“It’s the end of the day, but it feels like dawn, and a new beginning. It comes to me that both twilight periods are, in fact, symmetrical events on opposite sides of midnight, a cycle of endless creation and destruction, an Ouroboros.”
~ Florian Armas, The Shamans at the End of Time
~ Florian Armas, The Shamans at the End of Time
This is another one of those balloons that I had to build to get out of my brain, a blind worm eating it's tail, and really what better day to post it?
This idea centered on the idea that Jormungandr doesn't particularly do anything significant before Ragnarok other than hold on and then let go of his tail. He is not a catalyst, waking him doesn't start the event, he is nothing more than a meeting alert message. So why does he have to be big enough to circle the world - was that to spice up a rather bland myth? Wouldn't it be more convenient to have him centrally located? How close to his head and tail on the Earth would you have to be to even notice it was time?
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