![]() with a meaning somewhat similar to 'daemon' in ancient greek, though more extolled. the term god was used seperately to refer to all deities in pre-christian germanic europe. 'the barnhart concise dictionary of etymology', a very easily accessable volume which lately it seems is in every barns & noble location in the language section, gives the root of the word god as ultimately the proto-germanic "3udán" or "3óðin", the "3" being the germanic etymological character called 'Yogh', a gutteral Y sound, which when branching off into the later germanic languages changed variously into a 'i', 'g' or 'w' sound, or was lost. infact, in old norse the word "god" has several meanings, among which is 'battle', but it is infact the singular term of 'spiritual inspiration', and a shorted form of the head germanic god who was literally called 'definitive of spiritual inspiration' "god-in" or odin/woden. ![]() before which the word was connected with their native war gods. it only became associated with the christian and general religious attitude of whichever supreme being after early missionaries appropriated the word to explain the concept of their 'divinity' to the indigenous populations of northern europe. ![]() What does "god/gott" have to do with christianity for the most part anyway? it is a purely germanic word, and does not exist etymologically in any biblical context.
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