(1) “Hearing I ask, from the holy races, from Heimdall's sons, both high and low,
thou wilt, Valfather, that well I relate old tales I remember of men long ago.
(2) I remember yet the giants of yore, who gave me bread in the days gone by,
nine worlds I knew, the nine in the tree, with mighty roots beneath the mold.
(59) Now do I see the Earth anew, rise all green from the waves again.
(64) There shall the righteous rulers dwell, and happiness ever there shall they have.
(65) There comes from on high, all power to hold, a mighty Lord, all lands He rules.”
Snippets from ‘The POETIC EDDA’
‘Lays of the Gods,’ Voluspo, Vol #1
The wise woman’s prophecy.
Translated by Henry Adams Bellows.
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Formerly, it was an era of concord and treaty,
a time when the Humanistic Renaissance of man
rediscovered the sleeping arts and philosophies
of the ancient Greeks and Romans…
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A time advanced when
Man revived individual vision as
a corollary set within the boundaries of
imaginative fraternity: initiatives placed as
meaningfulness on shelves, bric-a-brac policies
to be accepted or rejected as the heaving of breasts…
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Once unwavering,
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Heimdall sounded his great horn
while hailing Ragnarok (doom of the gods)
at the onset of Fimbulvetr (the winter of all winters)
when the wolf Skoll would lastly devour the sun, and
Hati, his angry brother, would eat the moon….
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During a time of great planetary transition,
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Loki, son of Cruel-Striker, (brooding in the crags)
mocked humanities efforts. Ways forged in prevision
of novel societal stratagems (lacking fairness and justice)
encroaching on parishes as snakes along the unguarded
paths of egalitarian shapeshifters…
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All the Warriors joined together
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RAISE THE HORN
FILL IT WITH HONEY
TOAST THE BATTLE
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And while wedges were being driven between all that
was intended as good and honorable, lightning etched a sharp
line through the heavens. Thor… riding his chariot laughing, as
he sought Jormungand, the Midgard Serpent, for reckoning…
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Raising their swords in pledge, all the Warriors cried out:
‘THE TIME HAS COME FOR ALL MEN TO REAP WHAT THEY HAVE SOWN.’
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With all the ideals (and failures) of modern imagination,
disastrous policies rooted in murky subterranean pits,
politics cloaked on the surface as abundant atolls,
moistened with a dew of false terrestrial peace,
set amidst a forming Tempest…. LOOK UP!
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A GREAT LIGHT
is nearing,
and soon following,
a new and beautiful world
will rise on the ruins of the old….
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© richard lloyd cederberg
6/2023
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Isaiah 11:6-9 describes the Kingdom Age as such:
“The wolf will live with the lamb,
the leopard will lie down with the goat,
the calf and the lion and the yearling together;
and a little child will lead them.
The cow will feed with the bear,
their young will lie down together,
and the lion will eat straw like the ox.
The infant will play near the cobra’s den,
and the young child will put its hand
into the viper’s nest.
They will neither harm nor destroy
on all my holy mountain,
for the earth will be filled with
the knowledge of the Lord
as the waters cover the sea….”
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NORSE CHARACTERS:
Thor
Heimdall
The wolf ‘Skoll’
Skoll’s brother ‘Hati’
‘Loki’ son of Cruel-Striker
Jormungand – The Midgard Serpent
EVENTS:
Ragnarok – Doom of the gods
Fimbulvetr – The Winter of all Winters

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