![]() ![]() Kratos then stabs Sinmara's heart within Surtr's body, causing the Fire Giant to laugh in glee that Sinmara would be safe before falling into the Spark itself. Surtr then informed Kratos that with his fire in the blades and Sinmara's frozen heart combined, he would get the monster destined to destroy Asgard, Ragnarök, telling the Ghost of Sparta that it was time. Surtr imbues the Blades with the primordial fire, causing both Kratos and Surtr pain. When they reached the Spark, Surtr extracted some of his primordial fire from it and ordered Kratos to bring out his Blades of Chaos. When Surtr decided to help Kratos and Atreus against Odin after realizing there was a way to spare Sinmara, the first Fire Giant guided the Spartan and his son to the Spark of the World whilst informing them of it's origin, Atreus questioned Surtr if he was indeed there at the beginning of everything, and when the Fire Giant confirmed this, Atreus then asked what it was like, only for Surtr to bitterly recall it as "Loud”. While the wilderness is utangard enough, the “capital” of chaos, as it were, is Ginnungagap the abyss is the ultimate destination to which the giants want to bring the world.Ġ8 March 2010 In the God of War Series These anti-cosmic forces are constantly trying to drag the Aesir gods, their work, and their ideals back to chaos (and at Ragnarök they will succeed). Plowed fields are innangard, but beyond the fences that surround them and mark them off reigns the wilderness, the utangard home of the giants. In the pre-Christian religion of the Norse and other Germanic peoples, this chaos-cosmos split is expressed as an opposition between the innangard, that which is orderly, civilized, and law-abiding, and the utangard, that which is wild and anarchic. To cite but one example, most of my readers will no doubt be familiar with the famous words of the first chapter of Genesis, which describe the state of the universe prior to the intervention of Elohim in Judeo-Christian mythology: “And the earth was without form, and void and darkness was upon the face of the deep.” The opposition between the well-ordered, just, and beneficent cosmos on the one hand and the lawless chaos that surrounds it is perhaps one of the most common themes in religion and in human consciousness more generally. This perfect, uninterrupted silence and darkness has close counterparts in other mythologies from around the world. This surely refers to the capacity for something that can serve as the basis for creation to come out of its nothingness. The best guess anyone has come up with so far is Jan de Vries’s suggestion of “magically-charged,” a theory that has gained widespread acceptance. ![]() ![]() The meaning of the ginnung element, however, is far less certain. The Old Norse word gap means the same thing as it does in modern English: a void, an empty space. Ginnungagap is the bottomless abyss that was all there was prior to the creation of the cosmos, and into which the cosmos will collapse once again during Ragnarök, the “Twilight of the Gods.” ![]()
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