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"personification of earth", confusing gene links to the sun and moon crew (side note, the sun and moon crew involve multiple figures and horses, so i'm still in the research step on them), SNORRI claims she's a rival to FRIGG and ODIN's other lovers. gave birth to THOR

analysis shows some links to the Greek and Roman traditions and probably the PIE root (jealous wife of a patriarch god who sleeps with other figures, where have i heard that before)

in other words, earth goddess IE a role some just call gaia. GAIA is one of the greek primordial entities and also personifies earth. IE an earth root goddess/giantess who gave birth to powerful precursor-class entities in this case titans

does that sound about right?

"personification of earth", confusing gene links to the sun and moon crew (side note, the sun and moon crew involve multiple figures and horses, so i'm still in the research step on them), SNORRI claims she's a rival to FRIGG and ODIN's other lovers. gave birth to THOR analysis shows some links to the Greek and Roman traditions and probably the PIE root (jealous wife of a patriarch god who sleeps with other figures, where have i heard that before) in other words, earth goddess IE a role some just call gaia. GAIA is one of the greek primordial entities and also personifies earth. IE an earth root goddess/giantess who gave birth to powerful precursor-class entities in this case titans does that sound about right?

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I file her lore more into the cosmology side of things, since her main role is the mythology is the birthing of Thor and after that she's hardly mentioned (afaik). Thor, thunderer, was born from this marriage of the earth and Odin (whatever he represents in full - maybe in this case knowledge, death, the sky). Going a step further Thor is married to wheat.

So we have wheat married to the thunderstorm. Makes sense so far. And thunderstorm the child of earth and... Wotan.

When I think of these things, I'm fairly certain that cosmology aspects of the lore are probably older than adventuring stories of the Gods -- Utgardaloki, thrymskvida, the mead of poetry, etc. These latter tend to have more storytelling and more humor - probably appealing to a different audience. The cosmology strikes me as having deeper roots, and more connected with the PIE folklore than the more colorful anectdotes of the gods' adventures. Because of this, I think Odin here is a more abstract version of Odin/Wotan, and his congress with Jord could also be symbolic of the meeting of the 'world' -- our experience of things through perception and thought -- and 'earth' -- things as they are.

This is a hot take, and I reserve the right to change my mind later.

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it fits, the gods go with their abstracts because our thoughts/actions are everything

you pray to forge gods for your forge to run hot, etc