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There is so much there to unravel. "Don" occurs in river names in Britain of course as well as the European Don and Danube. Must be a very early IE name

Odin gets around and I have previously linked him to the late Neolithic, one-eyed Dagenham Idol - see my drawing at http://www.megalithic.co.uk/modules.php?op=modload&name=a312&file=index&do=showpic&pid=12127

Several Bronze/Iron Age wooden carvings of Odin also found in Denmark

I too reckon his roots lie in eastern shamanism. Consider too the basic attributes of the shaman - drumming, animism, shape shifting, totem animals, spirit walking, healing, magic.. If Odin is also Woden and Wotan - can he also be the meso-American Votan? Consider Votan's attributes too - drumming, healing, magic. Don't laugh, but could there be a common source? Odin/Woden/Wotan came westwards into northern Europe while Votan migrated from Siberia via the Bering Straights. Or is Votan/Wotan just a coincidence? Two entirely different and unconnected shamanic gods?

Absolutely, though as I said I have gone from believing he was entirely the shamanic native god adopted by the protovikings to thinking he has retained far too much of indoeuropean culture. I think we are closer than you think. As with Jesus Christ, his name and personality is the only thing that is originally christian, the rest was nearly all borrowed from the current religions at the time and elements from the neighbours. So to adopt a compromise, Odin is essentially a shamanic figure mixed with IE elements. The reason why I have veered towards the IE is finding many elements in him that can be found in Attis or other Bronze Age gods. The Yggdrasil tree is a shamanic device which is also far too ubiquitous in ancient belief in far too distant countries. When I say an eastern origin, I am obviously referring to a siberian one and related to the finns who occupied all of the tundra from east to scandinavia during the megalithic. I presume you are not referring to the Indoeuropeans when you say he must have had an eastern origin, since they also came from the east .

Later I will have a look at the rest of the stuff yo u mention. Thanks a lot.

oops! That should be Bering Strait not Straight