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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Yaarel" data-source="post: 8730378" data-attributes="member: 58172">Correct. No Norse "worshiped" Odin. The Norse had a nontheistic animistic worldview.There were no "temples", there were no "priests", and people never prayed to Odin in times of need.Odin (Óðinn) is the sky itself, especially its cycle of seasons.There were certain human individuals, certain families, who felt a "friendship" with Odin. These individuals set up a small shrine in their own home. There, they can offer their friend some food, to thank him for the good weather they are currently enjoying. Maybe there is a timely spring to start planting crops.Additionally, the sky inspires various natural features in the sky to move in the season cycles that they do, such as sun an moon, planets, and stars, and patterns of weather. Sometimes the sky can inspire humans too. The sky can be a kind of muse, to help form a good idea for a new song, political strategy, even new insight during a mystical trance. A human can thank the sky for a being inspirational too.During the Viking Period, almost no one in Norway befriended Odin, considering its seasons too treacherous. Norwegians were, by far, more like to form friendships with the summer storms that kept the arctic threats away, namely Thor (Þórr). But in Denmark, humans are friendlier with Odin.It is an animistic world view. There is no polytheism. Not in Scandinavia, anyway.</blockquote>