By Reginald C. Couzens From The Stories of the Months and Days (1923) Woden, or Odin as the Norsemen called him, was the chief of the gods of our ancestors, and corresponds to the Jupiter of the Romans. Also, for reasons which we shall read later, he was similar to Mercury, and his name was […]
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Woden of the Wild Wood
March 16th, 2018 Awake Goy
In my first piece on Woden I wrote of the connections to water hidden within his name. In this short work I will focus on how again through his name, again “from a word to a word,” he is linked to woods and the wild places, both external and internal. To gain the knowledge of the […]
Woden – God of the Flow
February 8th, 2018 Awake Goy
Wodan/Odin is generally given the meaning “furious one”, hence we have the saying “Woden id est Furor” or sometimes traced etymologically as “prophet or seer”, as I have said I believe every word has many stories, so what else can this word teach us? In a manner befitting the great Woden, when he said “From […]