Mani’s Family Tree

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Family

• Mundilfari(parent),Sol(sibling)

  Mundilfari named his son Máni and daughter Sól after the moon and sun. The gods, angered by his presumption, set the siblings to drive the actual celestial bodies across the sky, as told in Gylfaginning.

Enemy of

• Hati

  Hati, son of Fenrir, endlessly pursues Máni across the night sky. At Ragnarök, Hati catches and devours the moon, completing the darkness that accompanies the end of the world.

Slain by

• Hati

  At Ragnarök, Hati finally catches and devours Máni the moon, plunging the world into total darkness alongside the loss of the sun.

Associated with

• Bil,Hjuki

  Máni snatched the children Bil and Hjúki from the earth as they carried water from the well Byrgir on the pole Simul, and set them to accompany him across the night sky.