Was Odin Human? - Temple Illuminatus2024-03-29T13:46:51Zhttps://templeilluminatus.ning.com/forum/topics/was-odin-human?groupUrl=the-society-of-druidry&commentId=6363372%3AComment%3A3201872&groupId=6363372%3AGroup%3A273610&feed=yes&xn_auth=noYou might be right Poppy!tag:templeilluminatus.ning.com,2016-09-30:6363372:Comment:32364242016-09-30T04:17:19.103ZCarmen Elsa Irarragorri Wylandhttps://templeilluminatus.ning.com/profile/CarmenElsaIrarragorriWyland
<p style="text-align: center;">You might be right Poppy!</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">You might be right Poppy!</p> I would like to push that fig…tag:templeilluminatus.ning.com,2016-09-27:6363372:Comment:32354512016-09-27T11:20:09.649ZPoppy Whitehearthttps://templeilluminatus.ning.com/profile/JohnMichaelGill
<p>I would like to push that figure when Odin walked the Earth to 10,000 before the date that they said, when Giants walked the earth. 5.000 - 3,000 year old carvings? they can not carbon date stone or rock.. so they place the figure of 5.000 yr to go with what is written in the bible and the start of mankind .. </p>
<p>I would like to push that figure when Odin walked the Earth to 10,000 before the date that they said, when Giants walked the earth. 5.000 - 3,000 year old carvings? they can not carbon date stone or rock.. so they place the figure of 5.000 yr to go with what is written in the bible and the start of mankind .. </p> Also
In Germanic mythology, O…tag:templeilluminatus.ning.com,2016-06-06:6363372:Comment:31947082016-06-06T20:50:08.636ZCarmen Elsa Irarragorri Wylandhttps://templeilluminatus.ning.com/profile/CarmenElsaIrarragorriWyland
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<p style="text-align: center;">In <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanic_mythology" rel="nofollow" title="Germanic mythology">Germanic mythology</a>, <b>Odin</b> (from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Norse" rel="nofollow" title="Old Norse">Old Norse</a> <b>Óðinn</b>) is a widely revered god. In…</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">In <a rel="nofollow" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanic_mythology" title="Germanic mythology">Germanic mythology</a>, <b>Odin</b> (from <a rel="nofollow" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Norse" title="Old Norse">Old Norse</a> <b>Óðinn</b>) is a widely revered god. In <a rel="nofollow" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norse_mythology" title="Norse mythology">Norse mythology</a>, from which stems most of our information about the god, Odin is associated with healing, death, royalty, the gallows, knowledge, battle, sorcery, poetry, frenzy, and the runic alphabet, and is the husband of the goddess <a rel="nofollow" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frigg" title="Frigg">Frigg</a>. In wider Germanic mythology and <a rel="nofollow" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanic_paganism" title="Germanic paganism">paganism</a>, Odin was known in <a rel="nofollow" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_English" title="Old English">Old English</a> as <b>Wōden</b>, in <a rel="nofollow" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Saxon" title="Old Saxon">Old Saxon</a> as <b>Wōdan</b>, and in <a rel="nofollow" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_High_German" title="Old High German">Old High German</a> as <b>Wuotan</b> or <b>Wōtan</b>, all stemming from the reconstructed <a rel="nofollow" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Germanic_language" title="Proto-Germanic language">Proto-Germanic</a> theonym <b>*wōđanaz</b>.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Odin is a prominently mentioned god throughout the recorded history of the <a rel="nofollow" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanic_peoples" title="Germanic peoples">Germanic peoples</a>, from the Roman occupation of regions of Germania through the tribal expansions of the Migration Period and the <a rel="nofollow" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viking_Age" title="Viking Age">Viking Age</a>. Odin continued into the modern period to be acknowledged in rural folklore in all Germanic regions. References to Odin appear in place names throughout regions historically inhabited by the ancient Germanic peoples, and the day of the week Wednesday bears his name in many Germanic languages, including English.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">In <a rel="nofollow" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Saxon_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Anglo-Saxon England">Anglo-Saxon England</a>, Odin held a particular place as a <a rel="nofollow" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euhemerism" title="Euhemerism">euhemerized</a> ancestral figure among royalty, and he is frequently referred to as a founding figure among various other Germanic peoples, including the <a rel="nofollow" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langobards" class="mw-redirect" title="Langobards">Langobards</a> and in most of Scandinavia. Forms of his name appear frequently throughout the Germanic record, though narratives regarding Odin are primarily found in Old Norse works recorded in Iceland, primarily around the 13th century, texts which make up the bulk of modern understanding of Norse mythology.