Re: [tied] Digest Number 640

--- In cybalist@..., "Christopher Gwinn" <sonno3@...> wrote:

>
> > For the record, I don't believe that Odin was an immigrant.

Tacitus

> mentions
> > that Mercury was the principle god of the Germanics tribes. (Odin

is

> > compared to Mercury elsewhere, in the names of the days of the

week

> for
> > example).
>
> Not to mention that the Germanic form behind Odinn - *Watonaz - is
> clearly a divine name "Wild/Frenzied God", containing the -on-os
> suffix common in many IE theonyms (especially in Celtic)

I still think a god of anger sounds strange. It might have been
reshaped from something non-Germanic. I mean, the Romans didn't have
a god named Ira, did they? ;-)

Torsten