Re: Polemon

From: Rick McCallister
Message: 69058
Date: 2012-03-22

Don't Polemon and Odin mean more or less the same thing? Polemon is something like "fighter" and Odin something like "wrath, fury, etc."?


From: Torsten <tgpedersen@...>
To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2012 6:04 AM
Subject: [tied] Polemon

 

This might interest George Knysh:

I came across this
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palemonids
and the reference someone placed there to this guy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polemon_(Cilicia)
which some connect to Nero's amber expedition to the Baltic
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poland_in_Antiquity#Amber_Road

If there was some truth to the story, it would have taken place in the 1st cent. CE. The lands of Polemon II matches those given to 'Odin' by Snorri and Saxo (on both sides of the Black Sea). Neither quote by Josephus given at the end of the Polemen article documents his whereabouts after Nero deposed him.

Torsten