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">In Old Norse texts, Odin is depicted as one-eyed and long-bearded, frequently wielding a spear named <a rel="nofollow" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gungnir" title="Gungnir">Gungnir</a>, and wearing a cloak and a broad hat. He is often accompanied by his animal companions—the wolves <a rel="nofollow" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geri_and_Freki" title="Geri and Freki">Geri and Freki</a> and the ravens <a rel="nofollow" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huginn_and_Muninn" title="Huginn and Muninn">Huginn and Muninn</a>, who bring him information from all over <a rel="nofollow" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midgard" title="Midgard">Midgard</a>—and Odin rides the flying, eight-legged steed <a rel="nofollow" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleipnir" title="Sleipnir">Sleipnir</a> across the sky and into the underworld. Odin is attested as having <a rel="nofollow" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sons_of_Odin" title="Sons of Odin">many sons</a>, most famously the god <a rel="nofollow" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baldr" title="Baldr">Baldr</a> with Frigg, and is known by <a rel="nofollow" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_names_of_Odin" title="List of names of Odin">hundreds of names</a>. In these texts, Odin frequently seeks knowledge in some manner and in disguise (most famously by obtaining the <a rel="nofollow" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mead_of_Poetry" class="mw-redirect" title="Mead of Poetry">Mead of Poetry</a>), at times makes wagers with his wife Frigg over the outcome of exploits, and takes part in both the creation of the world by way of slaying the primordial being <a rel="nofollow" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ymir" title="Ymir">Ymir</a> and the gift of life to the first two humans <a rel="nofollow" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ask_and_Embla" title="Ask and Embla">Ask and Embla</a>. Odin has a particular association with <a rel="nofollow" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yule" title="Yule">Yule</a>, and mankind's knowledge of both the <a rel="nofollow" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runes" title="Runes">runes</a> and <a rel="nofollow" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skaldic_poetry" class="mw-redirect" title="Skaldic poetry">poetry</a> is also attributed to Odin.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">In Old Norse texts, Odin is given primacy over female beings associated with the battlefield—the <a rel="nofollow" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valkyries" class="mw-redirect" title="Valkyries">valkyries</a>—and he himself oversees the afterlife location <a rel="nofollow" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valhalla" title="Valhalla">Valhalla</a>, where he receives half of those who die in battle, the <a rel="nofollow" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einherjar" title="Einherjar">einherjar</a>. The other half are chosen by goddess <a rel="nofollow" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freyja" title="Freyja">Freyja</a> for her afterlife location, <a rel="nofollow" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%B3lkvangr" title="Fólkvangr">Fólkvangr</a>. Odin consults the disembodied, herb-embalmed head of the wise being <a rel="nofollow" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%ADmir" title="Mímir">Mímir</a> for advice, and during the foretold events of <a rel="nofollow" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ragnar%C3%B6k" title="Ragnarök">Ragnarök</a>, Odin is told to lead the einherjar into battle before being consumed by the monstrous wolf <a rel="nofollow" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fenrir" title="Fenrir">Fenrir</a>. In later folklore, Odin appears as a leader of the <a rel="nofollow" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_Hunt" title="Wild Hunt">Wild Hunt</a>, a ghostly procession of the dead through the winter sky. Odin is also particularly associated with charms and other forms of magic, such as in Old English and Old Norse texts.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Odin has been a frequent subject of study in <a rel="nofollow" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanic_studies" class="mw-redirect" title="Germanic studies">Germanic studies</a> and numerous theories surround the god. Some of these focus on Odin's particular relation to other figures, such as that Freyja's husband <a rel="nofollow" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%93%C3%B0r" title="Óðr">Óðr</a> appears to be something of an etymological doublet of the god, whereas Odin's wife Frigg is in many ways similar to Freyja, and that Odin has a particular relation to the figure of <a rel="nofollow" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loki" title="Loki">Loki</a>. Other approaches focus on Odin's place in the historical record, a frequent question being whether Odin is derived from <a rel="nofollow" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Indo-European_religion" title="Proto-Indo-European religion">Proto-Indo-European religion</a>, or whether he developed later in Germanic society. In the modern period, Odin has inspired numerous works of poetry, music, and other forms of media. He is venerated in most forms of the new religious movement <a rel="nofollow" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heathenry_%28new_religious_movement%29" title="Heathenry (new religious movement)">Heathenry</a>, together with other gods venerated by the ancient Germanic peoples; some focus particularly on him.</p>
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