Pantheon Norse and Germanic
Æsir
Gods in Germanic paganism
- Members 18 on record
- Generations 2, as the accounts give them
Gods in company,
as the records
count them.
Not a fixed roster
The members
A family photograph
Each row stands a generation below the row above it, as the accounts give their kinship. Membership is what the records say.
What this means
18 records name this as the whole they are part of. That is what makes it a pantheon here — no class on Wikidata says so consistently, and nobody publishes a machine-readable roster.
So the list is complete in one direction only: a god whose record does not name this pantheon is missing even if every account places them in it — a gap in the data, not in the tradition. Accounts disagree about who belongs, too; the Twelve Olympians are twelve in some lists and fourteen in others.
The rows are counted from the kinship among the members themselves, as the accounts give it: a member whose parent is also a member stands a row below that parent. This is kinship inside the accounts — what the myths and the texts say, not a documented family — and where they disagree, every recorded parent is counted. Where the accounts loop — Gaia is Uranus’s mother and his consort — the loop is cut, not resolved. A documented human family is not drawn here, and neither is a member with no account kinship to another; both are listed below.
Kinship as the accounts give it,
not a documented family.
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I Eldest on record
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II A generation below
Members · 18
Everyone it counts
Gods first, then people — including those the photograph leaves out.
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Thor Hammer-wielding Norse god associated with thunder, lightning, storms, oaks, strength, and fertility -
Odin Widely attested deity in Norse mythology -
Loki Norse god of mischief, trickery, and deception -
Tyr Germanic deity -
Heimdall Watchman of the gods, and the guardian of the gods' stronghold in Norse mythology -
Njord One of the Vanir, a group of gods within Norse mythology -
Freyr Norse god associated with kingship, fertility, peace, prosperity, fair weather, and good harvest -
Bragi Skaldic god of poetry in Norse mythology -
Forseti Norse god of peace, truth, and justice -
Ull Norse deity -
Víðarr Norse deity -
Mímir Norse god of wisdom
Connections
How Æsir connects
Grouped by the kind of relationship, because a successor is not a son and a shared symbol is not an influence.
Affiliation 1
What this means
Association with a tradition or school. Traditions branch, overlap and re-merge; this is not a clean single-origin tree.
Does not imply a fixed roster · that every account of the tradition knows this figure
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Text 2
What this means
A work, its editions and its witnesses are distinct; their dates are not interchangeable.
Does not imply that the work is the only account · that the work is contemporary with what it describes
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Sources
Sources and evidence
Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.
3 statements on this record
- 3 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it.
Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.
Three layers, three licences
- Text
- Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted, not merged
- Pictures
- Wikimedia Commons · each file’s own terms
Review
Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.
Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
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