. Maybe there is a very distant relationship with that?
Nikolai Tesla said "if you want to understand the universe, you must look at it in terms of frequency and vibration". Many believe he was the greatest genius of modern times.
So more than sound, I'd translate Ymir as"vibration." There is vibration in absolutely every tipe of energy. And matter is simply the densest type of energy we have. So everything vibrates. But again, with no air, no sound.
"Frequency" might also be a good translation.
Maybe Ymir and Loki could be sort of related? Earth quakes is caused by Loki having poison drip on him where he's chained as punishment and those are vibrations of the earth. Is there a link? Those that know more than me, which most here do I guess, could you answer?
But keeping the literal translation would be essential in order to allow your interpretation or others. It could make great commentary
@@based9930 Frequency is a very good translation in my opinion. Because everything in the universe vibrates at an certain frequency, everything is vibration. In every atom, every electron, proton, neutron, every particle and antiparticle in the universe forms out of wave motion that vibrates on a different frequency.
This makes a lot of sense.
Super fascinating, especially because it coincides with my experience. I remember a trip once where I traveled to the origin of existence. And it was beyond anything I'd ever imagined. A vast, dark field of nothingness, and through this nothingness popped bits of sound and vibration, crystalizing and condensing into matter and life. I'll never forget that.
How'd you get there?
I know this comment is years old but I have to respond. I’ve had very similar trips. Everything that we see, touch or interact with is a vibrational frequency on a continuum. Einstein proved that with his theory of relativity. Tripping balls made me realize what that meant first hand.
@@mikiemike20042002 How'd you get there?
Our ancestors were amazing, intelligent people. The world probably made more sense to them, no traffic, no lights, no cities, just them and nature, the stars, and the earth. I'm learning so much about our ancestors. There are all these pieces and parts that fit together spiritually to make it all come together.
Thank you for all the information brother, I also pass this on to my kids as well. Our ways can only die if we let them.
The Poetic Edda (I can't remember which peom) also speaks of a shield between the sun and the world, which if it got removed, Midgard would burn. They literally described the atmosphere.
Maybe not the atmosphere but THE MAGNETIC FIELD 😮
I believe ymir is a name given to the sound of the ice melting at the end of the ice age. We have always been here as a species just constantly evolving and I believe during the ice age we began eating more meat and fats due to the lack of food as it got colder which also led to the first tribes being formed and language being birthed as we began interacting with our environment we learned not to kill the cow but to drink its milk which is where the first cow worship developed. Ymir is the sound of the world as you awaken to it for the first time
I was thinking the same thing, "Singing ice". ISA🪓⚔👍
I learned in Physics that everything is pieced together by atoms (like leggo pieces) and each atom vibrates at a certain sound. This video is mind blowing and explains so much!
The concept of "sound" as the initiating point or force of creation brings to mind the stories of creator-gods who are said to have spoken life into existence.
Makes sense, sound is the only thing you can literally feel but can not see
Tolkien was very well versed in the old myths and was a great philologist. I am quite interested in this sound interpretation as it's similar to his take on a creation myth in his work Silmarillion that's a creation based on music. He might have known it or sort of been influenced to make it that way? On the other hand he was Catholic so it's also a bit too Christian for my taste but I at the same time like it and appreciate it for what it is.
This same sentiment is echoed in Genesis - if words are not sounds, then what are they? Simply abstract ideas with no expression.
In the beginning there was God and the Word was with God.
Consider that Nikola Tesla very clearly stated, "Vibration is everything."
He was exploring resonance and caused a nearby seismometer to register a small earthquake with a device he left going on his workbench.
Perhaps Ymir is not dead.
It should be obvious to any well read person of Norse myth that Ymir is the sounds that reside within the glaciers.
Search up glacier sounds or even frozen lake cracking and you'll get the sound of the PREVIOUS ragnarok.
The impacts that rapidly melted the icecaps and ended the ice age would make TOTAL SENSE to be remembered as an ICY SOUND GIANT.
