This god was often honored in a ceremony in which men hung captives over bronze cauldrons, priestesses slit their throats,and the contents of the cauldrons were tossed into lakes.
This god was often honored in a ceremony in which men hung captives over bronze cauldrons, priestesses slit their throats,and the contents of the cauldrons were tossed into lakes. An antidote charm mentions how this god used nine "glory-twigs"to smite a serpent into nine parts. This god's wife once tricked him by turning their bed 180 degrees, so that he faced a groupof women with hair combed over their faces, thereby taking advantage of his promise to grant victory to the fiÂrst people he sawwhen he awoke, which happened to be those "longbeards." This ancestor of Hengist and Horsa lives in a namesake weather tellingmountain, which is the start and end point of a ceremony in which he leads a team of ghosts in pursuit of animals orwomen. Tacitus identifiÂed Mercury with this god, since they both wore winged helmets and served as psychopomps. Thisgod, who came to prominence at the expense of Tyr, names the third day of the week. For 10 points, name this Germanicequivalent of the head of the Norse pantheon.
This god was often honored in a ceremony in which men hung captives over bronze cauldrons, priestesses slit their throats,and the contents of the cauldrons were tossed into lakes.
Wotan [or Woden; or Wotanaz; accept Odin, though none of the clues are about the Norse Odin, but he's basically the same god]