Odin King of the Gods the all father you know the guy but did you know that Odin once hung himself from a tree and plucked out his own eye all to gain wisdom in order to avoid a future where he is eaten by Loki's son a giant wolf yeah Odin's whole story is a trip so let's tell it and start in the beginning of Norse mythology where there was just chaos nothing also called ginon gagap no seriously it was called ginon gagap the nothing the chaos was called gagap and above and below gagap there was
eternal ice and fire called nilheim and muspelheim and eventually the two merged within gong gagap and out of that the first two beings emerged the Giant imir and a giant cow adum from emir's sweat more Giants were born and the cow licked an icy rock into the shape of the first God Buri Buri thought that there must be a better way to have children and sweating and licking rocks so he got sweaty with a giantest and licked and rocked her and they had a son bore who would then father Odin and his two brothers and
then Odin and his brothers killed imir and emir's blood caused a flood that drowned the cow Buri bore Odin's mom everybody was the first Petra side metricide genocide grandfather side every side which is why I call this episode this was the beginning of what we now know as Norse mythology and out of emir's giant corpse Odin with the help of his brothers created the Realms well melheim and nilheim already existed but Udin created Alim home of the dwarfs Alim home of the elves Asgard home of the Isel Gods who know they were not actually called
as Guardians that's just Marvel and my favorite X-O of movies you get it that was I'm so childish vanaheim home of the vaner Gods midgard our Earth and yonim which is where the only two giants who were able to escape Odin's genocide fled to and repopulated their race with a lot of sweating and rock licking the Giants then became better known as the ynar or the Yun for Singler and weren't necessarily giant beings they often looked humanlike and were the forever enemy of the Gods in Asgard so the stage is set the nine Realms exist
and Odin ruled over all of them from his throne in Asgard married freak and actually freak that's the name I'm not not cussing and allowed a giant aun to live on Asgard as a god aun God he became Blood Brothers with and who Odin swore would always have a place at his side that Jun was looki who would later cause the death of Odin's sons while lui's own son would cause the death of Odin himself but Odin did not know that yet because he wasn't yet the allseeing father at that point Udin could not see
fate itself but he felt like he had to in order to properly rule over all the nine Realms so after his Waring days of uniting the Realms and establishing order were over Odin traded in his Spear and armor for a top tier Ganda of the great cos play and wandered the Realms known only as The Wanderer because his originality and naming himself was not one of his traits on his journey Udin learned the ways of every culture every trade of magic he became incredibly wise and eventually he learned of magical Runes of Prophecy and wisdom
carved into igra the Tree of Life carved into that tree by the creators and masters of Faith themselves the Norse norn who we the tapestry of Fate made up of billions of strings each representing the life and fate of a being including the life and fates of the Gods themselves because in nor mythology the gods are not Immortal the fates told Udin that if he wants the knowledge of reading the runes he has to test fate by hanging himself from the Tree of Life for nine nights and nine days and as if this wasn't enough
he had to also stab himself in the chest with a spear beforehand and also kind of just realized that I structured this thing poorly because I already told you in the beginning that he hung from a tree so yeah surprise surprise he did that and he survived which by the way is okay that I spoiled that in the beginning because I hate movies that halfway through they put the lead in like artificial mortal danger as if we're going to think Odin dies halfway through when the movie is called the life of Odin yeah I'm looking
at you Guardians of the Galaxy 3 Peter qu you really in space because of the music n come [Music] on after nine nights and nine days Odin gained the knowledge he was seeking he understood the magic of runes and that gave him the ability to see the fate of the cosmos and now Odin was able to see the end of that Cosmos he was able to see Ragnarok which ended with him being devoured by a wolf and because being swallowed by a random wolf has lowkey written all over it Udin quickly figured out that the
wolf was his blood brother Loki's son so he made Loki reveal the truth and learned that even though Loki wasn't as guardian now Isel God damn it Marva AEL God he was an a as guardian is just catching know they asard as Guardians catchy even though Loki was an Isel God now he had three secret monstrous children with a yuton woman those children were the giant wolf fenri the giant World Serpent yander and a girl that that was half beautiful and half a rotten corpse hell Odin saw that all three children had a role to
play in the end of the world in Ragnarok so he banished the serpent to the oceans at the far end of our world thank you Odin for sending it to Earth he chained up fenri and exiled the girl hell into the underworld but that wasn't enough because Odin was so desperate to fight fate itself and prevent Ragnarok that he sought out more wisdom and for that he went to see mimir the wisest of all the ynar guarding The Well of wisdom which sits at the foot of igil containing water that grants ultimate wisdom to whoever
