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• Wodanaz
  Wodanaz
  
  or is the reconstructed Proto-Germanic language name of a god of Germanic paganism, known as in Norse mythology, in Old English language, or in Old High German and in Lombardic language....
  , "lord of poetic/mantic inspiration", "Germanic Mercury
  Mercury (mythology)
  
  In Roman mythology, Mercury was a messenger, and a god of trade, profit and commerce, the son of Maia Maiestas, also known as Ops, the Roman version of Cronus, and Jupiter ....
  ", Norse Óðinn
  Odin
  
  Odin , is considered the chief ?sir in Norse paganism. Homologous with the Anglo-Saxons Woden and the Old High German Wotan, it is descended from Proto-Germanic *Wodanaz or *Wodanaz....
   (Odin), Old English Woden
  Woden
  
  Woden is a god in Anglo-Saxon paganism, together with Norse Odin representing a development of a Proto-Germanic god, *Wodanaz. Other West Germanic forms of the name include Old High German Wuotan, Low German and Dutch language Wodan....
  , Old High German Wuotan.
• Þunraz
  Thor
  
  Thor is the red-haired and bearded god of thunder in Germanic mythology and Germanic paganism, and its subsets: Norse paganism, Anglo-Saxon paganism and Continental Germanic mythology....
  , "thunder", "Germanic Hercules
  Hercules
  
  Hercules is the Ancient Rome name for the mythical Ancient Greece hero Heracles, son of Zeus and the mortal Alcmene. Early Roman sources suggest that the imported Greek hero supplanted a mythic Italian shepherd called "Recaranus" or "Garanus", famous for his strength....
   or Jupiter
  Jupiter (mythology)
  
  In Roman mythology, Jupiter or Jove was the king of the gods,and the god of sky and thunder. He is the equivalent of Zeus in the Greek pantheon....
  ", Norse Þórr
  Thor
  
  Thor is the red-haired and bearded god of thunder in Germanic mythology and Germanic paganism, and its subsets: Norse paganism, Anglo-Saxon paganism and Continental Germanic mythology....
  (Thor), West Germanic Donar, Old English Thunor.
• Teiwaz, god of war, "Germanic Mars", Norse Tyr
  Tyr
  
  File:T?r by Fr?lich.jpgT?r is the god of single combat, victory and heroic glory in Norse mythology, portrayed as a one-handed man. In the late Icelandic Eddas, he is portrayed, alternately, as the son of Odin or of Hymir , while the origins of his name and his possible relationship to Tuisto suggest he was once considered the father of...
  , Old English Tiw, Old High German Ziu, continues Indo-European Dyeus
  Dyeus
  
  *Dyeus is the reconstructed chief deity of the Proto-Indo-Europeans pantheon . He was the god of the daylight sky, and his position may have mirrored the position of the patriarch or monarch in Proto-Indo-European society....
  .
• Nerþuz
  Nerthus
  
  Nerthus is a goddess in Germanic paganism associated with fertility goddess. Nerthus is attested by Tacitus, a 1st Century AD Roman historian, in his work entitled Germania ....
  , described by Tacitus
  Tacitus
  
  Publius Cornelius Tacitus was a Roman Senate and a historian of the Roman Empire. The surviving portions of his two major works—the Annals and the Histories —examine the reigns of the Roman Emperors Tiberius, Claudius, Nero and those that reigned in the Year of the Four Emperors....
   as Mother Earth, continued in Norse Njord
  Njord
  
  Nj?r?r is a Vanir god in Norse mythology. In surviving sources, Nj?r?r is the father of the major deities Freyr and Freyja by his unnamed Van sister, was in an ill-fated marriage with the goddess Ska?i, lives in N?at?n and is associated with sea, seafaring, wind, fishing, wealth, and crop fertility....
  .
• Frijo
  Frigg
  
  Frigg is a major goddess in Norse paganism, a subset of Germanic paganism. She is said to be the wife of Odin, and is the "foremost among the goddesses"....
  , wife of Wodanaz, Norse Frigg
  Frigg
  
  Frigg is a major goddess in Norse paganism, a subset of Germanic paganism. She is said to be the wife of Odin, and is the "foremost among the goddesses"....
  . "wife", c.f. Sanskrit "mistress, wife"
• Fria, daughter of Njord. Norse Freya
  Freya
  
  Freyja is a major goddess in Norse paganism, a subset of Germanic paganism. Because the documented source of this religious tradition, the Norse mythology, was transmitted and altered by Christian medieval historians, the actual role, heathen practices and worship of the goddess are uncertain....
  , Old High German
  Old High German
  
  The term Old High German refers to the earliest stage of the German language and it conventionally covers the period from around 500 to 1050. Coherent written texts do not appear until the second half of the 8th century, and some treat the period before 750 as 'prehistoric' and date the start of Old High German proper to 750 for this reason...
   Frouwa, Old English Freo
  Freo
  
  Freo may refer to:* Freyja, the Norse goddess* Fremantle, Western Australia, a port town in Western Australia* Fremantle Football Club, a team in the Australian Football League commonly referred to as the "Freo Dockers"...
  . "lady", c.f. Gothic Fráujo "lady, mistress", German "Frau", Swedish "Fru"
• Fullo
  Fulla
  
