Odin
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Odin is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 5 times across 5 issues between November 17, 2023 and September 20, 2024. The archive places it in contexts such as “Odin killing Ymir”; “mythical genealogies linking their royal families to Odin”; “the claimed line of descent from Odin to Joe Biden”. It most often appears alongside Christianity, Bible, Bryan Caplan.
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- Category: People
- Mention count: 5
- Issue count: 5
- First seen: November 17, 2023
- Last seen: September 20, 2024
Appears In
- Book Review: I See Satan Fall Like Lightning
- Links For January 2024
- Open Thread 312
- Your Book Review: Silver Age Marvel Comics
- Your Book Review: The Ballad of the White Horse
Related Pages
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- Christianity (3 shared issues)
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- Bible (2 shared issues)
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- Bryan Caplan (2 shared issues)
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- Buddhism (2 shared issues)
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- Germany (2 shared issues)
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- God (2 shared issues)
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- Golden Fleece (2 shared issues)
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- Hercules (2 shared issues)
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- Israel (2 shared issues)
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- Jason (2 shared issues)
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- Jesus (2 shared issues)
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- Joe Biden (2 shared issues)
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Source Context
Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
Sort of. Girard says that all of the primeval “we killed a guy and created the world from his corpse” myths fit his pattern - so Marduk killing Tiamat, Odin killing Ymir, etc. Maybe Cronus killing Ouranos counts, even if he didn’t exactly create the world from his corpse. The point is, there sure are a lot of “the world started with a primordial murder” myths, and maybe they’re distorted, half-remembered descriptions of the single-victim process founding civilization.
15: Ancient Germanic kingdoms used to devise mythical genealogies linking their royal families to Odin. And lots of ethnically-Northern-European people are descended from ancient Germanic kings. Combine these facts, and you can chart the 55-generation line of descent from Odin to Joe Biden. I think this has actually made me 0.0001% prouder to be an American. The bottom of the chart is Joe Biden’s real relatives, and the top is the real mythological line of Anglo-Saxon kings, but is the middle accurate? I notice it traces Biden’s ancestry much further than most credible articles on the subject, which go up to the Taylors at best. But it seems to be drawing off of this genealogy database. If there’s a fake step in there somewhere, I can’t tell where it is [UPDATE: in the comments, The Genealogian identifies the fake steps]
1: Corrections on links: the pro-Palestine slogan “from the river to the sea” was banned only in Berlin, not all of Germany, and has since been unbanned. And our resident Genealogian critiques the claimed line of descent from Odin to Joe Biden.
Thor is in love with Jane Foster, but his father Odin refuses to allow his son, a god, to have a romantic relationship with a human.
So Alfred has hope and his enemies do not. The Vikings display both errors of hope simultaneously. They presume that their victory is certain, merely because they have won over and over and their enemy is outnumbered, scattered, and demoralized. Yet Guthrum also despairs for he has no hope of anything he does lasting beyond his life. All will burn in Surtr’s fire, and all will die with Odin. As Chesterton writes in his book Orthodoxy:
Inline links: Surtr’s fire, Orthodoxy