Why does the mythical dragon have to eat the world tree? It's all because of God's fornication.
Of course, in these works, evil can't beat justice, and the protagonist Thor always saves people at the most critical moment and smashes the devil's plot. (Ahem, the general style of the story)
But in the real Nordic mythology, the end of this war is that almost all gods and people were killed by demons, and the world was burned by a fire of the flame giant.
The two biggest reasons for the twilight of the gods are Fenrir's hatred for the gods, and nidhogg, the dragon, kept biting off the world tree, leaving the nine worlds helpless, and the world collapsed after everything in heaven and earth lost its aura. Why do dragons tirelessly destroy the world? Let's take a look today.
To find this answer, we must first know the prophecy of the goddess of fate about the twilight of the gods, which can be said to be the biggest fuse that leads to the deterioration of the relationship between gods and demons.
The prophecy said: One day, the sun stopped shining, the earth froze in Wan Li, the dragon Nidahog bit off the tree of the world, and the magic wolf Fenrir also took the opportunity to break away from the seal. They met Hella, the goddess of the underworld, on a ship made of dead people's nails and launched a decisive battle with the gods.
The result of the decisive battle was that Thor died, Odin was killed, and the fire giant burned the whole world.
Odin, who has always been supreme, can't accept this tragic ending. He's scared. He's scared. He sent Thor to look at the roots of the world tree. Sure enough, he saw a black dragon eating the world tree. This dragon is nidhogg.
Seeing this, some readers may ask, why didn't Thor stop the dragon? Why didn't he just pick up the magic hammer and give him a hammer? There will be no twilight of the gods.
Actually, Thor didn't want to kill nidhogg at that time, but he couldn't. Because he has seen that origin of nidhogg.
Nidhogg, originally a black dome, drifted to the root of the tree of the world, absorbed huge nutrition from the tree of the world, and then hatched and grew. It can be said that the tree of the world is the mother of dragons. Without the tree of the world, there would be no nidhogg today. So when Thor saw nidhogg intertwined with the tree of the world, he knew that if he wanted to kill the dragon, he had to destroy the tree of the world first, so he couldn't, so he had to choose to catch the undead from the underworld to feed the dragon, so as to slow down the devouring speed of the dragon.
And why did the dragon kill the tree that revived its own world? The reason is related to the fornication and tyranny of the gods. You know, the tree of the world is the most spiritual life between heaven and earth, and the breath of life contained in any branch of it can support a country, so the first nine realms of gods were born on nine branches of the tree of the world.
However, when Odin ruled the Shenting, his relatives and gods were ignorant every day, which brought great disasters to the creatures in the world (such as sacrificing 1000 human virgins as sacrifices, such as being immersed in the relationship between men and women all day). Even the tree of the world has been greatly polluted and withered. But Odin turned a blind eye to the evil deeds of these gods.
So, in order to put an end to these evils and make the tree of the world no longer suffer, the dragon "Nidahog" began to gnaw at the roots and destroy the world.
Ok, today's article is over. See you next time on the night of the gods' prophecy of the goddess of fate.