ЯВ - Язичницький Вісник | The understanding of the Germanic pantheon underwent numerous transfor...

The understanding of the Germanic pantheon underwent numerous transformations throughout the history of the Germanic tribes. In the archaic era, the God Tyr was revered as the Uranic Patriarch - His mythological image being a legacy of the ancient Indo-European archetype of the Sky-Father. It is likely that in archaic theogonic myths His Father was considered to be Gymir, the Thurs, whose image possesses characteristic uranic traits (possibly the hardness of Gymir’s forehead as an image of the Firmament of Heaven). In later myths, Tyr’s Father is named as Odin - the Chthonic God of Death, the Great Shaman, and the Wild Hunter - which is connected with the uranization of Odin’s mythological image and the reinterpretation of cosmology.It is entirely possible that in ancient Germanic Paganism Thor was regarded as the Son of Tyr, the Sky-Father, rather than of the Infernal God Odin. It is known that the Indo-Europeans understood the Thunder God as a Dynamic Hypostasis, as a Manifestation of the Uranic DeityHH