(Uotan) Originally, it would seem, a religious reformer among the Maya in Central America, who was subsequently deified. He was given the epithet ‘heart of towns’, and was supposed to be the guardian of the slit-drum (tepanaguaste). His...

Wōden was the name of Odin in Anglo-Saxon polytheism and he represents a later development of a Proto-Germanic deity, *Wōdanaz. Other West Germanic forms of the name include Dutch Wodan, West Frisian Weda Alemannic Wuodan, High German Wotan, and Low...