Wotans Throne is a 7,721-foot-elevation summit located in the Grand Canyon, in Coconino County, Arizona, US. It is situated one mile immediately southwest of the Cape Royal overlook on the canyon's No
Northeast aspect, from Cape Royal Overlook
At sunset from Cape Royal
Wotans Throne, with Angels Gate in front blending in
Odin is a widely revered god in Norse mythology and Germanic paganism. Most surviving information on Odin comes from Norse mythology, but he figures prominently in the recorded history of Northern Eur
Wotans Throne
…of Vishnu Temple, and five miles east of Zoroaster Temple. It rises 5,200 feet (1,600 meters) above the Colorado River. Wotans Throne is named for Wotan, the supreme Germanic deity. This toponym was applied by geologist François E. Matthes, in keeping with Clarence Dutton's practice of naming geographical…
Odin, in his guise as a wanderer, as imagined by Georg von Rosen (1886)
Woðinz (read from right to left), a probably authentic attestation of a pre-Viking Age form of Odin, on the Strängnäs stone
One of the Torslunda plates. The figure to the left was cast with both eyes, but afterwards the right eye was removed.
The name Wōđnas on a bracteate from the early 5th century AD, written as mirrored text