Is it considered that Odin is a 'version' of Mercury? (Or rather, maybe Mercury is a version of Odin) I have read this several places, that Odin/Wotan is an archetype of Mercury which would be then the earlier than this versions- Hermes, Thoth. [Odin's day is Wednesday, ect.] Any opinions on this? I had ideas about this before finding it in readings and was very interested in hearing more on this.
Time and again, I have thought everything ends up going in one way or another to 'Thoth' (and so His equivalents) and so this would make complete sense.
examples-
Matthew of Westminster (Flores ed., 1601, p. 82) transmits a speech by Saxon envoys to Britain ca. 450 A.D.: “Deos patrios, scilicet Saturnum, Jovem atque ceteros, qui mundum gubernant, colimus, maxime autem Mercurium, quem lingua nostra Voden apellamus."—"We worship the gods of our fathers, that is, Jupiter, Saturn, and the rest of those that rule the world, but most of all [we worship] Mercury, whom in our language we call Voden.”
Time and again, I have thought everything ends up going in one way or another to 'Thoth' (and so His equivalents) and so this would make complete sense.
examples-
Matthew of Westminster (Flores ed., 1601, p. 82) transmits a speech by Saxon envoys to Britain ca. 450 A.D.: “Deos patrios, scilicet Saturnum, Jovem atque ceteros, qui mundum gubernant, colimus, maxime autem Mercurium, quem lingua nostra Voden apellamus."—"We worship the gods of our fathers, that is, Jupiter, Saturn, and the rest of those that rule the world, but most of all [we worship] Mercury, whom in our language we call Voden.”
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