Wotan (Pendant in Gold)

Wotan - pendant in gold

Germanic god father, father of Donar, 32 x 45 mm, 24 carat gold plated, design on both sides

Odin or Southern Germanic Wodan, Old Icelandic Óðinn, Old English Woden, Old Saxon Uuoden, Old High German Wuotan, Germanic * Wôðanaz, is the main god in Norse mythology and religion, as it is presented in the eddischen seals. The name Wodan, according to some linguistic directions, derives from a race of words that "inflame, foment," in the figurative sense, "inspire," a Western extension to Indo-European * wat, akin to Old-Indian vátati. The Middle High German and Old High German wuot Neuhochdeutsch anger also comes from this Indo-European word sex, according to Old Norse ódr, with the meaning of "voice, song, passion, poetry", related to Gemeingermanisch * woda "obsessed, excited". These meanings are characteristic representations of the essence and action maxims of Odin / Wodan. The inspired, emotional arousal can refer to poetic poetry as well as to the magic and its potentialities in war, magically blinding the adversaries, or to the irascible berserker rage. Wednesday in other Germanic languages ??refers to Wodan after the interpretation and / or reference of the Roman model. The "Wodanstag" or "Wodenstag", "Woensdag" in Dutch, was comparable in New English to Wednesday, in Danish and Swedish "onsdag", Odinstag. The borrowing depends on the assumption of the Roman 7-day week by the continental Germans of the 2.-3. Century together. The "Wednesday" comes from a loan translation of the Latin Mercurii, Day of Mercury, which was considered to be the equivalent of Wodan (see Interpretatio Romana).