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  Odin - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Odin is associated with the concept of the Wild Hunt, a noisy, bellowing movement across the sky, leading a host of the slain, directly comparable to Vedic Rudra.
Odin was a compulsive seeker of wisdom, consumed by his passion for knowledge, to the extent that he sacrificed one of his eyes (which one is unclear) to Mímir, in exchange for a drink from the waters of wisdom in Mímir's well.
Odin's son Balder, a god of light, shares some of Jesus' traits as a youthful "dying and rising" god, but unlike in the case of latter, his resurrection fails and he has to remain in the underworld.
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 US Bazaar.com : Encyclopedia Pages : Odin
Odin is associated with the concept of the Wild Hunt, a noisy, bellowing movement across the sky, leading a host of the slain.
Odin is said to be a healer, hinting at shamanistic origins, as he is god of magic and prophecy, common practices in cultures in which shamans are prominent.
Odin was said to have learned the mysteries of seid from the Vanic goddess and völva Freyja, despite the un-warrior-like connotations of using magic.
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 Odin - TvWiki, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Odin probably rose to prominence during the Migration period, gradually displacing Tyr at the head of the pantheon in West and North Germanic cultures.
According to the Prose Edda, Odin was a son of Bestla and Borr and brother of Vé and Vili and together with these brothers he cast down the frost giant Ymir and created the world from Ymir's body.
Odin was a compulsive seeker of wisdom, consumed by his passion for knowledge, to the extent that he sacrificed one of his eyes (which one this was is unclear) to Mimir, in exchange for a drink from the waters of wisdom in Mimir's well.
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 Pagan News - Pagan News & Information
Odin was a son of Bestla and Bor and brother of VeVé and Vili and together with these brothers he cast down the frost giant Ymir and created the world from Ymirs body.
Odin was a compulsive seeker of wisdom, consumed by his passion for knowledge, to the extent that he sacrificed his eye to Mimir, in exchange for a drink from the waters of wisdom in Mimirs well.
Odins son Thor gives his name to "Thors Day", Thursday (torsdag, donderdag or "thunderday" as Thor is the god of thunder), and his wife Frigg to Friday (fredag, vrijdag).
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 Odin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Odin is considered to be the supreme god of late Germanic and Norse mythology.
Odin's son Balder, a god of light, shares some of Jesus' traits (who was called the light) as a youthful "dying and rising" god, but unlike in the case of latter, his resurrection fails and he has to remain in the underworld.
Odin, along with the other Norse Gods and Goddesses, is worshipped by Germanic pagan reconstructivist groups and a smattering of people throughout the world, mostly in Northern Europe, Northern America and Australia.
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 Odin Summary
Old Norse (Viking Age) connotations of Odin lie with "poetry, inspiration" as well as with "fury, madness." Odin left his eye in the purifying waters of Mimir's spring in order to gain the wisdom of the ages.
Valkyries were Odin's beautiful battle maidens that went out to the fields of war to select and collect the worthy men who died in battle to come and sit in Valhalla, feasting and battling until they had to fight in the final battle, Ragnarök.
The last battle where Scandinavians attributed a victory to Odin was the Battle of Lena in 1208 [3].
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 Informat.io on Odin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Odin (Old Norse Óðinn) is considered the chief god in Norse mythology and Norse paganism, like the Anglo-Saxon Woden continuing Proto-Germanic *Wōdinaz or *Wōđanaz.
By the giantess Grid, Odin was the father of Vídar, and by Rinda he was father of ValiVale.
For example, in Phillip Reeve's Hungry City Chronicles, Odin is an orbital weapon capable of delivering highly destructive energy blasts to any point on the globe.
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 ipedia.com: Odin Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Odin was a son of Bestla and Bor and brother of Vé and Vili and together with these brothers he cast down the frost giant Ymir and created the world from Ymir's body.
Odin fathered his most famous son Thor on Jord 'Earth'.
By the giantess Gríðr, Odin was the father of Víðarr and by Rind he was father of Vali.
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 Tiwaz (Asgardian God)
Buri grew wise and strong and took a Frost Giantess wife and was succeeded by a son, Borr.
Hangatyr, the "god of the hanged" as one of Odin's names; probably inherited from Tyr in his role as judge) and goes back to a Proto-Germanic Tîwaz, continuing Proto-Indo-European Dyeus, originally the chief god, the precursor also of e.
Tîwaz was overtaken in popularity and in authority by both Odin and Thor at some point before the Migration Age.
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 Odin - AOL Music
For other meanings of Odin, Woden or Wotan see Odin (disambiguation),...
Odin is a son of Bor and Bestla.
Download, listen and watch Odin music, mp3's, song lyrics, music videos, Internet radio, live performances, concerts, and more on AOL Music.
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 Woden (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Woden is the Old English name as used by the Anglo-Saxons for the Germanic god Woden, known more commonly as the Norse god Odin.
Wodens-hill, older name for the centre of Woodnesborough, Kent.
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 Odinic Rite : Sirchin
Odinic Rite (OR) is a Germanic Pagan organization whose aims are to promote all aspects of Germanic paganism, termed Odinism after the chief god of Norse mythology, Odin.
OR Great Moot 2006 Greetings Once again brothers and sisters from across Odin's Holy Nation gathered in London for the annual Great Moot.
Video: Interview with Heimgest, ldr of the Odinic Rite
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