Odin One Eye All Father

 Odin's quest for knowledge is never-ending, and he appears to be willing to pay any price for the knowledge of life's secrets that he so desperately desires. He hanged himself, injured himself with his spear, and fasted from food and drink for nine days and nights in order to find the runes.

On another time, he went to Mimir's Well, which is definitely the Well of Urd, near the roots of the world-tree Yggdrasil. There lived Mimir, a shadowy creature with unsurpassed knowledge of all things among the inhabitants of the cosmos. He was able to achieve this position in part by drinking water from the well, which contained cosmic knowledge.

Odin asked Mimir for a drink of water when he arrived. Knowing the value of such a draught, the well’s guardian denied unless the seeker offered an eye in exchange. We can only speculate as to whether Odin gouged out one of his eyeballs and tossed it into the well right away or after much contemplation. Mimir dipped his horn into the well and offered the now-one-eyed god a drink after making the requisite sacrifice.

An Interpretation

The story's most overarching and evident theme is that for those who share Odin's values, no sacrifice is too great for knowledge. However, the (unfortunately fragmented) sources for our current understanding of Norse and other Germanic peoples' pre-Christian mythology and religion are silent on what kind of wisdom Odin gained in return for his eye. We can, however, make an educated guess.

Odin's sacrifice of one eye is particularly notable. Consider the amazing number of expressions that employ vision as a metaphor for perceiving and comprehending something, both in everyday use and in the works of the great canonical poets. Odin's eye was sacrificed in exchange for better perception, therefore his dedication of one eye most likely indicates a trade-off of one type of perception for another.

So, which form of vision was replaced by which other mode? The answer to this question can be found in Mimir’s character. Mimir, whose name means “Rememberer,” appears to have been the entity who advised the gods on how to live in line with ancestral tradition and, more broadly, knowledge.

Odin sacrificed what we could call his “lower self” to his “higher self” in the story of Odin’s discovery of the runes. His loss of an eye should undoubtedly be interpreted in the same way: he traded a profane, ordinary style of perception beset by a plethora of little annoyances for a sacred mode of perception informed by divine, ancestral wisdom.

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Odin is the deity of wisdom, knowledge, and war in Norse mythology. He sacrificed one eye for a sip from Mimir's Well of Knowledge in order to see into the future. In exchange for nine days of drinking from the well, he gave away his right eye. He left it there when he returned to Asgard with his newfound knowledge and was able to keep a watch on what was going on in Midgard, according to legend (Earth).

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