Meaning of All-Father | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The chief god of a pantheon.
2. A supreme being; a god who rules over all others.
3. Odin.
   Germanic, Norse

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“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.”

“The Arunta totemic system could not coexist with an All-Father.”

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