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Posted 2006-12-06, 09:51 AM in reply to Lenny's post starting "Venice? ----- Wodan?"
Wodan was an ancient Germanic sky god. Wodan was known as Woden or Wotan to the Saxons and later Odin to the Norse. Wodan was also the god of war.

Wodan became an increasingly popular Germanic god, who replaced Tiwaz (Tyr), as the chief sky god and war god. Odin inherited many of Wodan's roles and attributes, as well as those of Tiwaz.

Wodan was particularly popular among the noble class, but was less popular among the working class and peasants. The rural people tend to be more interested in Donar or Thunor (Thor), the god of thunder.

Wodan (Odin) was the husband of the goddess Frija or Frea (Frigg). In the Lombardic myths, he was called Godan and was the husband of Frea.

Wodan was not only the god of war; he was the god of victory in battle. Victory was achieved in battle, when he pointed his spear in favour of one army over the other.

Wodan was death and blood sacrifice. The Cimbri, the Heruli and the Goths carrying out sacrificial rite, by stabbing and burning their victims. This would account for later Norse myths, when Odin stabbed with his spear and burned the Vanir goddess Gullveig three times, but each time, the goddess would be reborn. This attack upon the goddess, resulted in a war between the Aesir and the Vanir.

Like Odin, Wodan was the god of hanging. The Cimbri sometimes hanged their captives over the bronze cauldrons, while the priestess cut their throats. These sacrifices to Wodan would then later be thrown into sacred lakes. However, the Norse myths say that it was Odin who hanged himself, in order to learn the magic power of poetry and the magic of the runes.

The Roman identified Woden with the Roman god Mercury. The Germanic people honoured his name by naming Wednesday after him. Wednesday was also dies Mercurii (Mercury's Day).

Woden along with six other deities was mentioned in the Second Merseburg Charm, c. 900.
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Posted 2006-12-06, 10:28 AM in reply to !King_Amazon!'s post starting "Wodan was an ancient Germanic sky god...."
That sounds like something off of Wiki...but I'm just overwhelmingly happy to see information about Wodan.
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Posted 2006-12-06, 10:46 AM in reply to KagomJack's post starting "That sounds like something off of..."
It's actually off of a random website I found on google when I searched "wodan".
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Posted 2006-12-06, 11:11 AM in reply to !King_Amazon!'s post starting "It's actually off of a random website I..."
And here I was hoping you were a Nordic Mythology afficionado.
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Posted 2006-12-06, 11:43 AM in reply to KagomJack's post starting "And here I was hoping you were a Nordic..."
And here I was hoping you were a Furry Yiffing afficianado.
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Posted 2006-12-06, 12:48 PM in reply to !King_Amazon!'s post starting "And here I was hoping you were a Furry..."
Zing!
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Just ask the married chick he fucked.

Who Delivers ten times out of ten?
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Posted 2006-12-06, 09:36 PM in reply to MightyJoe's post starting "Zing!"
Lol Norse myth is my area man. In fact I can give you his nicknames they are: The Earth Serpent, The Old One, The Black Rider, The Sword of Magus, The Razor Edge, Wielder of Gungnir, Creator of Fafnir, The Almighty, etc.

There are many, many, MANY, other nicknames he went by.
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A Big Monkey. So?
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