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Jörmungandr in the sea during Ragnarök, drawn by the Norwegian illustrator Louis Moe in 1898.. In Norse mythology, Jörmungandr (Old Norse: Jǫrmungandr, lit. 'the Vast 'gand'', see Etymology), also known as the Midgard Serpent or World Serpent (Old Norse: Miðgarðsormr, "worm of Midgard"), is an unfathomably large and monstrous sea serpent or worm who dwells in the world sea, encircling ...
The symbol is also featured prominently on the cover of both the fictional book and the novel. The Worm Ouroboros is a high-fantasy novel written by E. R. Eddison. Much like the cyclical symbol of the ouroboros eating its own tail, the novel ends as it begins. The main villain has a ring in the form of Ouroboros.
Jormungand (ヨルムンガンド, Yorumungando) is a manga series by Keitarou Takahashi, which was serialized in Monthly Sunday Gene-X magazine and published in North America by Viz Media.
Jormungand (Japanese: ヨルムンガンド, Hepburn: Yorumungando) [a] is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Keitaro Takahashi.It was serialized in Shogakukan's seinen manga magazine Monthly Sunday Gene-X from April 2006 to January 2012, with its chapters collected in eleven tankōbon volumes.
In Nordic mythology, Jörmungandr (or Midgarðsormr) was a sea serpent or worm so long that it encircled the entire world, Midgard. [4] Sea serpents also appear frequently in later Scandinavian folklore, particularly in that of Norway, such as an account that in 1028 AD, Saint Olaf killed a sea serpent in Valldal in Norway, throwing its body onto the mountain Syltefjellet.
Jörmungandr or Jormungandr can refer to: Jörmungandr, a giant sea serpent in Norse mythology; Midgard Serpent (Marvel Comics), also known as Jormungand; Jormungandr, a genus of fossil mosasaurs with only one member, Jormungandr walhallaensis; Joermungandr, a genus of fossil tetrapods with only one member, Joermungandr bolti
The anthropologist Lynne Isbell has argued that, as primates, the serpent as a symbol of death is built into our unconscious minds because of our evolutionary history.. Isbell argues that for millions of years snakes were the only significant predators of primates, and that this explains why fear of snakes is one of the most common phobias worldwide and why the symbol of the serpent is so ...
610-550 BC Daunian stelae from Apulia (left); Sun and Fire symbols in Albanian traditional tattoo patterns (19th century). [187] The cross (also swastika in some tattoos) is the Albanian traditional way to represent the deified Fire, evidently also called with the theonym Enji .