All-Father

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English

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Etymology

From all +‎ father. The sense used to refer to Odin was a calque of Old Norse Alfǫðr.

Proper noun

the All-Father

  1. The chief god of a pantheon.
  2. (Germanic paganism, Norse mythology) Odin.

Noun

All-Father (plural All-Fathers)

  1. A supreme being; a god who rules over all others.
    • 1891, Philip Hankinson Newnham, The All-father: Sermons Preached in a Village Church, page 27:
      Our first lesson is that God is a Father ; the second, that He is an All-Father ; that His Fatherhood is a fact in which others, without any limit perceptible to us, have an equal share with ourselves.
    • 1913, James Hastings, John Alexander Selbie, Encyclopædia of Religion and Ethics, page 737:
      At a primitive stage this is sometimes (e.g. with the Australians) scarcely regarded as communion with a specific divinity or divinities, yet the All-Fathers and the mythical beings fill an important rôle in these rites, while at a more developed stage the rites have a close connexion with chthonic or heavenly powers.
    • 2010, Harold W. Montzka, The Separation of Heaven and Earth:
      The Arunta totemic system could not coexist with an All-Father.

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