Odin was one of the central gods in Norse mythology, and also one of the most complex. According to the World History Encyclopedia, he was not only a warrior god, but a god of poetry, magic, and the dead. Odin appears in traditional Germanic mythology under the name of Wuotan. These Germanic spellings give us the day of the week named after him: Wednesday.
To understand Odin, you need to understand the Norse conception of the universe. To the Norse people, the universe was made up of three strata of nine worlds, centered around and on an elemental ash tree known as Yggdrasil. These nine divine worlds are not to be conceived as a spatially defined extraterrestrial localities above or below the earth, although esoterically in terms of Armanism such images are used in symbolic language. What is actually being conveyed by this imagery are spiritual-fluidic circles, whose guides are the very spiritual entities we call gods, angels, saints, etc.; being Odin, the All-Father.
ℹ️ Odin had two special ravens, Hugin and Munin, whose names mean thought and memory respectively, two distinct non-material psychological components that human beings possesses and Egyptians believed that both could survive to death. According to the beliefs, both birds flew throughout the world gathering knowledge and information to return to the All-Father. The two psyches that humans are comprised of and the ancient Germanic religion.