I like that idea. That fits well with my thoughts on buri/audhumbla too
This is AMAZING! I really must get this translation by Maria C Kvilhaug MA - it is out of print, and I scour the web for this book regularly. This translation makes ALL the difference. Thank you for these videos. They are very educational
I'm looking for it too
Its been reissued and can be found on Amazon, along with a few other works of hers. Just in case you hadn't found it yet.
I am learning so much from your videos AND you are a "hoot" (meaning really funny).
thank you for the recommendation on Maria Kvilhaug translation! I see Ymir as the unity that we were all fragmented from and strive to return to to feel whole through spiritual work. was the poetic Edda originally written in the script shown (on the right side)?
Yes exactly. I love tat she puts the original texts next to all the translations. Helps us learn a bit of old norse too
Fascinating! Thank you!
I reckon it’s possible there was a pagan having a laugh telling the Christian Snori what Ymr was about. 😂😂
Hej, I am happy to have found your channel. My grandfather is Swedish and my grandmother was Norwegian. I was learning Norwegian on Duolingo lol. I am happy to learn more about my ancestors. Look forward to learning much from you
Love your videos brother.Keep up the truth 🍻
Science just retold the ancient creation story like any other religion. As I wrote in the Freyr comments, the "MMMMMM" of Brahma in Hiranyagarbha. This refers to a person humming while dreaming in subconscious sleep. The dream gets so intense that he wakes up, stretching as he pushed the golden half of the egg up to become the vault of the sky and stood in the lower half to become the basin of the sea. We see this in Pangu, China's version of the Golden Embryo theme, where the giant grew until it died then became the material world almost identically with Ymir becoming that material world. This also follows Dionysian tradition as Bromios is the boisterous one. This is the Big Bang, as Brahma literally means "Burst-major" or "burst-mind" which really means he is the embodiment of the expansion. Traditional Torah studies say that the first word, B'reishit, is the first manifestation of God. Buri (att börja) is a part of this bija/seed sound for "burst"..."BRAH" It means the beginning of an expanding cycle that's still expanding...emphasis on the beginning part of the expansion. The mystical hummmm of the base not is the sound Om, or AUM in another way of taking the steps of pronunciation from the back to the front of the mouth.
Though Ymir is the first living thing, he is also the first to die. He is the Lord of Life and Death because of this. Yama and Yima in Indo-Iranian is the Lord of Death who gaurds the gates with 2 4-eyed hounds...again with the 2-4-8 number pattern like 8 brow stars with Gefjon's bull sons. Yama is depicted as a bull-headed man riding a bull in sexual union with a woman. The background is a landscape full of green life. His land is in the Moon, or Land of Ancestors, as the moon is the cup of soma, related to the second chakra or sacral ocean flood. Semen as refined blood is also evident in this paradigm. TCM explains the kidney (water) energy drops and fills the basin of the hips as the ocean, like the mead vessel Son. The moan of pleasure in dreamtime is the same as the moan at orgasm which also explodes seed. Although we say Ymir was first to live, Yima/Yama has been seen as meaning "twin." It's obvious when we realize the fire of Muspell existed before the Ice of Nifl but this follows Classical Greek Kabbalah elemental theory. Ginnungagap is empty space, holding all. Then the fire heated the space, creating wind movement that condensed and solidified. This is that fall of the spirit concept again that we saw in the Freyr story. It also explains the 3 sisters of Kabbala in Breath (Air), Thought (Fire), and Understanding (Water). Thought (the ass above him) stands above the line linking Knowledge with Wisdom. Breath is the medium to feel, thought is the medium to analyze, and understanding is the wisdom extracted from pondering. Action results as Odhinn is Sense-Action (Sensation), Vili is the analytical thought (Will) and Vé is the result of divine action whether that be sacred space, consecrated objects, or medical elixir. This is feel, think, speak, and the first word was Light...as Muspel ignites.
