9 worlds? Mercury loki Venus Freyja Moon mani Mars tyr Jupiter thorr Saturn herimdallr Uranus odin Neptune njordr Pluto hel Earth jord Sun associated with mountains Moon associated with sacred sources (meadows, lakes, land) In The Sky: Odin’s Wagon Posted on May 3, 2013by Raven Awhile ago I came across a webpage that said that the Great Bear (Big Dipper)  constellation is also called Odin’s Wagon. Now, I don’t claim to know everything about Odin (matter of fact I’ll be the first to admit that I don’t!), but I had never heard anything about Him having a wagon of any sorts. I’d read about Him hanging on Yggdrasil to gain the Runes, Him riding Sleipnir to Hel and back, and also Him wandering around on foot with Loki and Honir. But I’d never read anything about Him having a wagon. So, I set out to figure out why the heck a constellation would be referred to as Odin’s Wagon. I have found reference to this constellation bearing the name Hellewagon, and being described as “wagon of the dead”. Given the fact that Helheim is the land of the dead in Norse mythology, it would make sense for a wagon with the name of Hellewagon to be a wagon of the dead. And if the wagon is a wagon of the dead then it makes sense for it to be Odin’s wagon. Odin has the ability to visit Hel and still return alive (via Sleipnir), and so it makes perfect sense to me that He would be a psychopomp–a ferryman of the dead. What better way to transport the dead than in a wagon? But when it comes to mythology, I have yet to come across any wagon that Odin owns. However, there is one thing that makes me think there might be one somewhere that I just haven’t heard about yet. When the creators of the Lord of the Rings movies, they based Gandalf in part on Odin. In the beginning of Fellowship of the Ring, Odin arrives in the Shire in a wagon. Now, I know this is just a movie, but this particular image keeps standing out to me. Call it a bit on a hunch that I see this as a clue to keep digging. Which I fully plan to do. In Scandinavian tradition it is known as Tor’s wagon, not Odin’s. Karl, or more commonTorakall/Torekall, is one of the regional names for Tor. “Kall” = dialect for “karl” = “man”. The most known name for the Great Bear is Karlsvogna (Norwegian) or Karlavagnen (Swedish).   The philosophical, medical and astronomical knowledge that we find in European peoples like the Celts and the Greeks also mirrors that of India such as we find in the Upanishads, Ayurvedic medicine and Vedic astrology. To the Vikings, the Pleiades were Freyja's hens,[11] and their name in many old European languages such as Hungarian compares them to a hen with chicks. Fred N. Brown (2007). Rediscovering Vinland : evidence of ancient Viking presence in America. New York: iUniverse. p. 128. ISBN 0595436803.