Re: Odin the Immigrant?

--- In cybalist@..., "William P. Reaves" <beowulf@...> wrote:

> Hej Chris,
>
> >Ummm...can we give up this lunacy about the "Odin migration"? I am

really

> getting tired of hearing about it - the subject is such a waste of

time -

> really no better than discussing how aliens built the pyramids. If

you are

> not intelligent enough to understand that the Odin migration legend

is a

> medieval euhemerization and provably has
> no basis in reality, then you likely do not belong on a list
> dedicated to scientific discussion, which is what Cybalist was

meant to be

> (and not the playground of kooks with their crackpot pet- theories).
>
>
> I am glad to see someone refute this theory so strongly.

Personally, I

> believe that Odin is none other than the *Dyuas Pater of the

Germanic

> tribes.
>
>
> I tend to believe that if the Germanics had a god named *Tiu it was

merely

> Odin himself under an earlier name, rather than the god Tyr who was
> displaced by the migrant Odin.
>
> Wassail, William

Refutation involves reasoning, not insult. I am looking forward to
hearing the arguments I assume you have. But I am puzzled as to
whether mr Wassail thinks Odin migrated or not?

Torsten