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You don’t understand, Germans are really really weird. They are the only Indo-European Pagans to not have the Skyfather as the head of Pantheon. Wotan/Odin is NOT the Skyfather. He is really really weird. Romans identified him as Hermes.
>He is the God of Wanderer.
Oh my god … where did ancient Germans travel to? In what weird places did they end up.
>He is the God of Secrets and Magic
What did the Germans learn about on their travels? Germans always had weirdly good relations with Scythians. Which is not actually weird since Greeks also had good relations with them and they are all Indo-European.
>He is the God of Runes
Wait. Germans learned about the written languages of the large urban Slave Empires? And they brought it back?
>He is the God of the Berserker rage
>He is the God of Strangers
>He is the God of Death, who challenges people to duels to claim you as warrior for his Army of the Dead
This is horrifying. I can’t imagine what the first Wotan cultists must have been like. They must have impressed the Germans so much with their adventures, knowledge and prowess, that they accepted their new God as the new Chief of the Gods.

THIS. DOES. NOT. HAPPEN. ELSEWHERE.
You really do not understand how WEIRD this is. Romans did crazy stuff, but nothing like this. Greeks adopted a lot of foreign deities, even merged Zeus and Yahweh, but the horrifying implications of Germans traveling the world in secret and bringing them home is terrifying

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