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Main Name (Old English)Name meaning Attestations Cyning "King" wuldres Cyning "King of Glory" The Dream of the Rood [1]: Dryhten [2] "Lord" ece Dryhten "eternal Lord" Cædmon's hymn [3]
Woden, king of the gods and god of wisdom. Cognate to Norse Odin. Source of the word 'Wednesday'. Tīw, a war god and possibly a sky god. Cognate to Norse Týr, as well as Greek Zeus, Roman Jupiter, Baltic Dievs/Dievas and Hindu Dyaus. Source of the word 'Tuesday'. Thunor, god of thunder and cognate to Norse Thor and source of the word 'Thursday'.
There are various names of God, many of which enumerate the various qualities of a Supreme Being. The English word god (and its equivalent in other languages) is used by multiple religions as a noun to refer to different deities, or specifically to the Supreme Being, as denoted in English by the capitalized and uncapitalized terms God and god. [1]
The Old English words for a god were ēs and ōs, and they may be reflected in such place-names as Easole ("God's Ridge") in Kent and Eisey ("God's Island") in Wiltshire. [ 95 ] The deity for whom we have most evidence is Woden , as "traces of his cult are scattered more widely over the rolling English countryside than those of any other ...
The Moon God: Lunar entity that dwells in the Dimension of Enno-Lunn. Arwassa The Silent Shouter on the Hill: A humanoid-torso with tentacles instead of limbs, and a short neck ending in a toothless, featureless mouth. Atlach-Nacha The Spider God, Spinner in Darkness: A giant spider with a human-like face. Ayi'ig The Serpent Goddess, Aeg, Aega
The English word god comes from the Old English god, which itself is derived from the Proto-Germanic *gudą.Its cognates in other Germanic languages include guþ, gudis (both Gothic), guð (), god (Old Saxon, Old Frisian, and Old Dutch), and got (Old High German).
Saxnōt , Seaxnet, Seaxnēat, Saxnat (Old English) Contested: None attested: None attested: Old Saxon Baptismal Vow, Old English royal genealogies Thor: Þórr (North Germanic), Þunor (Old English), Thunaer (Old Saxon), Donar (Southern Germanic areas) "Thunder", all names stem from Proto-Germanic *ÞunraR [13] (Gives his name to Thursday).
Old Norse Yngvi, Old High German Ing/Ingwi [1] and Old English Ing are names that relate to a theonym which appears to have been the older name for the god Freyr. Proto-Germanic Ingwaz was the legendary ancestor of the Ingaevones , or more accurately Ingvaeones , and is also the reconstructed name of the Elder Futhark rune ᛜ and Anglo-Saxon ...