drinks it and it goes without saying that Odin really wanted to drink of that water and because it was for noble cause like saving the cosmos mimir told him that in order to be granted a sip Odin had to rip out his own eye for no apparent reason other than every everybody here seemingly being sadistic as hell like I held my tongue on the tree thing but unnecessary spear wound on top of the nine days and night nights of hanging now the eye my guys were just trolling Odin for real but for Odin there was
no sacrifice too great for the sake of saving all life so he ripped out his eye without hesitation drank from The Well of wisdom and now Odin was the wisest thing in the cosmos which ultimately led him to learn that fate is inevitable Ragnarok was bound to happen there was nothing Odin could do to stop it and it would be signaled by the death of Odin's own favorite [Music] son which no it's not Thor I know some of yall into this story right now like leaning forward and you're like Thor no but n Odin's favorite
son is not Thor it's actually Bal the God of Light still even though he knew it was inevitable Odin was determined to not go down without a fight and knowing what's coming him and the goddess Freya basically came up with a drafting system for the army that would face off against evil in the war at the end of times they created the Valkyries to recruit people for Valhalla the Valkyries were beautiful women that would scour the battlefields to collect the souls of the bravest slain Warriors and bring those souls to Valhalla where they would enter
an eternal training arc fight all day drink all night and be healed over I guess the rest of the night rinse and repeat until the day Ragnarok calls and all the Warriors would storm out of valhalla's 550 doors each so wide that 800 Warriors can storm through side by side an army of lead Warriors each Warrior granted the title AER which translates to Army of one and believe it or not there also the name I gave to my P other than prepare the Army ofen did everything he could to avoid what he knew was meant
to be the trigger for Ragnarok the death of his son Baldor Udin and his wife went to every being in the cosmos animals plants humans Gods Giant and made them all swear an oath to never harm Bal the only thing that they forgot to ask was the missile to tree and decades later when they thought they were safe and Odin believed to maybe have successfully stopped the Ragnarok the all father was betrayed from a source he never expected his blood brother Loki Loki could never forgive Odin for locking away and exiling his children and he
built up hatred against Udin and his beloved Son Baldor and he worked tirelessly to find a way to kill Baldor and eventually found out that the mistleto tree never swore an oath to not harm Balor so looki made an arrow out of mistleto which was then used to kill Odin's son and was the beginning of the end the beginning of Ragnarok Odin was Furious but since he swore a Blood Oath to Lui he couldn't kill him so he thought of something that was somehow even more devious see Loki didn't just have three monstrous children that
Odin exiled Loki also had a family on Asgard a family of isah gods and Odin punished luki by tying him to a rock with the intestines of Loki's own isier son brah NOA so now Loki was tied to a rock with the intestines of his son but Udin made sure luki would suffer even more under drips of vicious poison above him that would drip on his forehead while Lui was unable to move and cause a pain so agonizing that it only cemented Loki's hatred for Asgard and Udin see in all of Odin's attempts to prevent
Ragnarok it was him training up fenri banishing yorong gandra and hell and Loki's anger over the treatment of his children and the pain Loki suffered in his eternal torture under poisonous drops tied to a rock with the intestines of yet another one of his children all that is what really caused Ragnarok because what Odin didn't know didn't foresee is that the army of evil consuming Asgard during Ragnarok will be led by luki himself Odin's wisdom and knowledge of the prophecy was the deciding factor in it being self-fulfilling fate could not be avoided Loki eventually Broke
Free from his captivity freed his children and with the help of his daughter who became the queen of the underworld and Su a fire giant hidden away in the Eternal fire of muspelheim Loki mustered up an army of evil and launched Ragnarok a war to end the world but I'll cover Ragnarok in another [Music] video you might have noticed that I didn't mention helheim as one of the nine Realms and that's because it's disputed that helheim is one of the nine Realms helheim is often thought to be a part of also known as Nel and
some state that nid is instead the ninth realm where others say nider is simply synonymous with SWAT alheim as the home of the dwarves and the simple truth is that the old noris mythology never really lists the nine Realms specifically so there's room for interpretation if there's even nine Realms and what the Realms are and I'm very happy to see you interpret what you think about that in the comments and this is always so cringe to say say but it's true a subscription helps this channel a lot a comment helps a lot a like helps
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