>>19985069Zeus, deus, deiwós, di̯ḗus, *dei, Doublet of dīvus; related to Iūpiter, Jupiter. All relating to shining sky father. So what does this have to do with Odin? The older form of his name is pronounced Wotan or Wodan.
The Latin vates - noun, masculine - means 'seer, prophet'. The cognate in Irish is 'fāith', where the 'v' became an 'f' as it normally does in Gaelic. The Celtic word is highly likely to have been close to the Latin.
Pokorny states: Anglo-Saxon - Wōden - (prop. n. masc) is given as a reflex (a cognate) for 'vates'.
From Etymonline: god. Old English god, 'supreme being, deity', from proto-Germanic *guthan (cf. Du. 'god', German 'Gott', Old Norse 'guð', Goth 'guþ'), from proto-Indo-European *ghut - 'that which is invoked' (cf. Skt. huta - 'invoked', an epithet of Indra), from the root *gheu(e) - 'to call, invoke'. This seems to be a related word.
From the Proto-Indo-European Etymological Dictionary by Fernando López-Menchero:
wātis = poet
wetwos = old
And quite revealingly, from the Indo-European Dictionary Translator:
qdnos = magic. (this author begs to differ with the translator, as this should begin with 'qw' or 'kw', then a vowel, then '-dnos'.)
One has to wonder if Wotan was not a name, but instead a title or job description, 'diviner' and 'magician'. The proposition here is that this is exactly what it was. So how did this become a deity? So if Jesus is King of Kings who honors his father. Wotan is the ALL FATHER
