The twilight of the gods is a series of catastrophes predicted by Nordic mythology, including great wars that killed many important gods. It tells the story of Saul, Frey, Heimdahl, Fire Giant, Frost Giant, Loki and countless natural disasters, and then the whole world sinks into the water.
However, in the end, the world was restored, and the surviving God and two human beings re-established a new world. The twilight of the gods is mainly recorded in poetry and prose "Eda".
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The most famous Nordic myth is the twilight of the gods, which is the last chapter of the myth. The scene described by the most tragic battle in the history of mythology has reached the critical point of human imagination at that time.
The myth of destruction is an important motif in the myths of all countries in the world. However, in the destruction myths of various countries, most of them show the theme of God destroying the human world he created, and the main ways of destruction are floods and droughts.
At the same time, most of them appear at the beginning of myths, reflecting the reverence of human ancestors for nature and the original exploration of the origin of life. However, in Nordic mythology, due to the special geographical environment of northern Europe, the ancestors of northern Europe were rarely attacked by natural disasters such as floods.
Therefore, their myth of destruction is not based on the theme of natural forces, but also appears in the last part of the myth. But the most special thing is that their myth of destruction not only destroyed the human world.
All the gods and their homes were completely destroyed in this tragic war. At the same time, this kind of destruction was doomed when God created the world. No one can avoid it and no one can stop it.
Therefore, from the beginning of Nordic mythology, its tragedy has been firmly locked, and finally the dusk of the gods pushed this tragedy to a brilliant and cruel climax.
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