Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-5951432-20140106032648

Please post your explanations for this tantalizing easter-egg.

My own:

Considering the translations of the runic scripts on the inner facing sides of the lids of the jars, I find a strong correspondence to the Ancient Norse and their description of the universe. For those of you that do not know here is a quote from the Prose Edda: " In the beginning there existed nothing save one vast abyss, called Ginnungagap, (chaotic pit), which was wholly void. One side of this abyss, called Muspell, faced towards the south, and was warm; the other, Niffl-heim, faced northwards, and was cold. Out of Niffl-heim there rose a spring, Hvergelmer, which existed before anything else was created. It was full of poisons, and its waters flowed by means of several great rivers into the abyss. The largest of these rivers was called Elivagar (the cold stormy waters), which penetrated farther than the others, but in proportion as it receded from its source flowed with a weaker current, until on reaching the centre its waters became so sluggish, that they could no longer resist the cold, and thus became ice. Still, as the rivers flowed on the ice accumulated, so that at length the whole abyss was filled up with ice and rime. But in the process of time also the heat from Muspell began to act on that portion of the ice the nearest to it, until the whole by degrees was thawed, and from the thaw was produced the giant Ymer, whose immeasurable bulk filled up a portion of the abyss. Ymer fell into a deep sleep, during which a man and a woman were generated under his left arm, and one foot begat a son upon the other. From these are descended the race of the Hrymthussar, or giants of the frost. At the same time that Ymer, or the evil principle (for the Edda tells us that he and all his race were evil), was produced from the contending elements, Alfadur, or the father of all things, created the cow, Audumbla, from whose udders flowed four streams of milk, by which Ymer was nourished. She herself procured sustenance by licking some stones on which the hoar frost still lay, and which were salt. By this process, within three days, they were moulded into a man who was called Bure. He had a son Bur or Borr, who married a maid of giant race named Beyzla, or Belsta, by whom he had three sons, Odin, Vile, and Ve. These three, shortly after their birth, slew the giant Ymer, the blood from whose wounds drowned the whole of the frost giants, with the exception of Bergelmer (the old man of the mountain), who escaped with his wife in a boat, and continued the race. After this, Borr's sons took Ymer's body and set it in the midst of the gulf Ginnungagap. Of his flesh they formed the earth, of his blood seas and waters, of his bones mountains, of his teeth rocks and stones, of his hair all manner of plants. They made the heavens out of his skull, and set four dwarfs, whose names were East, West, North, and South, at the four corners, to support it. They took also fires from Muspelheim and fixed them in heaven, above and below, to light up the heaven and the earth. And they determined the course of all meteors and heavenly bodies, some in the heavens, some under the heavens. Moreover, they threw up Ymer's brains into the air, where they became clouds, and formed Midgard of his eyebrows."

Now you can see how the translation would remind me of the creation of the universe. I do not think that the jars predict just armeggedon, but, rather, rebirth.

Here's why:

The runic translations:  GIANT - AUROCH - NEED; JOY - ICE - YEAR; GIFT - HORSE - LAKE; MAN - AEDRA/AESIR; JOY - ? - TORCH

The first thing That I notice is GIANT (as well everyone who reads from the left). Giants have incredible significance in the Eddas their exist to bring the start of the Gods (Ymer) and the end (Ragnarok). In the Edda they are called Hrymthussar (Frost Giants [read the above]) and they are the main antagonists to the Norse Pantheon. So when you look at the second translative rune the word ICE is denoted. I also notice the fact that it says lake and the two extremes TORCH and ICE. (Refer to Prose Edda excerpt). It says ICE-YEAR, the Norse prediction of Ragnarok states that before the end of the gods, there will be 4 seasons of consecutive winter, or a YEAR of winter (ICE). The interesting part is if read along with the Eddas it seems to go Giants rise, joy falls in year of ice, Odin (sometimes contexted with his horse) in the pond, also one of the translations suggests a tree (probably Yggsdrasil or the Cosmic Ash). I grow weary of trying to explain my reasoning.  