Status Updates From Odin: Der dunkle Gott und s...

What? Done already? And where was the stuff to Odin as a queer figure that he mentioned before and claimed to talk about? Why only talk about mostly dangerous neopaganism and their idiotic christian hatred (but not the similar about progressives) and only shortly how some references to Odin are not a problem?

After all this information about Odin stuff, real and fake, among völkisch academics and racists, it is suprising that Hitler himself had no interest in it any further than the Wagner opera and it is due to his anti-academic feelings.

His criticism of Grimm and his Deutsche Mythologie sounds exactly like mine when I see people drawing the wildest connection to the norse gods.

Oh, so this obsession with Odin and the Norse was primarily in the more educated strata of society. That would explain why the norse gods were such a big thing among authors but not among the folktales that I have seen so far, there they are incredibly rare. Even the fake Ostara was more present.

Now the Edda and norse mythology is equated with celtic culture. Oh boy, I am not surprised but I did not expect it either.

So Faroese ballads showed Odin rather as a demon. That fits.

Oh boy, first this hype for India as the origin of all civilization and now equating Odin somehow with Buddha... well... not THAT surprising to be honest.

I really have to keep in mind how these protestants considered the Edda to have remnants of the true christian faith and that was destroyed the catholic church and so had to be better than the catholics. That anti-catholic strain is still very present today.

And connecting Atlantis with Scandinavia etc? Hm, that would explain a few things later during Nazi times.

Odin as attractive? That change was not something I expected to see, even in christian times. I wonder whether that is due to the desire to connect Odin with some mythical forefathers that he describes here.

How does he know that this bavarian "Waudlgaul" has anything to do with Wodan/Odin? It is pretty far removed from the norse or the continental germanics. Wouldn't it be more likely, like he points out in another example, that what some literati wrote filtered down to the masses? And sure as hell, as he points out, none of this can be used to "reconstruct" the pre-christian believes.

These later examples of Odin from christian times really don't seem like Odin at all but rather like the devil who was simply called Odin. Especially the deals and how and where you summon him to get rich.

I am not surprised to read that christian missionaries were more likely to encounter Thor than Odin.

He makes a good point in that there is not match in common between sami shaminism and the Edda and Odin is also no one who learns his powers and knowlegde to help his community, he does it for personal gain, and so he cannot be a shaman. And I am sure I know some people who use this very broad definition of shamanism that he talks about.

So Berserkers were not nearly as present in the old norse texts as their modern day popularity suggests.

I had completely forgotten that the prologe of Snoris Edda states that the Aesir came from Troy, and apparently the Ynglinga Saga portrays them as humans with magic powers. And considered how Odin practices magic considered unmanly and feminine and he is also a shapeshifter, I really wonder why Queer activists use Loki today and not Odin.

So only Snorri claims Heimdall to be a son of Odin but based on other texts, Heimdall might have no father but nine mothers.

That dwarves are the bad guys in this origin story of the Skaldenmeet is unusual for me.

This depiction of Odin and sleipnir depicts neither sleipnir nor Odin like in all these common images. Odin looks more like a courtjester and sleipnir has 8 legs only in the sense that he his lover legs are split in two and held together by braces or something.

So if the middle place in a triad suggest superior status like some people suggest that would mean in some of these older depictions, Thor is superior to Odin. So maybe Odin wasn't the allfather back then.

So the Odin of the Eddas is promarily based on the image that poets had of him.

the images of the afterlive among the norse germanics were not uniform and were contradictory. I never heard of this sea-goddess Ran who takes in the drowned ones. And the fallen warriors were thought to be in Odin's hall at the same time that they were in their grave mounts. Place Walhalla is not as old as the image of Hel taking in everyone. And Freya has a warrior's hall as well, just barely mentioned.

So he speculates that "Mercurius" aka Wodan/Odin might be connected to the soldier saint Mercuriius of Caesaria as he was associated with dog-headed companions according to one alexandrian legend and the Odin cult later had important wolf-masks. And up to the carolingian period odin was definitely venerated as a healing god, especially healing horses.

Oh, so the christian scribes of the middle ages got around the claim of Wodan as an ancestor by stating that he was a man who was claimed to be a god.

I bet Jacob Grimm had no evidence to support associating Phol in the merseburg spells with Balder. The author states that Phol was also associated with Odin, Thor, Frey, Ull and even the apostle Paul and the greek god Apollon. And apparently Wodan/Odin was once associated with healing and only in the middle-age north did that recede significantly.

Wodan becoming a supreme god because of influence from roman emperpor cult. That is at least an interesting thought.

Fascinating how all these people saying this or that about Odin never bring up any references to Mercurius, Mithras or celtic gods.

I suspect that he won't really go into leftwing craziness. Granted, Loki is more used for that rather than Odin.

what about leftists? None of them like Odin? He doesn't mention them.