Norse mythology points to the sacrifice being necessary to learn magic runes. As an obsessor of knowledge, in particular anything that could somehow help him to survive Ragnarok, Odin does a lot of things that are in the pursuit of that.
i really enjoy how odin is a kind of insane old power-hungry codger, much like how zeus is a massive raging shithead.
Then we have Väinämöinen, who’s a chiller wackier version of odin. He might steal your eyes or whatever but he’d probably end up feeling a bit bad about it.
Norse mythology points to the sacrifice being necessary to learn magic runes. As an obsessor of knowledge, in particular anything that could somehow help him to survive Ragnarok, Odin does a lot of things that are in the pursuit of that.
i really enjoy how odin is a kind of insane old power-hungry codger, much like how zeus is a massive raging shithead.
Then we have Väinämöinen, who’s a chiller wackier version of odin. He might steal your eyes or whatever but he’d probably end up feeling a bit bad about it.