The Moon in Norse Myth 

Norse myth was made in a Hollywood sound studio in 1969. That's the real conspiracy ;-)

Moon is actually a hologram

@@kubawilk8396 Both words contain two Os and an M, so proof.

@@KingoftheJuice18 It is said that the Hollywood sound studio also made a film about it, that's the _reel_ conspiracy.

fools! youre all being deceived by the two things that follow the moon :p

That's a cool way of looking at it, but I wonder. Did the Norse people know the moon controlled the tides?

@@callisastapp7160I think they must have known. It doesn’t take a scientist to notice that when the moon is directly overhead (or the reverse side of the day from that time), the tide is high.

In German „sun“ is Sonne.

Is their story similar to the Norse?

@@GrandRunemaster Rahu and Ketu were originally one person (possibly a demon) "Rahuketu". But Rahuketu's body got split into halves by a "Sudarshan Chakra" sent by the sun and mood god leading to Rahu being the Head with the body of a serpent, and Ketu with the head of a serpent and the body of a man. (He didn't die because he had already drank a sip of Amrit (Immortality Juice that the Gods and Demons fought for). You'd find the significance of Rahu and Ketu in Indian Astrology. Rahu and Ketu signify the interesection points of the sun and the moon. They are adversaries to the sun and moon god. Everytime Rahu catches up with the sun, we get a solar eclipse. And everytime Ketu catches up with the moon, subsequently we get a lunar eclipse. So if I had to guess, I'd say that the idea behind the myths are very similar. That is to explain natural phenomena. Apart from that, I'd say that there are subtle hints of these myths being related and possibly originating from an older time, most possibly the beliefs of Indo-European peoples that are lost to antiquity.

I know, right? I've been immersed in a lot of the Norse lore since I was a kid, but have only really read the primary sources for about... well around fifteen years. I keep mixing up what I "know" (actively know from the sources,) with what I recall from the lore (like children's books with monstrous amounts of interpretation.) I didn't realize we have that one source for Hati and Skoll, for example. I thought the idea that the moon and sun were pursued by wolves were much more pervasive...

It is so sad. One side of my family is Norwegian and the other Swedish, but they have no interest in the old Norse, just the post Christianization part, so they don't get me at all, lol. It's sad anytime history is lost like this has been

The story says they were taken up to the sky and can be seen. The names seem to also indicate waxing (Hyuki) and waning (Bil) referring to the phases of the moon.

Heiptum skal máni kveðja, The hate shall moon greet. It´s really weird, but it could be a connection.

@@livedandletdie Wolves are thought to greet (howl at) the moon.

Off hand I think we still are pretty sparse when it comes to myths/folklore regarding the sun and moon. The phases of the moon are of course indicative of things, but the sun and moon in themselves are not the focus. Perhaps the use of them as indicators of the turning of the year is still a thing, but that would be true for anyone, I suppose. Basically the folklore that's around today has more to do with the sprites and spirits of the forests and the mountains, and the restless dead, than with the heavens. It has also changed quite a lot over the years, so what is around today probably really only harken back to the 1600's at the earliest in main, wity very very few traces left of anything even pre-reformation, let alone pre-christian.

That's they both are same mythology

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