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The Germanic god Thor (Old Norse: Þórr) is referred to by many names in Old Norse poetry and literature. Some of the names come from the Prose Edda list Nafnaþulur , and are not attested elsewhere, while other names are well attested throughout the sources of Norse mythology.
Hu Fengya, God of Thunder of the East; Bing Jiulu, God of Thunder of the South; Rong Yaoling, God of Thunder of the West; Lu Xingmeng, God of Thunder of the North; Sun Zhener, God of Thunder of the Center; Thunder Kings of the Five Regions. Yan Fu, Thunder King of the East; Zhuo Bin, Thunder King of the South; Gao Hui, Thunder King of the West
Thor's Fight with the Giants (Tors strid med jättarna) by Mårten Eskil Winge (1872).. Thor (from Old Norse: Þórr) is a prominent god in Germanic paganism.In Norse mythology, he is a hammer-wielding god associated with lightning, thunder, storms, sacred groves and trees, strength, the protection of humankind, hallowing, and fertility.
Earendel, god of rising light and/or a star; Eostre, considered to continue the Proto-Indo-European dawn goddess; Freyr, god of sunshine, among other things; Sól, goddess and personification of the sun; Teiwaz, as a reflex of *Dyeus, was probably originally god of the day-lit sky; Thor, god of lightning, thunder, weather, storms, and the sky
In Norse mythology, Thor is the god of thunder and the sound of thunder comes from the chariot he rides across the sky. The lightning comes from his hammer Mjölnir. [2] In Finnish mythology, Ukko (engl. Old Man) is the god of thunder, sky and weather. The Finnish word for thunder is ukkonen, derived from the god's name. [3]
The Slavic thunder-god Perūn is said to frequently strike oaks to put fire within them, and the Norse thunder-god Thor to strike his foes the giants when they hide under an oak. [3] [33] Thor famously also had at least one sacred oak dedicated to him. According to Belarusian folklore, Piarun made the first fire ever by striking a tree in which ...
English name Greek name Description The Twelve Titans Coeus: Κοῖος (Koîos) God of intellect and the axis of heaven around which the constellations revolved. Crius: Κρεῖος (Kreîos) The least individualized of the Twelve Titans, he is the father of Astraeus, Pallas, and Perses. Implied to be the god of constellations. Cronus ...
The name Thor descends from the Proto-Germanic theonym *Þun(a)raz ('Thunder'). [7] According to scholar Peter Jackson, those theonyms may have originally emerged as the result of the fossilization of an original epithet (or epiclesis) of the Proto-Indo-European thunder-god *Perk w unos. [8] from which Perkunas also descended from [9]