“Odin isn’t a peace-loving god, as portrayed in mass culture; Vikings used to pu

–“Odin isn’t a peace-loving god, as portrayed in mass culture; Vikings used to put children on a spear in his honour. Because for him, he didn’t need a special sanctuary; wherever you plant the spear in the ground, that’s where one can worship.
He’s a monster, Like you said one of his nicknames being “Ygg,” which means Terrible One. Odin’s name actually is a nickname as well. In the future, it took the place of a legitimate name, but it’s essentially a nickname.
Among hundreds of others, his nicknames include terrible, scoundrel, and madness one. He was called by these names not by his enemies but also by those who worshipped him.
In Proto-Germanic, his name was “Wōðanaz,” which means Lord of frenzy from the word “Wōð,” meaning rage or frenzy.
Initially, Odin wasn’t the Supreme God; The supreme was god known to us now as the thunder god Thor, who also inherits his cultural heritage from Zeus.
He’s present in almost all cultures as the god of the sky.
Everything began to change with the Great Migration. Initially, Odin was encountered as a god in individual military brotherhoods, separate from others, the patron of martial madness.
Of course, this wasn’t universal; he appeared differently in various places.
Now, imagine the times when a narrowly specialized usurping god becomes the supreme God. Look at Viking burials, observe the symbols on these mounds—the symbol of Thor (his hammer) predominates, not Odin’s, which is three triangles, or they are very rarely clear.
There’s also the question of Odin’s supremacy in Scandinavia—whether he was the Supreme God for all tribes or only for the Warrior Elite.’–