Nu, Zeus, Odin, Loki
This gets a little drawn out in details of job descriptions but a general scan will help get the ideas I've written.
In dealing with the many aspects of the Gods/Goddesses you might consider the many aspects in nature that are displayed even if you're convinced that there is one God.
This entity shows many variables for consideration. It's written, (translated) Man is created in the image of God. Consider this writing.
The wide variety of emotions and varying thoughts, of any individual person here on Earth are an example.
For instance: Some people see me as a scholar. Some see me as a lover. Some see me as a father or a brother, a friend and some as an enemy and on and on.
My point is to demonstrate the Gods of the ancient past as different aspects of one thing called God.
Also accepted as aspects of The Universe by so many people that feel uncomfortable with the word God.
I'm not here to debate the existence or my belief in the existence. If I didn't believe in an existence this book wouldn't be written.
What I'm saying is what exists? And What good is it? Is the belief, they are separate Gods so different from believing they are aspects of one?
Is it hard to believe that you are happy one day and sad another? That you're forceful at some times and passive in other times?
These are all aspects of you. So do you have different self's? You might want to look at what you admit and what you deny.
People that believe in God believe that they are somehow created in God's image and if someone dares to call that image (God) by a different name they take it personal.
They will call a rock ground zero for creation and then slaughter each other to possess it, rock in the Middle East.
Realize these godly aspects were around long before the crusades and that there were reasons for their differences that are interwoven into the fabric of every persons life.
You'll notice it gets a little wordy and detailed and can seem to some to be drawn out. But just get the basic point of these relations. Also there are
a number of planets that also have the same name as the God form. (Venus, Mars, Jupiter, etc) It has a lot to do of how the planets names and influences came together.
Don't get hung up on this. It'll come together a little later on when I bring more clarification to it.
Nu: In Egypt Nu is the deification of the
primordial watery abyss.
The name nu means "abyss". Nu, was viewed as not having a gender, but also had aspects that could be represented as female or male.
Naunet (also spelt Nunet) is the female aspect. The name, Nu, with a female-gender ending.
The male aspect, Nun, is displayed with a male gender ending.
Nu was sometimes represented by a sacred lake, or, as at Abydos, by an underground stream. Known as God of the primordial water.
The womb can be seen in this light. Where things begin or are formed.
Zeus: (IPA: /zju?s/) Greek mythology is the king of the gods, the ruler of Mount Olympus and the god of the sky and thunder.
His symbols are the thunderbolt, eagle, bull, and oak.
The "cloud-gatherer" also shows certain traits from the cultures of the ancient Near East, like the scepter. Zeus is frequently depicted by Greek
artists in one of two poses: standing, striding forward, with a thunderbolt leveled in his raised right hand, or seated in majesty.
Zeus, in most traditions, was married to Hera, although, at the oracle of Dodona, his consort was Dione: according to the Iliad, he is the father of
Aphrodite by Dione.
He is known for his erotic escapades. Known as father to many. Including Athena, Apollo and Artemis, Hermes, Persephone (by Demeter),
Dionysus, Perseus, Heracles, Helen, Minos, and the Muses (by Mnemosyne); by Hera, he's fabled to have fathered Ares, Hebe and Hephaestus.
Of course a very noted God as the ancients go. He was well known for creating things and making things happen.
Jupiter or Jove: (Roman mythology) was the king of the gods, and the god of sky and thunder.
He's the equivalent of Zeus in the Greek pantheon.
He was called Iupiter (or Diespiter) Optimus Maximus ("Father God the best and greatest"); as the patron God of the Roman state, he ruled over
laws and social order.
Odin (from Old Norse Odinn), a mythological King of Sweden, is considered the chief god in Norse paganism.
Homologous with the Anglo-Saxon Woden and the Old High German Wotan, it is descended from Proto-Germanic Woinaz or Woanaz. The
name Odin is generally accepted as the modern translation; although, in some cases, older translations of his name may be used or preferred.
His name is related to "fury, excitation", "mind", or "poetry". His role, like many of the Norse gods, is complex.
He's associated with wisdom, war, battle, death, magic, poetry, prophecy, victory, and the hunt.
Loki:. Loki's relation with the gods varies by source. Known by many as the trickster.
Loki was known as an assistant to the greater Gods, and sometimes causing trouble to or for them. Known also to assist in the delivering of messages.
Loki is a shape shifter and in separate incidents he appears in many forms in different stories.
Loki's also known for his role in engineering the death of the god Balder.
Loki's fabled to have eventually, been bound by the gods, as penance for his transgression. A serpent drips venom from above him that his wife
Sigyn collects into a bowl. However, Sigyn must empty the bowl when it is full, and the venom that drops in the mean time causes Loki to writhe in pain.
The God(s) associations are for contemplation and consideration in the aspects of both wisdom and ignorance.
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