Purusha vs Ymir

The primordial cosmic being of Rigveda 10.90, the Purusha Sukta, whom the gods sacrificed so that the world could be made from his body: the sun from his eye, the moon from his mind, the sky from his head, the earth from his feet, and the four social classes from his mouth, arms, thighs, and feet.

Rigveda 10.90 says that from Purusha was born Viraj, and from Viraj Purusha again, a paradox of mutual origin. The gods then bound him as their sacrificial victim and made the ordered world from his divided body.

The Purusha Sukta (Rigveda 10.90) describes a cosmic Person with a thousand heads, eyes, and feet who covers the earth and extends beyond it. All creatures are a quarter of him; three quarters are immortal in heaven.

The first living being, formed when the fire of Muspelheim met the ice of Niflheim in the void of Ginnungagap. Ymir is the ancestor of all frost giants and, after being slain by Odin and his brothers, his body became the physical material of the world.

Ymir formed in the void of Ginnungagap where the fire of Muspelheim met the ice of Niflheim. Nourished by the cow Audhumla, he became the ancestor of the frost giants before being killed by Odin and his brothers, who used his body to construct the physical world.

According to Snorri Sturluson's *Prose Edda*, before there was anything else, there was Ginnungagap, a yawning void between the fire of Muspelheim and the ice of Niflheim. Where the rime and the sparks met and thawed, life quickened, and the first being, the giant Ymir, took shape from the dripping ice.