10. Odin

Odin (Wōđanaz) is the supreme god in German-Scandinavian mythology, the father and leader of the aces, the sage, the shaman, the connoisseur of runes and sagas, the priest, the sorcerer, the warrior, the god of war and victory, the patron of the military aristocracy, the master of Valhalla and the lord of the Valkyries.

Odin is John the Baptist. Variations of the name Wodan (Odin): Old English Wōden, Old Saxon Wōdan, Old Dutch Wuodan. This name is close to the Slavic word "Voda" (water). John the Baptist is known for performing the rite of immersion in water.

Odin is the son of Bor. The name Bor is a variation of the Aramaic word "bar", which means "son." This means that Odin's original name was "Bar Zechariah" (son of Zechariah). Over time, this name was simplified to "Bor".

Bestla is a giantess from the family of frost giants, the mother of Odin. Bestla is the name of Elizabeth, the mother of John the Baptist, changed over time.

Bestla = Elizabeth

Odin's companions are the crows Hugin and Munin ("thinking" and "remembering"). Here the stories of John the Baptist and the prophet Elijah intertwined. John the Baptist was the incarnation of the prophet Elijah who was fed by ravens.

According to the Younger Edda, Odin obtained the sacred drink - the honey of poetry, the source of life renewal. Odin drank the honey and flew to Asgard in the form of an eagle and brought the honey of poetry to the Ases. On the way, he spilled some of the honey from his beak and the people who drank it became poetic skalds. Odin swallowed part of the honey, and what spilled out on the other side went to mediocre poets. The honey of poetry is the honey that John the Baptist ate. This means that John the Baptist was a poet and spoke in verse.

Odin is a master of disguise, often appears to people in various forms, for example, in the form of an old man in a blue cloak and a felt hat, who is armed with a spear, and he is accompanied by two ravens or two wolves. He wanders the world under the guise of a poor wanderer or an ugly dwarf, and it will be bad for someone who, having forgotten the laws of hospitality, pushes him away from his doorstep. He circles the earth on his horse and, invisible to people, takes part in their battles, helping the most worthy to win.

Odin has over 170 names and many epithets. They describe the attributes of the god in different ways, refer to myths or to religious rites associated with Odin. Some of the names of Odin mentioned in Scandinavian medieval literature:

Alföðr (Alfedr - "all-father"),

Ygg (Ygg - "terrible"),

Hár (Har - "high"),

Veratýr (Veratur - "ruler of people"),

Bölverkr (Bolverk - "villain").

This means that contemporaries considered Ivan the Baptist to be an authoritative person who was tall. People were afraid of him because of his fearlessness to expose human sins.The chronicler Adam of Bremen (XI century) in the comments to his book Gesta Hammaburgensis Ecclesiae Pontificum writes that the statue of the "powerful" Thor, sits on a throne in the temple in Uppsala, surrounded by Odin and Freyr. The chronicler calls Odin "fierce" (Wodan, id est furor) and says that he "controls the war and gives people strength against the enemy" and that the people in the temple depict him in armor similar to "the way our people depict Mars".

Probably, the hypostasis of Odin-John the Baptist is Santa Claus. This is indicated by many parallels in Germanic folklore.

The ancient Germans had a seven-day week. Odin's Day is Wednesday.

Thor (Jesus Christ) is considered the son of Odin from Yord (Fjorgyn). John the Baptist performed the rite of baptism for Jesus Christ, i.e. the ancient Germans considered Jesus Christ as a follower of John the Baptist.

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Grimnir's speeches

"Speech of Grimnir" – one of the ancient poems of the Elder Edda. The narration is conducted on behalf of Grimnir-Odin, which means that the “Speeches of Grimnir” are the sermons of John the Baptist.

The first part, written in prose, tells how Geirröd came to power by pushing his brother Agnar back into the sea. Geirrod is Herod Antipas, Agnar is Herod Archelaus. Geirrod is a variation of the name Herod, Agnar is a variation of the name Archelaus. In 6 AD Augustus sent Archelaus into exile in Vienna, a city in Gaul Narbonne near Lyon, and confiscated his property. In other words, Herod Archelaus sailed across the sea to Gaul, and the myth says about this, "by pushing his brother Agnar back into the sea".

Geirrod ordered the capture and torture of the wanderer Grimnir-Odin.

In the second, poetic part, Odin, i.e. John the Baptist, tells about the nine worlds, about the occupation and place of each of the deities and other mythical creatures. This song is about the structure of the universe. Odin lists his names, deprives Geirrod of his support and foreshadows his imminent end.

The last part is also written in prose and tells about the death of Geirrod, the ascension of his son to the throne and the disappearance of Odin. In fact, Herod Agrippa I was not a son, but a nephew for Geirrod-Herod Antipas.

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Geirrod

Geirrod – in the German-Scandinavian mythology, the king and giant-jotun, the father of Gjálp and Greip. Geirrod is the biblical king Herod, the name Geirrod is a variation of the name Herod.

Geirrod = Herod

From German mythology, you can learn that Herod was greedy: Odin and Frigga argued about the greed of Geirrod.

Geirrod the giant was the opponent of Thor, Jesus Christ.

Gjálp and Greip are Salome and Herodias, her mother, who were involved in the death of John the Baptist. Herodias was married to her uncle Herod Philip I and had a daughter Salome from him, but "was carried away by a criminal relationship" with Herod Antipas. John the Baptist, aka Odin, denounced Herod for this sin. In the "Speech of Grimnir" it is said that Geirrod (Herod), captured Odin (John the Baptist) when he traveled under the name of Grimnir, and subjected him to torture between two fires. According to the Bible, King Herod ordered John the Baptist to be beheaded.

