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human
He is dead. Killed by the slaves of a middle eastern cult.
gpt
dont be so pessimistic. gods are harder to kill than you think
human
Odin has many similarities with Jesus, such as crucifixion as you've pointed out.
However Odin can also be compared to Adam, for two reasons: (1) Odin's title as the Allfather could be interpreted as 'the father of all men', which Adam was. (2) Odin made a sacrifice for wisdom, his eye for seeing what is unseen. Adam ate the fruit of knowledge and too gained wisdom, at the cost of forsaking paradise.

Also, consider Genesis 3:15
>'I will put enmity between you (the serpent) and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.

The above passage mentions a specific 'he' rather than 'they' when referring to offspring, suggesting that this is a specific person God is referring to. Who bruises and is bruised by the serpent? The obvious answer is Jesus, he who conquered death but had to be crucified first. Thor, son of Odin, too confronts the serpent Jörmungandr and slays it while being slain himself.

Based on this knowledge, I believe Odin is the reflection of both the fall and redemption of man. While Adam's fall is tragic, and the result of him succumbing to sin (obeying a woman, who obeyed the serpent), it is only because he is confined by time and does not yet have the wisdom (despite eating of the forbidden tree) to know of his offspring's eventual triumph. Odin's gain of wisdom is not out of sin but sacrifice, and is perhaps what Adam becomes after his earthly death. The Allfather who knows that all earthly battles will eventually be lost, but wants his offspring to fight nonetheless .
gpt
theres also his associations with healing and destroying snakes, like the 9 herbs charm. ive always interpreted 'all-father' as meaning something like 'the Father' that christ speaks of. but interesting interpretation 
in the 9 herbs charm, a family in the forest is attacked by a giant serpent; when it tears the father of the house in two pieces, woden suddenly appears holding 9 herb sticks, which he throws on the ground, causing the serpent to burst into 9 pieces, which dissolve into smaller serpents and disperse into the forest 

your interpreting of it would explain why hes called the 'Grey god', always figured that had more to do with morality than his beard like most say. he always seems like the kind of god with good intentions, but willing to do absolutely anything to get to those good goals. there are numerous, strange parallels to the bible and germanic paganism. theres an old charm or spell, i forget which, the merseberg incantations i believe, where one is supposed to heal a broken horses leg by chanting 'blood to blood, flesh to flesh and bone to bone'. remarkably similiar to what god declares to adam when he creates eve, calling her the flesh of his flesh and blood of his blood. there is an even older hindu charm, where one heals another man, that involves the same chanting, blood to blood and bone to bone. what this all means and points to, i am still unsure
human
I never heard of the 'Grey god' title, but now that you mention it, it seems a fitting name for the archetype. The 'flesh to flesh...' charms you speak of seem to call for the ordering bodily elements. And it is Adam, not God who says: 
>this at last is bone of my bone, and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken from Man. (Genesis 2:23)


This is what I came to realize once I started studying the bible. Christ is the god of perfection, because he is God above all else.
gpt
>The 'flesh to flesh...' charms you speak of seem to call for the ordering bodily elements.
this makes sense to me, and makes sense why the charms would call to this primordial ordering of anatomy. its still remarkable that three different cultures across time and space would have very similar phrasing for such a thing. 
Phol and Wodan were riding to the woods,
and the foot of Balder's foal was sprained
So Sinthgunt, Sunna's sister, conjured it;
and Frija, Volla's sister, conjured it;
and Wodan conjured it, as well he could:

Like bone-sprain, so blood-sprain,
so joint-sprain:
Bone to bone, blood to blood,
joints to joints, so may they be glued.

 Saint Olav rode in
 green wood;
 broke his little
 horse's foot.
 Bone to bone,
 flesh to flesh,
 skin to skin.
 In the name of God,
 amen.

1. Grower (Rohani)[j] art thou, grower, grower of severed bone; make this grow. O arundhatī [k]
2. What of thee is torn, what of thee is inflamed (?), what of thee is crushed (?) in thyself
may Dhātar[l] excellently put that together again, joint with joint.
3. Let thy marrow come together with marrow, and thy joint together with joint;
together let what of your flesh has fallen apart, together let thy bone grow over.
4. Let marrow be put together with marrow; let skin grow with skin;
let thy blood, bone grow; let flesh grow with flesh.
5. Fit thou together hair with hair; fit together skin with skin;
let thy blood, bone grow; put together what is severed, O herb...