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Encyclopedia > Embla

Ask and Embla were the first two humans created by the gods of the Norse Mythology (analogy with Adam and Eve).


Odin and his brothers, Ve and Vili, created all nine worlds of Norse cosmology. They then found two logs on a beach and gave them a human shape. Odin gave them the breath of life; Vili gave them wit and emotions; Ve gave them senses and speech. These two people, Ask ("ash"), the male, and Embla ("elm"), became the progenitors of humanity; they lived in Midgard. In the Elder or Poetic Edda, "The Seeress's Prophecy" says that they were without "lacking in fate". Odin gave them breath, Hænir spirit, Loki "vital spark" (Larrington, The Poetic Edda, Oxford University Press, 1996).


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Ask and Embla - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (420 words)
Ask and Embla on a postage stamp of the Faroe Islands, 2003 by Anker Eli Petersen.
In Norse Mythology Ask and Embla were the first two humans created by the gods, analogous with Adam and Eve.
The idea that the first humans were shaped from tree-trunks is apparently a part of the cyclic notions, where light and darkness relieve each other, separated by the semidarkness of the dawn and dusk.
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