Were the Norse Gods the Same as the Greek/Roman Gods under a different name?
Were the Norse Gods the Same as the Greek/Roman Gods under a different name?
Tyler Hughes
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Gabriel Torres
All indo-europeans share a rather similar pantheon where the Thunder-God is usually the most important one.
Jace Moore
it depends, if you believe in the jungian archethypes. If you do, you will find that all pantheons have many eerie similarities.
Chase Bennett
No, they were completely different.
Mason Price
Depends on what you mean.
Were they the same gods in the sense that they were real beings who interacted with humans at some point and were called by different names by different peoples? I don't think so.
Were they the same gods in the sense that their names and attributes can be refered to a common origin? Some were, some weren't.
Tacitus relates that the Germans worshipped mainly Mercury, Hercules and Mars, probably Wotan, Donar and Tyr. The Germans apparently also interpreted Odin/Wotan as Mercury and Thor as either Jupiter or Hercules.
>Latin dies Iovis ('day of Jupiter') was converted into Proto-Germanic *Þonares dagaz ("Thor's day"), from which stems modern English "Thursday" and all other Germanic weekday cognates.
However, scholars generally agree today that Tyr, not Thor, is the Germanic equivalent of the PIE sky god, which Jupiter ultimately derives from. Tyr might have been the main deity of the Germanic pantheon at some time, before he was replaced by Odin (not unlike Yahweh replaced El as the head of the proto-Hebrew pantheon).
>the origins of his name and his possible relationship to Tuisto (see Tacitus' Germania) suggest he was once considered the father of the gods and head of the pantheon, since his name is ultimately cognate to that of *Dyeus (cf. Dyaus), the reconstructed chief deity in Indo-European religion. It is assumed that Tîwaz was overtaken in popularity and in authority by both Odin and Thor at some point during the Migration Age, as Odin shares his role as God of war.
Aaron Nguyen
Kind of.
Ian Wood
Some have also proposed that the Germanic god Tuisto is related to the Vedic Tvastar.
>Jacob (2005) attempts to establish a genealogical relationship between Tuisto and Ymir based on etymology and a comparison with (post-)Vedic Indian mythology: as Tvastr, through his daughter Saranyū and her husband Vivaswān, is said to have been the grandfather of the twins Yama and Yami, so Jacob argues that the Germanic Tuisto (assuming a connection with Tvastr) must originally have been the grandfather of Ymir (cognate to Yama). Incidentally, Indian mythology also places Manu (cognate to Germanic Mannus), the Vedic progenitor of mankind, as a son of Vivaswān, thus making him the brother of Yama/Ymir.
Funny thing, according to Tacitus, in the Germanic mythology Mannus was the progenitor of the Germanic race. In Vedic mythology and Hinduism, Manu is the name of the primeval man and progenitor of the human race.
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Connor Cook
Odin is considered by an increasing number of scholars to have been a revered Chief/Shaman of Bronze Age Germanic culture. Over time his fame took him to Godhood.
Adam Reed
t. Euhemerus
Ian Hall
Certainly there were similarities which could point to a common cognitive memetic ancestry but taking them at face value, no.
Hunter Cox
Hey, a huge number of Gods began as revered, feared, and beloved humans.
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Levi Anderson
Sort of. A lot of good stuff has already been posted in here, so I'm just going to add this.
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The term for "a god" was *deiwos,[4] reflected in Hittite, sius; Latin, deus, divus; Sanskrit, deva; Avestan, daeva (later, Persian, div); Welsh, duw; Irish, dia; Old Norse, tívurr; Lithuanian, Dievas; Latvian, Dievs.[5]
*Seh2ul is reconstructed based off the Greek god Helios, the Roman god Sol, the Celtic goddess Sul/Suil, the Norse goddess Sól, the Germanic goddess *Sowilō, the Celtic Solntse, the Hittite goddess "UTU-liya",[11] and the Vedic god Surya.[12] *Meh1not is reconstructed based off the Norse god Máni, the Hittite god Myesyats,[11] and the Lithuanian god *Meno, or Mėnuo (Mėnulis).[13]
The word *prihxeha-, meaning "wife" has been reconstructed based off the Sanskrit word priyā, meaning "wife," the Old Norse word frī, meaning "beloved," and the Old English word frēo, meaning "woman. The name of the Norse goddess Frigg is derived from this root, but there is little evidence to support the reconstruction of a Proto-Indo-European goddess with this name.[15]
*Perkwunos has been reconstructed as the Proto-Indo-European god of lightning and storms. His name literally means "The Striker." He is reconstructed based off the Norse goddess Fjǫrgyn (the mother of Thor), the Lithuanian god Perkūnas, and the Slavic god Perúnú. The Vedic god Parjánya may also be related, but his possible connection to *Perkwunos is still under dispute.[18] The name of *Perkwunos may also be attested in Greek as kεραυνός (Keraunós), an epithet of the god Zeus meaning "thunder-shaker."[19]
Reflexes of *Manu include Indic Manu, Germanic Mannus; of Yemo, Indic Yama, Avestan Yima, Norse Ymir, possibly Roman Remus (< earlier Italic *iemus).[41]
Lucas Robinson
This
Kevin Walker
Interpretario Graeca
John Brown
No
Caleb Perry
most of them share common archetypes but in different specifications
Evan Clark
wasn't aleyander the great born cause his mom fucked with a snake (zeus)?
and a minotaur was bor from a girl fucking a bull, pan was half goat and fucked everything he saw...
Adrian Nelson
and loki is supposed to be the evil guy in the story
Nicholas Wilson
lol no
Neither party is the protagonist nor antagonist. It's just Loki getting shafted as usual
Landon Rogers
>Jesus
>the 'emperor' who was made it by a public act so he could claim greatness
>natives worshipping the white man is the same as a charismatic leader
Mason Gray
that isn't the full story
loki tricking the giant resulted in a war, the bad blood between asgard and Jötunheim and will in the end lead to ragnaröck and the downfall of the gods
Camden Gomez
Not an argument