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Ashigaru
posted 12-05-13 10:57 PM EDT (US)
Thought you guys might find this to be a fun article. I came across it while doing my Sertorius research, and the gist is that Hannibal, Sertorius, and Julius Civilis, those one-eyed war lords who annoyed the Romans so, may have had their aspects incorporated into the iconography of Odin.
It's a cool article, if a bit silly, and I desperately wish it was true, because that's such a fun idea.
Africa, Thomas W. 1970. “The One-Eyed Man against Rome: An Exercise in Euhemerism.” Historia 19: 528–38.
It's available on JSTOR.
ShieldWall
Ashigaru
posted 12-16-13 11:28 AM
EDT (US)
3 / 5
I've read a bit about ancient religions and it's striking how many parallels they share. It's as if one group of people invented a pantheon of gods and the rest of the world adopted it only with different names and tweaked stories. So I'd assume the origins of Odin and the Norse gods goes back long before Rome arrived on the scene. Nice idea though.