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 (software) is run) or permanently. Odin does not use emulation or a compatibility layer. Odin identifies itself to Windows applications as Windows 2000 Service Pack 2. Odin uses code from Wine, which runs Win32 applications on Unix-like operating systems. The project is named after Odin, the supreme god of Germanic and Norse mythology. Odin (software) In computing, Odin is a project to run Microsoft Windows programs on OS/2 or convert them to OS/2 native format. It also provides the Odin32 API to compile Win32 (Windows API) programs for OS/2. The project's goals are: Although this is far from complete, much of