Ymir is the water, the 2nd son in the Bagua and called "Black Emperor" in Chinese. Confucius was supposedly conceived after his mother was raped by the Black Emperor. A cloud came over her when she walked at night and she immaculately conceived. This derives from Fuxi, the legendary emperor who was also immaculately conceived as his shamaness mother consumed the essence left in the footprint of a giant/god. This god lived in Thunder Mountain Lake, had little goat horn nubs and the shamaness could summon the entity who would only leave a footprint behind. This echoes Lithuanian holes drilled into boulders in sacred groves that would gather "holy water." Then we have to see the footprint motif in earliest rock carvings in Scandinavia as well as Thor's fishing attempt. The liver is the boat (3rd chakra) and the sea is linked to the bull sacrifice overlay (2nd chakra), and the worm at the bottom is Kundalini/Nidhoggr/Jormungandr (Earth-Mouth-Magic). The footprint relates to the Chong Mai or thrusting vessel that gives Thor power. The earth/liver meridians are even depicted as fighting one another for dominance as the Stomach/Spleen are Earth/Rock and Liver is Wood in the East...fighting rock giants.The Jade Emperor is Thunder, the 1st son; the Black Emperor is Water, the 2nd son; and the Yellow Emperor is Rock, the 3rd son. The Yellow Emperor is the founder of TCM and refined Taoist culture, although Fuxi discovered the Bagua which depicted the wisdom in algebraic symbology. The Rock is also Shiva's phallus, and he is Ishvara (Fertile Lord). The Black Emperor is considered perverted and feminine, qualities often associated with very ancient homosexuality and was depicted as a change in warrior culture. The polarity is similar to Etruscan and Roman culture around sexuality.
Yamantaka is "Yama-Taker/Conqueror" and is also depicted as a bull-headed man. It's interesting because Minotaur was born due to the lust cursed upon the princess of Minos. Yama upon a bull copulating with a woman is clear in the depiction in traditional art. The killer of Yama is the wrathful manifestation of Manjushri, the bodhisattva of conscious creation. That's what Feel-Think-Speak did to create the material existence out of the body of the Bull, Ymir. The poems often order things in different manners. For example, Snorri goes into great detail about the forming of Ymir, but when asked about Audhumla, he says, "In the same way." Yet, Snorri also said that before Niflheimr, there was Muspellhemr. This means, that although he depicted Ymir as first, his sister was present first. He was the hardening of ice from water, but she was hardening rock from lava. The story of Prajapati and Tejas explains how oceanic volcanoes created life. This tale actually describes the steps to Biblical creation as well, even saying that God was ignorant and said "Light" out of fear of the sound in the darkness that preexisted thought. Therefore, our forefathers understood the volcanic earth, fiery yang, and the freezing ocean, watery yin, mirrored each other in their apparent opposition. In this way, the mythology and philosophy do show the wisdom of needing Rock-Matter before any power may be applied to make something change into the fruit of action. This is the essential conflict between Thor and Rock giants in Norse and Chinese cultures. It also explains why the creation of anything becomes the destruction of everything created. The gods adapting to avoid endings creates greater suffering when the next ending comes.
The same can be seen in the stages of Yima as the Persian legendary emperor. He was told to take the laws to the People, though he refused, so he was told to populate the world with life. He lived a long time, then as his reign was going to end he stabbed the earth to make her swell to fit more life. He did it again and she fit even more life. The third time, however, failed to make her swell, so he danced an underground city into existence. Like the Hopi kiva, this was the cave of Plato's allegory. His myth was taken from Prometheus, who claimed that humans were maggots living in caves afraid of their own shadows." This not only connects Plato's myth to Prometheus, but maggot dwarfs as pre-fire humans, trapped in materialism, follows Norse myth of the gods' first attempts at making life.
How did they know? self reflection. Science is not saying anything new, but provides new details of what we already know. Science thinks it knows everything better, but they are only repeating what already existed in the human narrative.
I love the references to geological and other scientific phenomenons you've pointed out. I've been soaking up all sorts of new legends and stories ever since I heard one of my tribal stories called the six peoplings of the earth: we know there have been five mass extinction events❤️ now I'm looking for possible hints on how the ancient people's survived the onset, and ends of ice ages.
In my younger days I took mushrooms up in the mountains, in the middle of nowhere. late at night a friend and I took a walk to sit on a huge boulder in a clearing. Once seated I quickly pointed out "the sound of the earth". I could hear a loud, vibrating, sound and I swear I could feel the earth rotating. Psychedelics defiantly can indeed take you to spiritual places.
