2 myths
Myths, legends, and mystical writings about North from across Jewish tradition.
2 myths on JewishMythology.com retell how Jewish tradition imagines north, drawn from the Hebrew Bible, Midrash, Talmud, Kabbalah, and later Jewish literature. Each story below synthesizes primary sources into a single narrative; follow any myth to read it, and from there into the source passages behind it.
God sealed east, west, and south where sky meets earth, then left the north open. Any pretender claiming divinity would fail the unfinished quarter.
Out of the north the storm came with cloud, fire, and wind. Ezekiel named what he could. Behind the vision, four shells tried to choke the light.
