Keeping track of time by remembering where you came from.
Basic Days of The Week
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The month of October is the tenth month of the year and has thirty-one days. In 2014, October the First was on a Wednesday and October the Thirty-first was on a Friday. Halloween always falls on October the 31st.
Phonetics Breakdown
Norse Mythology
Throughout history, mankind has wondered at, pondered over, and reflected about what he finds within his surroundings. Looking upwards towards the heavens has always given him a better idea about his orientation, general location, and thus, a higher sense of security within the vast cosmos. Calendars, whether based on either celestial or terrestrial bodies, invoke a culture’s primal understanding and religious perspective bar none. Man’s recognition of his own limiting mortality ushers him to cherish the time allotted to him in a celebration of life, whether that be on earth or within the halls of Valhalla.
In Norse mythology, Máni was the man who drove the chariot that carried the Moon across the sky. He is the brother of Sunna the Sun and the son of Mundilfari... Máni flies through the night sky in his horse-driven chariot, chased by the wolf Hati.
Máni lights the way for hunters at night illuminating the forest with his silvery eyes... The tale of Hjuki and Bil is said to be the origin of the nursery rhyme Jack and Jill. At Ragnarok, the wolf will capture the Moon and devour him plunging the night into unbroken darkness.
The name Tyr means "god" and goes back to the original chief god in Norse mythology... Tuesday is derived from Tyr, the god of honorable war, the wrestler and the son of Odin.
Deriving from the Scandinavian Woden (Odin), chief god of Norse mythology... Odin is the god of war and death, but also the god of poetry and wisdom.
Thor is the red-haired and bearded god of strength, thunder and lightning in Norse Mythology...
As the wife of Odin, Frigg means "beloved" and is the foremost goddess of Norse mythology...
Loki is quite probably the most dynamic figure in Norse mythology...
The conception of the sun and the moon riding on chariots through the sky is evidently an ancient one among the Norse and other Germanic peoples...
Norse Realms
Yggdrasill is an immense mythical tree that connects the nine worlds in Norse mythology. Yggdrasil is attested in the Poetic Edda, compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources, and the Prose Edda... The branches of Yggdrasil extend far into the heavens, and the tree is supported by three roots that extend far away into other locations.
Miðgarðr (Middle Earth) is located in the middle of the world, below Asgard. Midgard and Asgard are connected by the Bifrost (The Rainbow Bridge)...
Múspellsheimr was created far to the south of the world as a burning hot place, filled with lava, flames, sparks and soot...