Does Loki create the Yggdrasil tree at the end of season 2?

The season 2 finale of Loki just aired on Disney+, and it was a whopper. Beware SPOILERS below!

So at the end of the finale, Loki — once the most selfish person in the Marvel Cinematic Universe — took it upon himself to stop the Temporal Loom from destroying millions of alternate timelines. He did this by destroying the Loom and somehow taking hold of the fraying timelines himself, preserving untold numbers of universes from extinction by spaghettification. How did he manage that? I don’t know, he’s a god, they can do stuff.

Anyway, by the end of the show, it looked like Loki was sitting on a sort of throne, holding these millions of strands in place. It’s an inversion of what he always wanted. Loki’s goal was to rule. Now he has his seat of power, but he’s only holding it to help others, not for himself. In fact, he kind of has a crap job: he may have to sit here keeping the timelines intact for eternity.

Another fun note is that the network of timelines kind of resembled branches of Yggdrasil, the holy tree from Norse mythology. But was that literally Yggdrasil?

Is that the Yggdrasil tree at the end of Loki season 2?

To be clear, I don’t think the network of timelines was the literal Yggdrasil, also known as the World Tree. This is because Yggdrasil, so far as we know, already exists in the MCU. It’s been mentioned or seen in Thor, Captain America: The First Avenger and Thor 2: The Dark World. And we know that other staples of Norse mythology like Asgard and the Bifrost exist in the MCU, so why wouldn’t Yggdrasil?

However, symbolically, Loki was definitely drawing a parallel between Yggdrasil and the new network of timelines that Loki has to manage. In Norse mythology, Yggdrasil serves as a kind of hub between the Nine Worlds, with every branch and root connecting to a different world. Meanwhile, Loki now literally holds the strands of millions of different universes in his hands. In a way, he is Yggdrasil.

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