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Concepts of time and space play a major role in the Old Norse corpus's presentation of Norse cosmology. While events in Norse mythology describe a somewhat linear progression, various scholars in ancient Germanic studies note that Old Norse texts may imply or directly describe a fundamental belief in cyclic time.
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"The Ash Yggdrasil" (1886) by Friedrich Wilhelm Heine. Yggdrasil (from Old Norse Yggdrasill) is an immense and central sacred tree in Norse cosmology.Around it exists all else, including the Nine Worlds.
The Nine Realms may refer to: DreamWorks Dragons: The Nine Realms , an American animated television series in the How to Train Your Dragon franchise The Níu Heimar ("Nine Worlds") of Norse cosmology
Norse, Nordic, or Scandinavian mythology, is the body of myths belonging to the North Germanic peoples, stemming from Old Norse religion and continuing after the Christianization of Scandinavia as the Nordic folklore of the modern period.
So, for example, the Australian Central Desert province is in the Australasian realm (6), is the 9th biogeographic province in that realm, and its biome falls within "warm deserts and semideserts" (7), so it is coded 6.9.7. The realms and provinces of the scheme are hence coded as follows:
Urdhva Loka - the realms of the gods or heavens; Madhya Loka – the realms of the humans, animals and plants; Adho Loka – the realms of the hellish beings or the infernal regions; Jain cosmology uses the terms loka and aloka to describe the inhabitable and uninhabitable spaces in the universe.
The one subsequent hundred worlds are viewed through the lenses of the Ten suchnesses and the three realms of existence (Jpn. san-seken) to formulate three thousand realms of existence. [9] These hundred aspects of existence leads to the concept of "three thousand realms in a single moment (Jap. Ichinen Sanzen)." [10]