  Fulla or Fylla is, in Norse mythology, an ?synja. Her name is related to the adjective fullir, meaning "fullish." By Snorri Sturluson in Gylfaginning, she is described as follows:...
   goddess, or *Fullaz, god of riches, plenty. Corresponds to Norse Fulla
  Fulla
  
  Fulla or Fylla is, in Norse mythology, an ?synja. Her name is related to the adjective fullir, meaning "fullish." By Snorri Sturluson in Gylfaginning, she is described as follows:...
  .
• Ermunaz, Saxon god (speculative, based on Nennius
  Nennius
  
  Nennius, or Nemnivus, is either of two shadowy personages traditionally associated with the history of Wales. The better known of the two is Nennius, the student of Elvodugus....
  ' Armenon). The word means "strong" or "exalted" (Old High German ermen, Old Norse jormun, Old English Eormen)
• Wulþuz
  Ullr
  
  In Germanic paganism, Ullr appears to have been a major god in prehistoric times, or even an epitheton of the head of the Proto-Germanic pantheon....
  , "glorious one", possibly originally an epitheton, mentioned on the Thorsberg chape
  Thorsberg chape
  
  The Rundata 7 or Thorsberg chape , that was found in the Thorsberg moor, Germany, bears an Elder Futhark inscription, one of the earliest known altogether, dating to roughly 200 CE....
  , continued in Norse Ullr
  Ullr
  
  In Germanic paganism, Ullr appears to have been a major god in prehistoric times, or even an epitheton of the head of the Proto-Germanic pantheon....
  
• Wurdiz
  Wyrd
  
  Wyrd is a concept in Anglo-Saxons and Nordic countries culture roughly corresponding to destiny or karma. The word is ancestral to Modern English :wiktionary:weird, which has acquired a very different signification....
  , "destiny", Norse Urd
  Urd
  
  Urd can refer to any of the following:* Ur?r, one of a group of three Norns in Norse mythology* Urd , character in the manga and anime series Oh My Goddess!...
  , Old English Wyrd
  Wyrd
  
  Wyrd is a concept in Anglo-Saxons and Nordic countries culture roughly corresponding to destiny or karma. The word is ancestral to Modern English :wiktionary:weird, which has acquired a very different signification....
  .
• Sowilo
  Sowilo
  
  S?l or Sunna is the solar deity in Germanic mythology. One of the two Old High German Merseburg Incantations, written in the 9th or 10th century CE, attests that Sunna is the sister of Sinthgunt....
  , the Sun.

• Medjanagardaz
  Midgard
  
  Midgard , is an old Germanic languages name for our world, the places inhabited by mannaz, with the literal meaning "middle enclosure"....
   inhabited world
• erþo anþi uppahemenaz Germanic formula for "heaven and earth", notably naming earth first. Mentioned in the Norse Edda
  Edda
  
  The term Edda applies to the Old Norse Poetic Edda and Prose Edda, both of which were written down in medieval Iceland during the 13th century....
  , Skarpåker Stone
  Skarpåker Stone
  
  The Skarp?ker Stone found in Skarp?ker, Nyk?ping, S?rmland, Sweden, dated to the early 11th century. It bears a skaldic Younger Futhark inscription, transcribed in standardized Old East Norse:...
   and Old High German Wessobrunner Gebet
  Wessobrunn Prayer
  
  The Wessobrunn Prayer , sometimes called the Wessobrunn Creation Poem , believed to date from c790, is among the earliest known poetic works in Old High German....
   etc.
• Haljo
  Hel (realm)
  
  In Norse mythology, Helheim, the location, shares a name with Hel , a female figure associated with the location. In late Iceland sources, varying descriptions of Hel are given and various figures are described as being buried with items that will facilitate their journey to Hel after their death....
   Underworld
• Muþspell
  Muþspell
  
  *Mu?spell is a reconstructed Proto-Germanic form of the root behind the Norse accounts of Muspelheim and the German Muspilli. Both refer to cataclysmic descriptions of the end of the world....
   (see Muspilli
  Muspilli
  
  Muspilli is one of but two surviving pieces of Old High German epic poetry , dating to around 870 in poetry. One large fragment of the text has survived in the margins and empty pages of a codex marked as the possession of Louis the German and now in the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek ....
   and Muspelheim
  Muspelheim
  
  In Norse mythology, M?spellsheimr , also called M?spell, is a realm of fire. It is home to the fire J?tunn, and Surtr. It is fire; and the land to the North, Niflheim, is ice....
  ) Disastrous world-ending (c.f. Ragnarok
  RagNaRok
  
  Ragnar?k is the fifth album, released in 1995 on Metal Blade Records, by the Rock and roll/Heavy metal music/punk rock band GWAR.This album contains the most varied vocal stylings of any GWAR album, as the majority of the band lends their lungs to the tracklist , as well as guest villain Cardinal Syn....
  )

See also

• Germanic paganism
  Germanic paganism
  
  Germanic paganism refers to the religion beliefs of the Germanic peoples preceding Christianization. The best documented version of the Germanic pagan religions is 10th and 11th century Norse paganism, though other information can be found from Anglo-Saxon paganism and Continental Germanic mythology....
  
• List of Norse gods
• Vanir
  Vanir
  
  In Norse mythology, the Vanir are one of two groups of gods, the other being the ?sir. The two groups are described as having waged war against one another in the ?sir-Vanir War?, resulting in the unification of the two into a single tribe of gods....