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Odin
majorattested100 CE
The Allfather of Norse myth, god of wisdom, war, poetry, and death. Odin sacrificed an eye for knowledge and hung nine nights on Yggdrasil to win the runes.
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Signature powerThe Hanged EyeTraded an eye and hung nine nights on the world-tree to seize the runes.
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The mythic order Odin belongs to, who comes before and after in the story of this world.
The same idol, across the ages
Scholars have long read Odin as one face of a wider figure that recurs under many names through history: the the sky-father.
Read why these are held to be one →Voices & connections
Figures bound to Odin, family and rivals within the myth, and the thinkers and writers who shaped how we know them.