Survive the Jive: All-feed dan repost
There is no reason to associate Óðinn with sexual deviations or a third gender. His ecstatic element relates only to war and not sexual ecstasy and the shamanic influence on the cult of Odin was limited only to the very northern most regin of the Germanic world. The widespread claim that Odin is queer because he dressed as a woman in order to deceive and then rape a woman makes no sense. Jens Peter-Schodt tackles such misinformation in this excellent essay:
"The problem I want to deal with is the interpretation of Óðinn as some kind of 'third gender' representative, or as some kind of 'queer figure'
As far as I can see both Solli and Price, and all other scholars who see Óðinn as having a dual sexuality, have not done sufficient textual analysis, and even if this cannot be done in all details here either, I should like to point to some of the weaknesses in this viewpoint, because it is rather important for the way we perceive Wotan/Óðinn as a Germanic and a Scandinavian god."
Jens Peter-Schjødt
Óðinn - The Pervert? Page 534
https://archive.org/details/res-artes-et-religio-essays-in-honour-of-rudolf-simek-kismet-press
"The problem I want to deal with is the interpretation of Óðinn as some kind of 'third gender' representative, or as some kind of 'queer figure'
As far as I can see both Solli and Price, and all other scholars who see Óðinn as having a dual sexuality, have not done sufficient textual analysis, and even if this cannot be done in all details here either, I should like to point to some of the weaknesses in this viewpoint, because it is rather important for the way we perceive Wotan/Óðinn as a Germanic and a Scandinavian god."
Jens Peter-Schjødt
Óðinn - The Pervert? Page 534
https://archive.org/details/res-artes-et-religio-essays-in-honour-of-rudolf-simek-kismet-press