Summary: Thor is the Norse God of thunder, war, and rain.

• names
• basic information
• relations
• magick
• candle color
• myths
• holy days
• priests/priestesses

names:

    Norse names: Thor, Asa-Thor, Aka-Thor

    Scandinavian names: Thor

     Anglo-Saxon name: Thunor [thunder]

    (NOTE: In addition to native variations by locality or over time, there are often several possible transliterations into the Roman alphabet used for English.)

basic information:

    Thor: Norse God of thunder and war. Bringer of rain to crops.

    The English word “Thursday” is derived from this God’s name.

Thor’s relations:

    Son of Odin.

    Associated with the Scandinavian God Thor.

    A member of the Aesir.

magickal information and correspondences:

    Sacred candle color: red

    Divination: Thor is related to ceraunoscopy (divination of thunder and lightning) and brontoscopy (divination of thunder).

myths and beliefs:

    Thor destroyed the giants, the foes of the deities, with a magic hammer made by the dwarves.

holy days

    Thursday: Thursday is named for Thor.

other:

from “The Handbook of Norse Mythology”:
by Karl Mortensen, 1898 (“Nordisk mythologi”), original Danish
translated into English 1913 by A. Clinton Crowell

    5. THOR is foremost among the other Aesir [after Odin]: he is called Asa-Thor and Aka-Thor, and is the strngest of all gods and men. His kingdom is called Thruthheim or Thruthvangar, but his abode is called bilskirnir. In the hall there are five hundred and forty rooms, and it is the largest house that was ever built. Thor has two goats; when he drives, they draw his wagon, and he is called Aka-Thor. He has besides three wonderful treasures: one is the hammer Mjolnir, which the frost giants and mountain giants recognize when he comes — and that is not so strange, either, for it has crushed many a skull of their fathers and kinsmen; next the strehngth-girdle — when he puts it about him, his godlike strength grows twofold; finally, the iron mittens from grasping the hammershaft. No one is so well versed in knowledge of the past that he can recount all of Thor’s mighty deeds.

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