Talk:Othinus/@comment-25013293-20140531233935/@comment-11571396-20140601222122

Actually, from Volume NT9, Chapter 8, Part 4, we get the sentence "It was said belief was initially centered on a hammer-wielding lightning god, but it shifted to a lance-wielding god of war at some point". It seems that while Othinus is Odin, Norse Mythology itself predates Othinus.

It is likely that either she intentionally inserted herself within Norse Mythology as part of the ritual, or that while wandering the world as a Magic God, rewriting the world over and over again, people just naturally decided to append her deeds and legends to that religion after the fact. Either way, Othinus herself has yet to comment on this.

This is not an unique case. An example of the former would be the 47 Portals of Japan. These portals did not originally exist in the Japanese islands but became realized after Tadataka Ino, a Japanese surveyor known for completing the first map of Japan in his work named the Dai Nihon Enkai Yochi Zenzu, wrote them into existence on his maps, knowing full well that the source and the duplicate will affect each other. Another one would be St Peter's Cross. According to OT Volume 10, St Peter intentionally chose the conditions for his death so that the Cross would gain its powers. He clearly couldn't have given it powers based on legends of his own death that hadn't happened yet, so he must have created a new phenomenon within the framework of Christianity at that point.