Question: Odin associated with Athena?

[Riverwolf]

I seem to remember that Puhvel in his Comparative mythology claimed an old Indo-European god showed up as Odin, Apollo, and Rudra (the Vedic precursor of Śiva).

Curing and causing (with arrows) disease: Apollo and Rudra.
Wearing a hat: Rudra and Odin.
Non-standard number of eyes: Rudra and Odin.
Prophecy: Apollo and Odin.
Mice or rats (or moles?): all three.

At the same time, I'm not sure of a Proto-Indo-European God has been reconstructed from these three figures. I think part of the problem is that, unlike other PIE Gods, the names we call them now probably started as bynames or titles, rather than something we can use linguistic reconstruction to point to.

 

[GoodbyeDave]

At the same time, I'm not sure of a Proto-Indo-European God has been reconstructed from these three figures. I think part of the problem is that, unlike other PIE Gods, the names we call them now probably started as bynames or titles, rather than something we can use linguistic reconstruction to point to.

I'm not sure either! Gods are too complex to be captured by the theorising of scholars. As for names, some are obvious — Zeus, Odin — but many are mysterious. Apollo may be Indo-European, but that name certainly isn't.

 

[syo]

Hello. Why would someone associate these two Deities?