Theos-Talk Archives (September 1996 Message tt00007)

Dear Brenda,

Could you please give more background on Voluspa?

I do not know anything about it. "The Secret Doctrine" gives
just one reference to Voluspa (v.1, p.367) as regards the mundane
egg. Encyclopaedia Britannica says:

> The mythological cycle [of Poetic Edda] is introduced by Voluspa
> ("Sibyls' Prophecy"), a sweeping cosmological myth that reviews
> in flashing scenes the history of the gods, men, and dwarfs, from
> the birth of the world to the death of the gods and the world's
> destruction.
>
> -- V.4, p.363

> "The Voluspa ("Sibyl's Prophecy") was a striking poem on the
> history of the world of gods, men, and monsters, from the
> beginning until the "twilight of the gods." Many passages in the
> poem are obscure, but most modern scholars agree that it was
> composed in Iceland about the year 1000, when the people were
> turning from the old religion to the new.
>
> -- V.27, p.11

Sounds interesting, and should provide interesting material for
comparative studies in the light of theosophy.

Max

[This is in response to what Brenda wrote.]