Odin

The god of ))attles, tlie old German Siiblxtoth. tlie same as the Scandinavian ^yodan. He is the great hero in the Edda and one of the creators of man. Roman antiquity regarded him as one with Hermes or Mercury (Budlia), and modern Orientalism (Sir W. Jonesi accordingly confused him with Buddha. In the Pantheon of the Norsemen, he is the "father of the gods" and divine wisdom, and as such he is of course Hermes or the creative wisdom. Odin or Wodan in creating the first man from trees — the Ask (asli) and Embla (the alder) — endowed tlvem with life and soul. TToniiwith intellect, and Lodur with form and color.