Re: Germanic Indians

> Aha. But you're barking up the wrong tree. I don't advocate Odin

the

> god being an euhemerisation (?) of a leader named Odin. Rather I
> think there was a leader of a confederation of tribes who already
> worshipped Odin as a god, and that that leader had a name that had
> Odin in it (*Odin-something or *Something-Odin; rather like Tor-

sten,

> get it?)

Then stop talking about the "immigrant Odinn". You still seem
blissfully ignorant of the fact that the Asia-origin theory was a
medieval invention - a mythical Asia - being a Latinized
rationalization of "land of the As(es) [gods]" (ie, a translation of
Asgard) - was confused/confounded with the real life Asia, thus a
bizarre migration myth needed to be invented to explain how the
euhemerized gods came from the east.

> You find the linguistic evidence difficult to accept? Not the right
> forum, I suspect.

What are you talking about? Cybalist is precisely the form for
linguistic discussions.

> Personally I suspect Odin is related to Aton-Adonis
> etc (you may reach for your smelling salt now).

More like he is gasping for air from laughing too hard. That is a
ridiculous statement, hardly worth responding to.

> > Europe from Scandinavia. There is some evidence in Germanic
> histories that
> > the Germanic tribes themselves believed that they originated in
> > Scandinavia.
> If so, Tacitus would have mentioned it.

BS - Tacitus may not have even heard of this notion - even if he did,
he would not necessarily mention it.

- Chris Gwinn