Invocation Norse rites where Odin is invoked to "ride" workers of seidr (Norse shamanism), much like the god rides his eight-legged horse Sleipnir. Indeed, forms of possessive invocation appear throughout the world in most mystical or ecstatic traditions, wherever devotees seek to touch upon the essence of a deity or spirit. Some have performed invocation for the purpose of controlling or extracting favors from certain spirits or deities. These invocations usually involve a commandment or threat against the entity invoked. The following is a curious example of such an invocation, found engraved in cuneiform on a statue of the Assyrian demon
Odin religious practices associated with the god. This multitude of names makes Odin the god with the most names known among the Germanic peoples. The modern English weekday name "Wednesday" derives from Old English "wōdnesdæg". Cognate terms are found in other Germanic languages, such as Middle Low German "wōdensdach" (Dutch "woensdag"), and Old Norse "Óðinsdagr" (Danish, Norwegian and Swedish "Onsdag"). All of these terms derive from Proto-Germanic *"Wodensdag", itself a Germanic interpretation of Latin "Dies Mercurii" ("Day of Mercury"). In Old High German, the name derived from Odin's was replaced by a translation of Church Latin "media hebdomas" ('middle of the