Monday, November 25, 2024

No, This Does NOT Mean I'm an Odinist. It Actually Means the Opposite


Is Odin considered a dark wizard in Norse mythology?
https://www.quora.com/Is-Odin-considered-a-dark-wizard-in-Norse-mythology/answer/Hans-Georg-Lundahl-1


Hans-Georg Lundahl
none/ apprx Masters in Latin (language) & Greek (language), Lund University
25.XI.2024
In Norse religion and mythology, Odin is a fairly complex figure, considered as:

  • creator god (along with two brothers, not solo, and only after killing a monster to get the material)
  • lord of heaven and of fates
  • lord of the brave dead, of the fallen
  • captain of gods against the thursar (who descend from the killed monster), who will be killed in the end times battle
  • and, when he appears on earth, a dark wizard, a dark hunter and an ancestor of kings.


The last of these qualities may in some cases refer to a real human person.


Other answer:

Is Odin considered a dark wizard in Norse mythology?
https://www.quora.com/Is-Odin-considered-a-dark-wizard-in-Norse-mythology/answer/Harry-Frank-19


Harry Frank
Professor Emeritus of Psychology
25.XI.2024
That’s movieverse rubbish. He was considered a god. Do you consider Jesus Christ a wizard?

Hans-Georg Lundahl
Jews do. Some of them at least.

Harry Frank
There is no concept of wizardry in Judaism. In Jewish tradition, Joshua of Nazareth is recognized as an eminent teacher of Talmudic law.

Hans-Georg Lundahl
That’s one version, that of Pinchas Lapide.

There is a different one in Toledoth Yeshu.

I have tried to partially exonerate Judaism by considering the Yeshu it describes (at least prior to the execution narratives) could be in fact Odin rather than Jesus.

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