I've read from a few sources that some equate the Irish god Lugh(or Lugus) with Norse/Germanic god Odin. Their atributes are very similar, but in ancient times everyone had a god/goddess that could equate to another god/goddess that didnt, make them the same one however... but they could have once been the same one eons ago. What do you all think.
'Sameness' is always tricky when it comes to gods and appropriation. Those Norse sure did like their boats and travel though. Doesn't seem like much of a stretch. Most gods are an evolution from a previous version of themselves.
You have to consider that the Norse invaded Ireland many times until it became a Viking outpost and the two lines interbred (at least the coastal villages, some of the interior was left pure). When two worlds collide like that sometimes the lines that seperate them become blurred.
I have been really confused lately, I have a lot of German and Irish/English in my blood and I feel the need to honor gods of both of those people. Heron seems very well versed in this sort of thing. Do you think this could be conflicting?
I don't think their all that similar. I don't know as much about Odin as I should, but I'm going to burn Lugh in effige in the hopes he'll be reborn as a good harvest for my little garden I planted this year.
i think the romans (when they were colonizing celtic and other territories) tried to lump things togather, equate them with each other, the way americans do. from what i've been able to read and explore, my conclusion is that they were WAAAAAAAAAAAY off the beam doing so. lugh, summer time, too hot, jack of all trades, or am i mixing two or more of the de dana up with each other myself? odin, woden, grand daddy of vallhalla, shows you my simplistic lack of further depth about these names. i don't even quite see what a relationship would be, let alone similarities though. =^^= .../\...
Danu, is the mother goddess in celtic myth, Lugh is just the god of the sun, father of CUCHULAINN, Odin is the leader of the norse gods.
You have to consider origins. They are both cultural evolutions of a Proto-Indo-European deity prior to the split that the Celtic and Teutonic peoples came out of. In Gaul, there was Ogmios-Smeartus, who was seperated into Ogma (Ogmios} and Lugus in Ireland by the monks who recorded the lore. Ogmios Smeartus would be the one who is congnate to Odin, and the Dagda being his Woden Chthonic aspects. You must remember that Christians wrote the lore down, and took many liberties. You must also remember that names, titles and keenings are all seperate things that can applie to the same "object".
