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| | Germanic Religion - Comments On The Creation Myth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) |
 | | Further, in the myth of Ymir, two motifs have apparently merged: the engenderment of primeval beings (in this case, giants) and the creation of the worlds from parts of his body. |
 | | The Idea of an ancestral progenitor is already found in the Latin sources: Tacitus, in the second chapter of his Germania, tells about Tuisto, born from the earth, who begets Mannus, the common ancestor of the Germanic tribes. |
 | | The names are quite revealing: Tuisto is connected with the numeral "two" and designates a bisexual being (Ger., Zwitter), an androgynous ancestor as one might assume Ymir could have been. |
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