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Odin and his brothers had successfully destroyed almost all of the Frost Jötnar, and more importantly their source, Ymir.  From his body they fashioned the entire cosmos.  Ymir's skull became the sky, with his brains as clouds.  Sparks from Muspelheim were hurled up to become the stars. Ymir's flesh was made into the earth; mountains were formed from his bones, and grass and trees from his hair.  The oceans were formed from Ymir's sweat – or possibly blood, as in some versions of the myth.  Worms (or maggots) emerged from the corpse of Ymir, and became beings known as dwarfts.  Four of these were instructed to hold up the sky and prevent it from falling.  They were named Nordi, Sundri, Austri and Vestri, corresponding to their positions in the north, south, east and west of the world.  Other dwarfs emerged and went to live in an underground realm called Nidavellir. The sun and the moon came to be when the Aesir were angered by the arrogance of a human.  He had named his children Sól and Máni, in honour of their brightness and beauty.  The gods punished this be exiling the children to the sky where they would ride in chariots carrying the sun and moon.  The Jötunn Nótt and her son Dagr (night and day) were also sent into the sky aboard chariots of their own to ride around the world.  The sun and moon were pursued by two wolves.  These were the children of Jötnar, named Sköll and Hati Hróðvitnisson, and were destined to chase the sun and the moon until the day of Ragnarök, when they would finally catch and devour them.