Yggdrasil

Yggdrasil is an immense and central sacred tree in Norse cosmology. Around it exists all else, including the Nine Worlds.  Yggdrasil  is central to the cosmos and considered very holy. The gods go to Yggdrasil daily to assemble at their traditional governing assemblies. The branches of Yggdrasil extend far into the heavens, and the tree is supported by three roots that extend far away into other locations. This information was provided by Wikipedia, and there are other versions of a giant World’s Tree  (Orbis Terrarum Arbore) in several cosmogonies . Imagining the world as a tree is a nice idea – I made a less solemn and more trivial version of the Yggdrasil, oil on canvas 60 X 100 cm

Two more smaller paintings (40 X 40, oil on plywood.) “Chess” and “Jongleur”

2 thoughts on “Yggdrasil

  1. The world tree is an interesting concept and I like the way you pictured it with wit and deep understanding of things oh so human.
    I also love the other twoChess as well as the juggler (Jongleur)

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