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From: jsdy@hadron.UUCP (Joseph S. D. Yao)
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Subject: Re: Thor (spoiler)
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Date: Sat, 23-Feb-85 01:01:06 EST
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>  [Tiwaz]                                           ...  Is there *any*
> mythological basis to this?  I always thought that Odin was right there
> close to the beginning of the Asgardian (Aesiric?) line.

Tiwaz (Tiu/Tiw) was an old, old sky god in some Germanic line.  He did
predate Woden/Odin by a couple of generations; could have been the
grandpere.  He's not mentioned in my copy of the Prose Edda; but, then,
Odin wouldn't need to ask about himself! I don't have a copy of the
Poetic Edda here.  Odin started the Aesir later.

> that the eye said as a fairy tale, but the eye told Thor that his mother was
> the Earth-spirit, which Mother Earth herself verified in Thor #301.

Best way to lie is to tell some truth.

Joe Yao		hadron!jsdy@seismo.{ARPA,UUCP}