In Norse mythology, the one-eyed god of learning and death He kept two ravens, Memory and Thought (Munin and Hugin) as pets
(Norse mythology) ruler of the Aesir; supreme god of war and poetry and knowledge and wisdom (for which he gave an eye) and husband of Frigg; identified with the Teutonic Wotan
In Norse mythology, the principal Aesir god, ruler of heaven and Earth, and the god of war, wisdom, agriculture and poetry As god of the dead, he presided over banquets of those slain in battle With his brothers Vili and Ve he had killed the primordial frost giant Ymir and used Ymir's body to make all the different realms of the world, as well as the sea and sky The brothers also created the first human beings, Ask and Embla Odin was the supreme chief of the Aesir, a society of warrior gods, and though other gods were younger, more handsome, and even physically stronger, Odin's powers and wisdom were foremost In war, Odin decided the fates of all warriors He was master of magic and discovered the runes He was also called All-Father Also called Othin, Wotan, Woden, Wuotan, Voden, or Votan
In Norse myth, ODIN was the leader of the AESIR in the city of ASGARD See ASGARD
Also OTHINN; WODEN; WOTAN A god of strife and war, magic and death The chief of the Aesir who lives in his hall Valaskjal in Sagard from which he can look out over all the worlds In his hall Valhalla, valkyries (female war spirits) serve heros who have fallen in battle and will aid the god in the great battle of Ragnarok On Odin's shoulders perch two ravens, Hugin ("Thought") and Munin ("Memory") who can fly about all the worlds to bring Odin knowledge Odin often aids great heros but is quite fickle and can turn against a man for any reason or none Tales of Odin's treachery are not merely Christian propaganda Odin's worshippers themselves could be quite sharp-tongued about Odin's unfaithfulness Odin's worship involved human sacrifices, who were generally hung from trees or gallows