>>20799883Odin comes from Wodanaz, who comes from the PIE Root "-odr" which means "to howl (furiously), whose name comes from this root is Rudra (a God of Howling Storms, Hunting, and having a "THIRD eye"). Rudra is treated as a lesser emanation of Shiva in the Rig Veda, because Rudra is an Aryan version of Shiva and is associated with hunting animals unlike the friend of animals Pashupati (Shiva's oldest form, that is EXPLICITLY known as a deity of vegan dalits and forest animal herder tribes). The TRIMURTI is a concept in Hinduism in which the cosmic functions of creation, maintenance, and destruction are personified by the forms of Brahma the creator, Vishnu the maintainer or preserver and Shiva the destroyer or transformer. These three deities have been called "the Hindu triad" or the "Great Triple deity", Shiva being the THIRD god as Odin/Hermes/Mercury is the Trito/Trismegistus/etc..., you guys already understand.
