(13-02-2024, 01:05 AM)bluerose Wrote: odin archetype ☿  , read this:

https://medium.com/@stephsarrubba/the-secret-lgbti-history-of-vikings-valkyries-and-norse-gods-102f7f1c9c2e
Odin practices women’s magic
The Allfather Odin practiced seiðr, a form of magic traditionally associated with women that he learned from goddess Freya.

In the Lokasenna, a poem in the Poetic Edda where Loki insults all other gods, he mocks Odin for practicing this kind of magic.

Accusing a man of seiðr was one of the greatest offenses. Women’s magic or witchcraft, in fact, implied that the practitioner played the woman’s part in the sexual act.

wednesday is named after odin, in fact, the planet mercury is associated with such deities, as in hermaphroditic ones.

The name is a calque of the Latin dies Mercurii 'day of Mercury', reflecting the fact that the Germanic god Woden (Wodanaz or Odin) during the Roman era was interpreted as "Germanic Mercury".

Ironically, the one-eyed god.