Odinic Vision

It has been accepted by many practitioners of Asatru, Heathenism, and Odinism that Odin, All Father of the Folk sacrificed his eye at some point in Mimir’s well. However, is it a more plausible thought that Odin did not sacrifice his eye but in fact gained vision through the opening of his “third” eye? Maybe this can help find something of a different view of Odinic Vision?

Voluspa is often one of the first quoted sources to support the idea that Odin sacrificed his eye into Mimir’s well. Consider closely the chosen language of the stanza as it is held over various translations:

“I know where Othin’s eye is hidden,
Deep in the wide-famed well of Mimir;
Mead from the pledge of Othin each morn
Does Mimir drink: would you know yet more?

Odin’s eye is hidden – not sacrificed “Deep in the wide-famed well of Mimir”? Mímir (Old Norse “The rememberer, the wise one”). We can interpret the symbolic nature of the Lore that Mimir’s Well is a representation of the mind! ... read more>>>...