I also want to add before this I was a complete atheist but upon returning from this trip I became very spiritual and started turning to paganism.
Brilliant video thank you from south Australia..hello all
I teach the works of Maria Kvilhaug on my website. Thnk u for sharing.
Our philosophies are exactly the same. Thank you so much for all you do.
Interesting that I stumbled on this video when my declared purpose was to get to the bottom of how sound works. Mostly, it was fueled by my son's questions about his battle tactics on the video game "Dune 2" where sound was being used as a weapon and all I knew was that Tesla had designed a sound based tool as well and he was a genius. So, what is sound/ymir anyway? Interesting that Thor is associated with waves, too. I suspect there is a theme there.
I know, I know, keep watching...
This was mind blowing. Thank you brother. Imagine what good Shrooms can reveal.
The first thing I thought of when you said Ymir was sound was "Let there be sound!" which naturally lead me to Let there be Rock..AC/DC... 🤣
old video, but a good one. So it's worth mentioning that objectively when you remove all of the distractions of our "modern" life you will start noticing things differently. Spend a couple weeks camping primitively. One or two days is only long enough for your mind to start calming down. In 2 weeks you will begin to adjust to the natural environment. You will really see the night sky, the trees and wildlife. This is closer to what our ancestors saw and experienced. If you do this you will understand what I mean, and understand the relation.
I also think the different types of related peoples like the Jotuns, Trolls etc were our history interactions with the other humanoids/Neanderthals /Denisovans/Cro Magnons etc - we battled and bred with them just as the sagas depict.
really like this one
I like the fact that this version translates the beings' names. I'd never read a version of the poetic edda ( and I've read several) where that was done.
Nice
I read the Neil Gaiman's book of Norse mythology, is that a good reference point or should I read some other books? Please help me
I am not a pagan, so I don't espouse a view that the Norse myths have any deep insights into physics, but I will tell you what I tell everyone who asks: everything in physics is described in terms of vibrations. Even particles of matter are just vibrations of quantum fields. Christians, of course, connect this to god's voice creating the universe.
One point that I am glad you mentioned: the Voluspa account is not nearly as silly as Snorri's account of creation! I would think that Ymir probably just represented a primordial chaos, though, with no more specific or scientific ideas really.
michael killing the (sea-) dragon ; and the sea (-dragon) was no more .
The big wave .. maybe the flooding of Doggerland by the tsunami?
What i read and heard in historic poddcast with (Tommy kosela, religion historian) says that Ymir means twin.
Good morning. So you sprung an epiphany in my brain when you say that sound creates. Yesterday I felt triggered when someone said to me, “hi Jayna, you look tierd”. Back in December when I had Covid a friend said, “you look pale”.
It makes me pissy for some reason and it seemed petty until I heard you say today that sound creates. Why can’t we build each other up instead of tear each other down?
Just a thought. 😎
What is it that your saying as your greeting in the beginning of your videos and the farewell you say at the end>?
It just means welcome everybody and see you next time :)
@@norsemagicandbeliefs8134 Tusen Takk :) --- I wonder if you have heard of Heilung, the music group? I would love to see you do a video on your take about that group.
Tack broder, som vanligt ett jätte bra arbete. Vet du vad de där löven kan vara för någon de lägger på elden i vikings när de ska berätta om ragnarök?
Ja det kommer sikkert fra "Fire Gazing." En ritual der vi kunne stirre i ilden for å se fremtiden. Jar ikke laget en video om det ennå me skal snart :)
Flott!! Ser jag fram imot broder🙂🙌
It looks like Maria's book is out of print... Can't find it anywhere else either... anyone have any idea how to get it?
I cant find it anywhere either. It would be nice to know how I could access it.
Bro, sound is a mechanical wave moving through a medium like water or air, basically a medium dense enough to carry the momentum. Here is the thing, when there is nothing and then the big bang happens it creates no sound cause there is no such medium. What do y'all think?
Interesting about the beginning of the universe described as sound building. This is very similar to Tolkien’s approach in the Silmarillion, which makes sense when you consider he was a philologist that was intimately familiar with these poems, and in his own mind was seeking to recreate a version of the lost English/Germanic mythology; see The Road to Middle Earth by Tom Shippey.
