Ginnungagap
A teacher in the Netflix show Ragnarök writes this word on a chalkboard and explains to his students that it's meaning is the place where fire and ice meet, thus inspired by this fantastic word I blew the dust off this baby and then went to read more.....
Readers Digest version: Ginnungagap is an abys where all life began and where all life will end, the big bang theory only written in old Norse mythology. I found the read to be fascinating in an article you can find entitled "Norse Mythology for smart people," but the original simplification and the MUCH more encompassing ones I've found still bring me to volcanoes.
Not only do they shape our landscapes in ways such as this but their eruptions enrich the soil by providing iron, magnesium, and potassium. The most obvious examples are Hawaii and the area surrounded by mount Vesuvius, so lush and soil enriched in places where A) there wouldn't be land, and B) regions with otherwise nutrient deficient soil. The giver and taker of life. In short, the whole story can be an exercise in existentialism with a fatalist twist.
Anyway, about the photo if anyone is still here.... :) again, just below Summerland on the Wonderland Trail, couldn't figure out why I didn't like this pic until I cropped the trees off of the left and right making it much more succinct in it's presentation, I hope that you find it palatable... :)
Ginnungagap
A teacher in the Netflix show Ragnarök writes this word on a chalkboard and explains to his students that it's meaning is the place where fire and ice meet, thus inspired by this fantastic word I blew the dust off this baby and then went to read more.....
Readers Digest version: Ginnungagap is an abys where all life began and where all life will end, the big bang theory only written in old Norse mythology. I found the read to be fascinating in an article you can find entitled "Norse Mythology for smart people," but the original simplification and the MUCH more encompassing ones I've found still bring me to volcanoes.
Not only do they shape our landscapes in ways such as this but their eruptions enrich the soil by providing iron, magnesium, and potassium. The most obvious examples are Hawaii and the area surrounded by mount Vesuvius, so lush and soil enriched in places where A) there wouldn't be land, and B) regions with otherwise nutrient deficient soil. The giver and taker of life. In short, the whole story can be an exercise in existentialism with a fatalist twist.
Anyway, about the photo if anyone is still here.... :) again, just below Summerland on the Wonderland Trail, couldn't figure out why I didn't like this pic until I cropped the trees off of the left and right making it much more succinct in it's presentation, I hope that you find it palatable... :)