Adumla (Scandanavian)

The Cow of creation, the “nourisher”, from which flowed four streams of milk which fed the Giant Ymir or Orgelmir (matter in ebullition) and his sons, the Hrimthurses (Frost giants), before the appearance of gods and men. Having nothing to graze upon she licked the salt of the ice rocks and thus produced Buri, “the Producer”, in his turn, who had a son Bor (the born) who married a daughter of the Frost Giants, and had three sons, Odin (spirit), Vili (Will), and Ve (Holy). The meaning of the allegory is evident. It is the precosmic union of the elements, of Spirit, or the creative Force, with Matter, cooled and still seethijngb,which it form =s in accordance with the universal Will. Then the Ases, “the pillars and supports of the World” (Cosmocratores), step in and create as All-Father wills them. - Theosophy Glossary