Language, in the last analysis, is not a human invention that happens to name a world already there. It is a late, creaturely participation in Logos — the ordering Word that precedes every tongue and every science.
“I’ve been doing a treatment on the world Sheol in the Bible, meaning grave, hell, pit, hole, underworld, experience of the wicked, etc. Often shown in the act of swallowing metaphorically.
The mythology of the Norse, attested primarily in thirteenth-century Icelandic manuscripts, preserves a demonstrable inheritance from Proto-Indo-European (PIE) religious and mythological structures.