Nine Insufferable Nights – The Initiation of Freyr (Skírnismál, Poetic Edda)

Sources: Skírnismál (“The Speech of the Shining One”) of the Poetic Edda, and from Snorri Sturlusson´s Prose Edda. Music for this video: Peregrin. Songs: Skudrinka, Branle d´Ecosse, Ai-vist-dur. (www.myspace.com Thanks to Peregrin for letting me use your music! Video, translations and interpretations by Maria Kvilhaug. About poem: Ever since the 19th century, the Skírnismál has been considered a “typical fertility myth” where the Sun God (Freyr) wakes up the slumbering Earth Goddess (Gerdr) after winter. This outdated interpretation bases itself on the preconception that all pre-Christian religions were about fertility and agricultural cycles and completely disregards the fact that in Old Norse myths, the Sun is female and considered among the goddesses, a fact that is enforced by the Old Norse language itself, where the word for sun (Sól) is a feminine noun and the fact that the poem itself describes the woman Gerdr, NOT Freyr, as having bright arms that illuminate all the worlds and which brighten heaven and the ocean. The first scholar to really break up with the old paradigm was Gro Steinsland who in the 1990´s argued that the poem is an initiation story where the goal of initiation is kingship through Sacred Sarriage with a giantess (Gerdr), who represents the land over which the king is to rule (be married to), the giantesses representing the land, earth, the feminine primeval forces, the ancestral clan mother. (Read Steinsland for more info about this hypothesis …

Toronto Police Headquarters @ College & Bay Street… Three sculptures created by Eldon Garnet are found at the entrance to Toronto Police Headquarters. The theme is definately unmistakenly Freemasonic, with the feature of the “female police officer” finishing off the capstone to the pyramid at the entrance of the police station with the “masonic trowel” (an implement found on every masonic temples alter), with the entry to the police station also matched by a domed pyramid. Around the corner is a “egyptian obelisk” to match and complement the pyramid at the front of the police station. The boy pulling the obelisk with a wagon is bizarre and creepy indeed, considering every student of pagan antiquities knows that an “egyptian obelisk” is an obvious “phalic symbol” of male strength and fertility power, but why is this young boy pulling the obelisk in a wagon??? Is this an artistic reference to paedophilia? I have no idea, but the artist Eldon Garnet cannot be reached for comment, even though I have emailed him more than once to ask him what his intent in these sculptures were. Another interesting note is that this obelisk situation at the jutting out of Bay street that takes a jog to the east at its location, one will notice if they look straight north “up Bay Street” as far as one can see, that 3 pyramids are also noticeable on a rooftop in the horizon about a mile up the road, which is kitty corner to the old “jesuit headquarters for Canada” (which has now moved). The …