I think someone who spent enough time in nature, completely unplugged, could tap into that earth/universe vibe. And I would try to pick a place where you feel like the only person that exists. Then what ever everyone does to enter that state where you feel one with all, focus on any pulsation within that oneness. Northern hemisphere should do this in late spring to early fall with the Milky Way in the night sky. And early morning sessions, 1am-6am. I’m curious so I am going to try
technically the creation myth from Norse beliefs lines up with modern science, in the big bang theory(not the show) there was a singularity wich was made up of all matter in the universe wich at the time was so dense and hot that it all took the form of plasma and this lines up with Norse beliefs in Muspelheim. Eventually this singularity expanded and grew wich you could possibly see as similar to the world tree sprouting/growing though that may be a stretch, in the early years of the universe there was antimatter and the matter that makes up the natural world and this is important because the expansion of the universe probably caused noise and after this noise matter and antimatter formed but antimatter outnumbered matter and so a sort of cosmic battle would of taken place over wich form of matter would make up the universe similar to how the first Aesir gods fought the giants and the giants outnumbered the Aesir, after the battle gas formed in space wich condensed into stars wich exploded forming more stars but also the materials that would make planets, with the last piece I dont have a connection I thought of but others may.
Imagine with all the knowledge and technology we have now, if we were to go back to the beliefs of our ancestors and examine them with modern knowledge and technology how much we could learn 🤔
Our ancestors did know a lot more than we give them credit for. Ritual works. Recreational tripping is something different. Magick is just science we don't understand yet. Fwiw, I named a gaming character Ymir Neverleft just to fit in with an rpg storyline. But the sound and vibration of the Big Bang is still with us, so I'll say my witch brain switched to autopilot for that one.
The story of Ymir and the slaying of Tiamat in the Babylonian story Enuma Elish are very similar.
I once heard an interesting idea that Ymir is the sound or more specifically vibration which can be understood as sexual act...vibrations between two lovers, involving sounds/humming that creates life
Never thought of it that way. But absolutely makes sense too!
since humans were made from a tree (hair of ymir) by odin and his brothers who are half jotun, does that make humans part jotun?
i cant find any theories on this
Thank you, it so makes sense. Can't thank you more. I have that crazy translation with almost no value. It is sad.
Sorry to dissapoint you all but the big bang was not an explosion, it was an expansion. By then there was no sound because there was no air particles that could vibrate. The thing is that the name "big bang" was at first used to mock the theory, since the scientific who proposed it was a christian trying to prove a common origin. It turned out that the scientific who mocked the theory reviewed the calculations and turned up to be no fail in them, the theory is coherent with Einstein's relativity. But there was no sound nor light until millions of years later.
This totally coincides with the King James Version of John 1:1 in the bible, is translated as "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." So here we have Vibration or Sound as the origin of all.
Your take on the big bang is VERY misunderstood, but I really like your comparison to Ymir and his progeny. For starters, there is a lot that needs to happen before planet formation can begin, specifically the formation of particles, then stars and the formation of atoms. You could however compare Ymir to a supernova, and then in this context his progeny seem to fit better with what you are getting at.
But the electrons, protons, and neutrons are made up of atoms and atoms vibrate which vibration is sound
if you look up sciencephile the ai on you tube, he has a video about the first secounds of the universe, it's all waves of particles fluctuating and by the end of these first secounds when the universe begins to form as we know it the one great force becomes split into the 4 only types of forces in the univers, maybe that has something to do with the 4 rivers of milk that ymir feeds himself with, as these forces are what made it all work and transform.
Read my book Mind Travels I have self published on Amazon I have a piece called Provoking the Aetheria which was a vision conversation I had which describes this almost perfectly.
However, without air, you get vibrations, but you can't hear sounds.
This Is a scientific confirm
wouldn't it be the twin Thunder & Lightning (guides of Heavens) ? The Voice ?
the mighty blows/stretches dealt upon the dragon that make him to 'flee' ?
"Let's find out!"
