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Encyclopedia > Yggdrasil (disambiguation)

Yggdrasil (also spelled as Yggdrasill) can refer to:


In Mythology: The word mythology (from the Greek μυολογία mythología, from μυολογείν mythologein to relate myths, from μύος mythos, meaning a narrative, and λόγος logos, meaning speech or argument) literally means the (oral) retelling of myths – stories that a particular culture believes to be true and that use the supernatural to interpret natural events and...

  • Yggdrasil is the world tree of Norse mythology

In Anime: This illustration shows a 19th century attempt to visualize the world view of the Prose Edda. ... The main cast of the anime Cowboy Bebop (1998) (L to R: Spike Spiegel, Jet Black, Ed Tivrusky, Faye Valentine, and Ein the dog) For the oleo-resin, see Animé (oleo-resin). ...

In Computing: Heavenly computer maintaining reality, Yggdrasil In the Oh My Goddess! anime/manga, Yggdrasil is the heavenly computer system that maintains reality, with the gods and goddesses acting as its programmers, system administrators, and debuggers. ... Yggdrasil is the name of a fictional character in several iterations of the Digimon franchise, named after the world tree from Norse mythology. ... Memory (Random Access Memory) Look up computing in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

  • Yggdrasil Linux is an early Linux distribution developed by Yggdrasil, a company founded by Adam Richter.

In Music: Yggdrasil Linux was an early Linux distribution (distro) developed by Yggdrasil, a company founded by Adam Richter. ... For other uses, see Music (disambiguation). ...

  • Einherjer has a song entitled Burning Yggdrasil, listed on the album Norwegian Native Art
  • Yggdrasil (album) is an album by Bump of Chicken
  • Yggdrasill (album) was the name of the 1992 demo of the Norwegian Viking metal band Enslaved, who also have two songs mentioning the term Yggdrasil, specifically the songs Yggdrasil from the album Frost and the song Return To Yggdrasil from the album Isa
  • Yggdrasil (band) is the name of a folk band from the Faroe Islands founded by Kristian Blak

In Video games: Einherjer band logo Einherjer was a Viking metal band from Haugesund, Norway, founded in 1993. ... Released on August 25, 2004, Yggdrasil is J-Pop/J-Rock group BUMP OF CHICKENs sixth album. ... Yggdrasill was Enslaveds 1992 demo. ... Yggdrasil is a folk band which music is mainly compositions by Kristian Blak and interpretations of ethnic material from the North Atlantic region: Faroese ballads, hymns, rhymes – Inuit songs – Shetland music. ... This article is about computer and video games. ...

  • Mithos Yggdrasill is both the main villain and a hero in Tales of Symphonia
  • Yggdrasil (sand cruiser/submarine/airship) a large sand cruiser, later retrofitted into a submarine, and then an airship, that is used by the main characters in Xenogears as a principle means of transportation.

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Yggdrasil - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1015 words)
In Norse mythology, Yggdrasil (actually Yggdrasill [ˈygˌdrasil:]; the extra -l is a nominative case marker) also sometimes called Mimameid or Lerad was the "World tree", a gigantic tree, thought to connect all the nine worlds of Norse cosmology.
Yggdrasil is also central in the myth of Ragnarok, the end of the world.
Yggdrasil apparently had smaller counterparts as the enormous evergreen of unknown species that stood at the Temple at Uppsala and Irminsul, which was an oak venerated by the pagan Saxons and which was said to connect heaven and earth.
biology - Yggdrasil (1128 words)
Yggdrasill is considered to be the highest of the Angelus Realm in the novel, Infintrinity, but it is soon found out that he is working to revive the darkest of them all, Trice, who soon takes over the universe, but is stopped by Locke, Celestia, and Blight, The protagonists of the story, the Infintrinity.
Yggdrasill is the character who split the world in two as part of his plot to resurrect his sister, Martel (See Tales of Symphonia for more details.) At the end of the game(as shown in previous games that occur later), the regrown Mana Tree is named Yggdrasill.
Yggdrasill was also the name of The True Voice of the Tree Het Masteen's Treeship, which was sacrificed during the battle for Hyperion in Dan Simmons' Hyperion Cantos.
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