Geirrod hated Thor. He demanded from Loki to lead Thor into a trap in Geirrod's castle. “A laudatory song of Thor”, the poem “Drapa Thor” (Þórsdrápa) tells that later Thor, having crossed the Vimur River, killed Geirrod, and also pursued Geirrod’s daughters, Gjalp and Greip.

Herod hated Jesus Christ, he did part of the judgment on Jesus. Luke writes that this led to an improvement in the previously hostile relationship between Pilate and Herod and gave Pilate the opportunity to declare: “… and Herod also, for I sent him to him; and nothing was found in Him worthy of death…”

Vimur is the greatest of the rivers, the main river of Elivagar, twelve streams that originate in the Hvergelmir spring. No rivers are colder than Elivagar. Hvergelmir - a stream in Niflheim "the land of darkness", from which underground rivers flow, including Gjoll, which flows next to Hel, the realm of the dead. Tor's crossing of Vimur is the resurrection of Jesus Christ, His return from the realm of the dead. After the resurrection from the dead, Jesus, as God, commands the circumstances and leads to the sad result of the life of Herod and Herodias with her daughter Salome.

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Gjálp and Greip

Gjálp and Greip – in Scandinavian mythology, the giantess, the daughter of Geirrod. Gjálp is Salome, and Greip is Herodias, her mother. In fact, Herodias was the niece, not the daughter of Herod.

Gjálp is a variation of the name Salome. In older times this name was Glpjá

Glpjá

G l p já

S l b já

S l m já

Salomea

[m] – [b]: [b] – [p] interchangeable)

Greip is a variation of the name Herodias. The name Herodias / Herod means grapes.

Greip = grapes

The name Herod is similar to the word Vinograd (grapes) in the Slavic languages.

Vinograd = Vino + grad

Vino = wine

Grad = Herod (grapes)

Gjálp and Greip are mentioned in the Younger Edda in part 18 of the "Language of Poetry", which tells how the thunder god Thor went to the giant Geirrod. This is a retelling of the story of the relationship between Jesus Christ and Herod. When Thor was fording the Vimur river, there was a rise in water, which was caused by the bodily fluids (urine or menstrual blood) of the Gjálp. This means that Mary Magdalene and her followers associated the execution of Jesus Christ with the machinations of Salome (Herodias).

Josephus Flavius, Saxo Grammatik and church traditions tell about the tragic end of the life of Herod, Herodias and Salome.

Josephus reports that Herod Antipas was accused of conspiring against Rome and exiled by Caligula to the Lugdunum Convenarum in Gaul (modern Saint-Bertrand-de-Commenges). Herodias was asked to remain under the protection of her brother Agrippa, but she chose to go into exile with her husband, where he soon died in captivity in complete obscurity and poverty.

Saxo Grammatik, who died before the creation of the Younger Edda and relied on other sources when writing the Acts of the Danes, tells the legend of Thor's victory over the arrogant giant Gerud (lat. Geruthus). Gerud corresponds to Geirrod, this is another version of the name Herod. He writes that the bodies of Herodias, Salome (and a third) were covered in blisters:

“In addition, there were three women at the table next to him, their bodies covered with blisters, and their backs seemed to be deprived of any support.”

These dead women did not escape the wrath of Thor and

"were struck by the blows of his lightning, atoning with their broken bodies for the attempt on his divine greatness."

According to church tradition, Herod and Herodias were brought the head of Salome, just as the head of Ivan the Baptist was once brought to them. In winter, Salome went to the river, where she fell through the ice, and a large sharp ice floe cut off her head.

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Njord

Njord (ancient Scandinavian Njörðr) is the father of Freyr and Freya, a god from the Vanir in Scandinavian mythology. As Freyr's father, Njord is John the Baptist, the forerunner of Jesus Christ.

The name Njord comes from the word "dive". The rite of baptism is diving under water. The word "dive" in different languages is close to the name Njord:

Nyrat-Russian

Nurne - Macedonian

Nirt - Latvian

Nardyti - Lithuanian

Sukeltaa-Finnish

Sukelduma - Estonian

Merülés - Hungarian

The concept of “drown” is close to “dive”. The word "drown" in different languages is close to the name Njord:

Noyer - French

Megfullad - Hungarian

Annegare - Italian

The word "drown" in different languages is close to the name Njord, if you read it in the opposite direction:

Drown – English – nword

Drukne – Danish – enkurd

Drukkna – Icelandic – ankkurd

Drukne – Norwegian – enkurd

Drunkna – Swedish – anknurd

Njord represents the wind and the sea element, which also points to him as John the Baptist, who is identified with the water element.

After the war of the Aesir and the Vanir, he becomes a hostage of the Aesir. Here the event is symbolically displayed when Herod threw Ivan the Baptist into prison.

Njord is rich, has power over the sea, wind and fire, patronizes navigation, fishing and hunting for marine animals.

Njord is mentioned in the Ynglinga saga. When Odin arrived in Scandinavia, he settled his priest Njord in Noatun. This means that the sanctuary of Njord-John the Baptist was created here. After the death of Odin, Njord became the ruler of the Swedes. He died of illness and before his death ordered to devote himself to Odin. Njord and Odin are two hypostases of John the Baptist. The power of Njord passed to the son of Freyr, Jesus Christ. Thus, Njord, John the Baptist, became the ancestor of the Ynglings.

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