Ymir
birthed a male and female from the pits of his arms, and his legs together begat
a six-headed being.
Ymir
was slain by the gods Odin Vili and VE and his body was used as raw material
for the creation of the world.
They fashioned Earth from
his flesh, from his blood the ocean, from his bones the mountains, from his
hair the trees, from his brains the clouds, from his skull the heavens, and
from his eyebrows the middle realm in which mankind lives,
Ndjambi is a sky god of the
Herero people in south west Africa. He is the creator of the Primoradial
Omumborombonga tree from which Mukuru, the first human emerges, With his wife
Kamungarunga they become the progenitors of all humans.
Ndjambi Karunga, an
omnipresent God who lives in Heaven, from where he protects and blesses his
people with benevolence.
He is the source of all good
deeds and to commit acts of kindness is to honor him.
Whoever dies a natural death
is borne aloft by him.
The place of worship is a
sacred shrine, called Okuruo, standing prominently inside the village and can
only be accessed by the priest who performs religious rituals.
the Okuruo contains the
‘holy fire’ that symbolizes life, prosperity and fertility
The Herero do not speak to
Ndjambi directly instead using their anscectors to convey messages to the deity
for help or protection.
But it is not permissible to
utter his name except of certain special occasions.
#Kronos#Chronos#GreekMyth#Uranos#Zeus#Titan
Name : The Titans
Aliases : Children of Uranos
Classification: Pantheon of Cosmic deities
Literature: the Hesiod,
The Theogony, Greek Mythology
Parents : Uranos and Gai
Associated: Chaos, Creation
Patheon/Faith : Ancient Greek
Cultural : Ancient Mediterranean
In Greek mythology the Titans were a secondary race of gods. they were the twelve children of the primordial parents Uranus (Sky) and his mother, Gaia (Earth) Comprising the six sons and six daughters of the Sky God Uranos and the earth goddess Gaia
Oceanus, Coeus, Crius, Hyperion, Iapetus, and Cronus, and six female Titans, called the Titanides Theia, Rhea, Themis, Mnemosyne, Phoebe, and Tethys.
Cronus mated with his older sister Rhea and together they became the parents of the first generation of Olympians: the six siblings Zeus, Hades, Poseidon, Hestia, Demeter, and Hera. Descendants of the Titans are sometimes also called Titans.
The Titans were the former gods, the generation of gods preceding the Olympians. They were overthrown as part of the Greek succession myth, which told how Cronus seized power from his father Uranus, and ruled the cosmos with the Titans as his subordinates.
and how Cronus and the Titans were in turn defeated and replaced as the ruling pantheon of gods, by Zeus and the Olympians, in a ten-year war called the Titanomachy. As a result of this war of the gods, Cronus and the vanquished Titans were banished from the upper world, being held imprisoned, under guard in Tartarus.
Oceanus and Tethys, Coeus and Phoebe, Hyperion and Theia, and Cronus and Rhea. The other two Titan brothers married outside their immediate family. Iapetus married his niece Clymene, the daughter of Oceanus and Tethys, while Crius married his half-sister Eurybia, the daughter of Gaia and Pontus. The two remaining Titan sisters, Themis and Mnemosyne, became wives of their nephew Zeus.
From Oceanus and Tethys came the three thousand river gods, and three thousand Oceanid nymphs. From Coeus and Phoebe came Leto, another wife of Zeus, and Asteria.
From Crius and Eurybia came Astraeus, Pallas, and Perses.
From Hyperion and Theia came the celestial personifications Helios (Sun), Selene (Moon), and Eos (Dawn).
From Iapetus and Clymene came Atlas, Menoetius, Prometheus, and Epimetheus.
From Cronus and Rhea came the Olympians: Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Hades, Poseidon, and Zeus.
By Zeus, Themis bore the three Horae (Hours), and the three Moirai (Fates),
and Mnemosyne bore the nine Muses.
