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Tberc were talcs of pcrsonnl visits and advcntnres of the gods among men. taking part in battles, and appearing in dreams. Thy were conceived to possess the form of human beings and to be like men, subject to love and pin, but always characterized by the highest qualities and gmndest form that could be imagined. y the deity were ne=ir. af such a figure being considered quivalent to the loss of the favor of the deity whose image it was This was itilatry. me time, owing to the vast number of dutiful and grand statues of go+ t,h:lu: gradually arose a feeling of the deificatian o’f xnan and a stru,&e to become mo* -and more, like thes8 beings ,af noble human form and divine presence.
Consider only their primary mythus of the creation. The gods having got the giant Ymor slain-a giant mscle by warm winds and much confused work out of the conflict. of frost and fire-determined ~1 mnstrnnting n. world with him. His blood nrnde the sti ; his flesh was the land ; the rocks, his bones ; of his evebrows they formed Asgard, their gods’ dwelling ; his skill was the great blue vault of immensity, and the brains of it became the clouds. What a hgper-I3robdignagian business ! Untamed tklought ; great, giantlike, enormous!
Everywhere in nature was felt the presence of august invisible beings ; in the sky, with its luminaries and clouds ; on the sea, with its fickle, changeful movements ; on the earth, with its lofty peaks, its plains and rivers It seemed that msn himself, and everything around him, was upheld by divine power, and his career was marked out for him by a rigid fate which even the gods could not alter, should they wish it on occasion. He was indeed free to act, but the consequences of his action were settled beforehand.