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All-Father

name

Etymology

Calque of Old Norse Alfǫðr.

  1. derived from Alfǫðr

Definitions

  1. The chief god of a pantheon.

  2. Odin.

  3. A supreme being

    A supreme being; a god who rules over all others.

    • 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.
    • The Arunta totemic system could not coexist with an All-Father.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA