Egyptian
Nut
sky, stars
Odin
Also: Óðinn
Norse tradition. See the whole pantheon.
- Domains
- wisdom, poetry, war, death, magic
- Symbols and attributes
- Spear Gungnir, ravens Huginn and Muninn, wolves, the eight-legged horse Sleipnir
- Partner
- Frigg
Key myth
Odin gave an eye at Mímir's well to drink wisdom, and hung himself nine nights on the tree in order to take up the runes. He gathers the slain to Valhalla and is fated to be swallowed by the wolf Fenrir at Ragnarök.
Where sources differ or caution applies. Snorri makes Odin the chief god. Older poems show Thor and Freyr as at least as widely worshipped, and the Icelandic sources reflect their own time and place.
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Elsewhere in the world
Deities in other traditions who share a theme with Odin: wisdom, writing and divination, war and fighting, death and the underworld. This is overlap in one area only.