All-Father

English Alternative forms en Allfather Etymology en non Alfǫðr. Proper noun All-Father 1 The chief god of a pantheon. en Germanic paganism Norse mythology Odin. Noun all-father A supreme being; a god who rules over all others. en 1891 The All-father: Sermons Preached in a Village Church Philip Hankinson Newnham 27 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. en 1913 Encyclopædia of Religion and Ethics James Hastings; John Alexander Selbie 737 At a primitive stage this is sometimes (e.g. with the Australians) scarcely regarded as communion with a specific divinity or divinities, yet the All-Fathers and the mythical beings fill an important rôle in these rites, while at a more developed stage the rites have a close connexion with chthonic or heavenly powers. en 2010 The Separation of Heaven and Earth Harold W. Montzka The Arunta totemic system could not coexist with an All-Father. Anagrams en aaefhllrt earthfall en Divine epithets