{"id":12247,"date":"2018-05-30T04:30:26","date_gmt":"2018-05-30T04:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jassa.org\/?p=12247"},"modified":"2018-05-30T04:30:26","modified_gmt":"2018-05-30T04:30:26","slug":"convergence-of-fire-and-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jassa.org\/?p=12247","title":{"rendered":"Convergence of Fire and Water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are not that many mentions of Wodan in the continental Germanic literature. One of the more famous ones is the one from the Life of Columban by Jonas of Bobbio. The mention of the Slavs in that work was already discussed\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jassa.org\/?p=5287\">here<\/a><\/span>. But the same work talks of the Swabians and their worship of Wodan &#8211; a practice that Saint Columban was, of course, upset with. The manuscripts use the following words for the case:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Vodano<\/li>\n<li>Vadono<\/li>\n<li>Wodano<\/li>\n<li>Woda<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jassa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/votano.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-12248 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jassa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/votano.jpg?resize=625%2C886\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"886\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jassa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/votano.jpg?resize=722%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 722w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jassa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/votano.jpg?resize=211%2C300&amp;ssl=1 211w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jassa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/votano.jpg?resize=768%2C1090&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jassa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/votano.jpg?resize=624%2C885&amp;ssl=1 624w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jassa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/votano.jpg?w=1463&amp;ssl=1 1463w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jassa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/votano.jpg?w=1250 1250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now,\u00a0<i>woda<\/i>\u00a0means, of course, &#8220;<strong>water<\/strong>&#8221; in Slavic &#8211; an interesting form of the above\u00a0<strong><em>Wodan<\/em><\/strong> name. More on that topic <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jassa.org\/?p=9744\">here<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, it is interesting to notice that the Lueneburg Slavs or, if you will, Wends who were also known as the Drevan\u00e9,\u00a0Drzewianie,\u00a0<i><span lang=\"de\">Drav\u00e4no-Polaben<\/span><\/i>\u00a0or\u00a0<i>Drevanen <\/i>had a similar term for &#8220;fire&#8221;<i>.\u00a0<\/i>Karol Arno\u0161t Muka observes that these Slavs took the word for <strong>fire<\/strong> and, as was common for words otherwise beginning with a vowel, added a &#8220;w&#8221; (pronounced &#8220;v&#8221;) in front. \u00a0Thus\u00a0<em>agni<\/em> or\u00a0<em>ogie\u0144<\/em>\u00a0becomes <em>w\u00fc<\/em><em>gin<\/em>. What is even more interesting, however, is that the pronunciation of this then became actually<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><em><strong>w\u00fcdjin<\/strong>.<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jassa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/hogins.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-12249 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jassa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/hogins.jpg?resize=625%2C134\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"134\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jassa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/hogins.jpg?w=1017&amp;ssl=1 1017w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jassa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/hogins.jpg?resize=300%2C64&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jassa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/hogins.jpg?resize=768%2C165&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jassa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/hogins.jpg?resize=624%2C134&amp;ssl=1 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Copyright \u00a92018 jassa.org All Rights Reserved<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are not that many mentions of Wodan in the continental Germanic literature. One of the more famous ones is the one from the Life of Columban by Jonas of Bobbio. The mention of the Slavs in that work was already discussed\u00a0here. But the same work talks of the Swabians and their worship of Wodan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-polabians"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jassa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jassa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jassa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jassa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jassa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jassa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12250,"href":"https:\/\/www.jassa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12247\/revisions\/12250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jassa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jassa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jassa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}