Odin is perhaps the most famous person in Norse mythology. Only there is a problem. Odin was a flesh and blood person, not a myth or a god.
According to Thor Heyerdahl, Odin was an actual person living in the 1st century AD. (93) At first, when tracing out the Ramsey family genealogy and I ran into Odin (a variation of adon, as in Adonai, a reference to the God of the Bible; alt. Othin, a form of Othniel), I didn't believe that he was real. I thought, as most people would, that my genealogy was made up, being descended from a mythological god. However, at the LORD's urging, I kept proceeding in tracing my genealogy back and found that Odin's genealogy as given in Prose Edda goes back to a certain King Memnon of Ethiopia, who in turn carried his lineage back to a certain Zeus, chief of the Greek gods.
Zeus had a son with a woman, a nymph (in mythological aspect) named Electra; Zeus and Electra had a son named Dardanus. This Dardanus, I realized, was the same person as Dara, also called Darda, mentioned in the Bible as a son of Zarah(3), who was the son of Judah, the son of Israel. Now since Israel(95) was a flesh and blood person, and Judah, Zarah, and Dara/Dardanus were flesh and blood persons, this of necessity must mean that Odin himself was a flesh and blood person.
At this point, something needs to be said. It is very difficult sorting out the genealogy of mythology, as is understood the term mythology. Sometimes, you get a person being the ancestor or descendant of one person, yet if you check the parentage of any siblings, you find that the person you were originally investigating was not in the family. Sometimes, also, you get real life persons who have the mythological identities of multiple people.
Such is the case concerning Zeus. In this instance, the name Zeus is applied both to Zarah, the father of Dara/Dardanus and his father Judah, as noted in reference point 93. It can be difficult to such an extent that one has to take each mention of deity and child (although mostly with the deities) as a separate person and event.
Of course there are convergence points. For instance, in almost all 'mythologies,' the creation of the universe and the human race begins after a flood. Although details vary, they almost always center around the world being destroyed for wickedness, a man and a woman are warned of said flood, and warned by a deity regarding how to escape being killed by the flood, just as the King James Version Bible relates it.(96)
According to Thor Heyerdahl, Odin was an actual person living in the 1st century AD. (93) At first, when tracing out the Ramsey family genealogy and I ran into Odin (a variation of adon, as in Adonai, a reference to the God of the Bible; alt. Othin, a form of Othniel), I didn't believe that he was real. I thought, as most people would, that my genealogy was made up, being descended from a mythological god. However, at the LORD's urging, I kept proceeding in tracing my genealogy back and found that Odin's genealogy as given in Prose Edda goes back to a certain King Memnon of Ethiopia, who in turn carried his lineage back to a certain Zeus, chief of the Greek gods.
Zeus had a son with a woman, a nymph (in mythological aspect) named Electra; Zeus and Electra had a son named Dardanus. This Dardanus, I realized, was the same person as Dara, also called Darda, mentioned in the Bible as a son of Zarah(3), who was the son of Judah, the son of Israel. Now since Israel(95) was a flesh and blood person, and Judah, Zarah, and Dara/Dardanus were flesh and blood persons, this of necessity must mean that Odin himself was a flesh and blood person.
At this point, something needs to be said. It is very difficult sorting out the genealogy of mythology, as is understood the term mythology. Sometimes, you get a person being the ancestor or descendant of one person, yet if you check the parentage of any siblings, you find that the person you were originally investigating was not in the family. Sometimes, also, you get real life persons who have the mythological identities of multiple people.
Such is the case concerning Zeus. In this instance, the name Zeus is applied both to Zarah, the father of Dara/Dardanus and his father Judah, as noted in reference point 93. It can be difficult to such an extent that one has to take each mention of deity and child (although mostly with the deities) as a separate person and event.
Of course there are convergence points. For instance, in almost all 'mythologies,' the creation of the universe and the human race begins after a flood. Although details vary, they almost always center around the world being destroyed for wickedness, a man and a woman are warned of said flood, and warned by a deity regarding how to escape being killed by the flood, just as the King James Version Bible relates it.(96)
All scriptures listed are taken from the King James Version 1611 edition of the Holy Bible
(3) Genesis 38
(93) http://hope-of-israel.org/familyofodin.html
(95) http://av1611.com/kjbp/kjv-bible-text/Lu-3.html
(96) http://av1611.com/kjbp/kjv-bible-text/Ge-6.html
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