Ginnungagap
Ginnungagap
5
REALM · Void
GI
PWR6
Common
GRD4
The yawning void between fire and ice — the primordial space from which the first beings emerged.[S1] [S2]
The Divine Atlas
Void · norse pantheon
DA-NOR-001
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About this card
Ginnungagap is the 'yawning gap' at the center of Norse creation: Niflheim (ice) lay to the north, Muspelheim (fire) to the south, and between them the void where rime and frost formed [S2]. From this gap, the first living being — the ice-giant Ymir — and the cow Auðhumbla emerged [S1][S2]. Ginnungagap is not a 'place' so much as the primordial condition of the world before it had shape [S2].