▲ | vintermann 9 hours ago | |||||||
> He's in charge of the whole thing! But he may not always have been. In most European mythologies, the thunder god is the most "in charge". In Norse mythology, the thunder god is the son of the chief god instead. My assumption is that Thor was the main god until they syncretistically tried to incorporate new beliefs about "the father and the son" and self-sacrifice on a tree, which even by this super-early mention of Odin, was over 500 years old. | ||||||||
▲ | thaumasiotes an hour ago | parent [-] | |||||||
> In most European mythologies, the thunder god is the most "in charge". Most? It's true of the Greeks. It's true of the Romans after their mythology is unified with the Greeks, and there's a good chance it was also true before. But that's it, as far as I see. It's not true of Celtic mythology and Slavic mythology is barely known. | ||||||||
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