How cool Love how you pronounce my name
We have a clear idea what happens when we dream. Science has come a long way since the druids
Ymir was the Big Bang...possibly? 🤔🤔🤔
It’s impressive how similar all religions can be. It’s just the misinterpretations and lies of man that tears them all apart.
YMIR YHWH
Same guy ? Who knows.
It doesn't mean sound... Not directly, anyways. It means light.. All sound is created by energy, such as light. When a flash happens it is quickly followed, depending on distance from source, by a sound wave. Sound is a subset of the EM spectrum. With the wavelength/frequency relationship identical. The wavelength of sound is even perfectly below em radio waves; exactly where it should be given its lower energy. It's why radio waves are used; they can travel distances a voice in the air cannot and you can even focus it to one wavelength. Which is how we get different radio channels
They talk about that Ymir In the orthodox church
what the heck are you saying at the beginning? its stuck in my head but its definitely incorrect. I'd like to at least have the correct greeting in my head lololol
I believe everything was once living matter
They talk about that in orthodox
Nickolai Tesla.
Thank you so so much for your interpretations. All these childish fake pagans trying to create a new Christianity out of my ancestors words, make me sick.
Hail Odin, Thor and white Christ
Ymir might share similarity with what the Hindus call Om
Yeah but isnt sound simply thought made physical?
and now we know the origins of the feet fetish...
I would like to know your thoughts on William S. Burroughs ideas about Language as a Virus... it may seem off topic but Im thinking of the truth in what the ancient knew about words. He speaks to that knowledge intentionally corrupted by "man"... just a quick thought...
Have not read stuff by him. i will check it out! :)
It looks Odin was real and Ymir was turned into a map of the world and Ymir was not turned into the world.
Ymer = yoghurt like thing.
;-)
the big bang was nothing but sound? who says that?
It's funny that throughout the video you are linking the mithology to modern science to validate the argument but at 8:13 you say we dont need science to explain things.
I may be wrong, but I think he was inferring that science is only validating what was already written and that we could look more closely and these old stories - that they are explaining more than we give them credit for. Just a thought.
@@Wizardofthesouthsea Maybe he meant that, but if so he wasn't as clear as he stated it throughout the video. Yet anyway science does not confirm anything of his interpretation since the big bang was an expansion and not an explosion. Also no noise could have been emited by then since there was no air. The same now, there is only vacuum in space so there are no particles that could vibrate making a soundwave.
That's a problem that all religions and beliefs face: they attempt to validate their arguments with current science by making interpretations that do not correspond to the knowledge during the time their text were written nor were the intentions of the writer nor the way people understood it back then. Scientific rationality is something absolutely different from religious rationality and both belong to different ages and social context.
@@cafecitoconazucar Gotcha.
@@Wizardofthesouthsea So wavelengths doesnt exist in vacuum? Then what is light? cosmic radiation from that light which also cant be seen, touched but still exist in a dimension of wavelengths/motions passing through the universe.
@@drdoom9544 Did you mean to @ me in this? I haven’t made any science claims here. I wouldn’t have a clue about all of that. I just clarified what I thought he meant in the video. Wasn’t agreeing or disagreeing with it.
*Hinduism is sweating in the background*
Joke's meaning : if you didn't know Hinduism is actually a pretty scientific religion like for example it has accurately calculated the speed of light and dats just tip of the iceberg, now Hinduism has a Rival!
Ymir the almighty one of heaven, and earth didn't think Thor was hammering his anvil hard enough so he took his hammer struck the anvil blowing up the universe which would have been the Big Bang theoretically, otherwise he drew a cometary light bolt in a fury where we have germinated since in what is the photogenesis duplidoppleganging!
Lol wth is this nonsense your spittin?
Tbh, it's a bit hard not to make it sound ridiculous when you talk about things like armpits having sex with each other.
Sorry, but this is just as ridiculous as the christian creation science and intelligent design and what have you. Our forefathers lived in a prescience world. Get over it! And yes, they did believe "stupid" things, that'd unfortunately how things was before we learned how to see the universe trough science.
I’m very very surprised you say Snorri was a Christian priest. He was an Icelandic lawman in newly Christianized Iceland, during an era when Christianity was extremely mild in their culture.