So why wasn't Thor head of the pantheon? Most storm/thunder gods tend to be so or become so over time.>zeus>yawheh>indra>perun>baal
>>18512974read Art of The Deal.
>>18512974Thor is globular amphora god
>>18512974Because Germanic societies prioritized wisdom, strategic warfare, magic, and royal lineage over raw physical power.Odin was the king: He represented the ruling class, nobility, and the complex strategy of war. Meanwhile Thor was the champion: He represented the physical strength required to enforce that rule and protect the realm. Norse culture separated the ultimate political authority (Odin) from raw military execution (Thor).
>>18512974The Norse didn't have a strict 'head of the Pantheon'. Odin and Thor jockeyed for position based on the local culture and what was emphasized more and in different geographical areas, they had different levels of influence.Along with more obscure characters like Ullr. The Eddas preserve a mythology where Odin is the leader, Adam of Bremen describes a Norse shrine where Thor was the leader. As one example.
>>185129741)Paganism and especially unorganized paganism didnt had rigid roles for their Gods. We know that while Odin was the most popular "main God" of late Norse pantheon, there were areas and tribes were Thor was the chief God, and sometimes not even the son of Odin. Its not different from the late Roman Paganism eventually putting some kind of Solar God above even Jupiter in some specific cults2)Probably in more ancient times Thor was Indeed the main chief God. But somewhere around the early Iron Age the cult of the wisdow-magic archetype God (The "Mercury" archetype) spread from the continental celts and eventually found its way to Scandinavia
>>18512974>>18513029>>18513032Thor & Loki is the scriptural canon that germanics adopted as reading-lessons along with the standardization of Futhork which was funded by Arianists of the southern med and their connections to bosphoros.Troy-larping was all the blaze for a long long time, because many of the important migrations into europe came from that region in several waves.Fosite/Nerthuz/Poseidon is the real godhead of the Aesir-Osirian Bell Beakers. (Osiris originates from the maghreb bell beakers)
>>18513033There's something to this. Germany has been the birthplace of all kinds of autism - Luther, Hegel, Marx... There is something about the German mind that prioritizes theoretical consistency over pragmatic context and Odin never being overthrown might very well be a result of that. Thanks for the food for though.
>>18513029>read about how a guy went and called the press to report on him pouring concrete for an ice rink while he's wearing a suitWow!
>>18512974Tyr's close cognate is JupiTer too. Survive the Jive has done some vids on this. IIRC Odin was syncretized with a local Balto-slavic god that had a shamanic cult.The nords thought he was cooler I guess.
>>18512974Other than the thunderbolt, Odin is a lot more similar to a Jupiter or Zeus than Thor is. Pretty much everyone associated the highest authority with wisdom more than with strength. A supreme divine ruler does still need to wield power, and the thunderbolt is one of the more obvious symbols of that kind of power. But Odin's association with magic works too, just as solar deities also often ended up becoming heads of pantheons. That then frees up the thunder god to take on an aspect more wholly concerned with strength and martial prowess, further distancing him from kingship.I do wonder if environment plays a part. Perhaps Odin was originally worshiped as the king of the gods in a place where thunderstorms were not as frequent or menacing. So shamanic trances became the most common and obvious manifestation of divine power instead.
>>18513532Odin as the scribelord of the Aesir and bloodbrother counterpart to Loki is identical to Thoth as the scribelord of the Osirians and bloodbrother counterpart to the Luwians.Zeus & Hades is the eurasian/black sea yamnaya counterpart to Odin & Loki or Thoth & prince of the Luwians (thor&loki is portrayed as a typical mediterranean nephew raised by his uncle,- like in the aegean master-student system going down to alexander.)The bell beakers, osirians and anatolians formed a coastal traderoute-alliance counterpart to the more river-based and continental Yamnaya traderoutes.Troy was in the center of this clusterfuck of retarded syncretisms.
>>18513524>Survive the JiveNo, Thanks
>>18513116>The Norse didn't have a strict 'head of the Pantheon'.lol wutOdin is the ALLFATHER, it doesn't get more head of the pantheon than thathe is the grand patriarch of all the Aesir, and their supreme military commander as the God of Warthere's no fucking interpretation of Norse mythology that has him subordinate to anyone
>>18513874Remember, remember, the Eddas are not the wholistic face of Norse ethnography. >Now we shall say a few words about the superstitions of the Swedes: That folk has a very famous temple called Uppsala, situated not far from the city of Sigtuna and Björkö. In this temple, entirely decked out in gold, the people worship the statues of three gods in such wise that the mightiest of them, Thor, occupies a throne in the middle of the chamber; Wotan and Frikko have places on either side. The significance of these gods is as follows: Thor, they say, presides over the air, which governs the thunder and lightning, the winds and rains, fair weather and crops. The other, Wotan—that is, the Furious—carries on war and imparts to man strength against his enemies. The third is Frikko, who bestows peace and pleasure on mortals. His likeness, too, they fashion with an immense phallus. But Wotan they chisel armed, as our people are wont to represent Mars. Thor with his scepter apparently resembles Jove. The people also worship heroes made gods, whom they endow with immortality because of their remarkable exploits, as one reads in the Vita of Saint Ansgar they did in the case of King Eric. For all their gods there are appointed priests to offer sacrifices for the people. If plague and famine threaten, a libation is poured to the idol Thor; if war, to Wotan; if marriagesare to be celebrated, to Frikko.https://archive.org/details/historyofarchbis00adam_0/page/207/mode/1upFreyr/Frikko appears to have been very popular in Sweden, but in Icelandic myth is considered fairly minor. Tyr appears constantly in place names in Denmark, but is almost absent elsewhere. In the Icelandic Eddas, Odin is called the Allfather and is clearly the ruler of the cosmos. In Sweden, he was pushed to the side and Thor became the primary deity. Norse myth was not standardized at all.
>>18512974He's not a god for peace times. Just like Yahweh.
>>18514025Ps: or my lord Shiva aka Odin
