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Thor vs Zeus

These two are identified with one another in the record, which is not the same as being the same figure. The same comparison drawn to the Greek instead of the Roman. Recorded by Wikidata (P460); not asserted by a text this corpus carries.

Deity · Norse · c. 1270 CE

Thor

also called Þórr, Donar, Ðunor, Thunor, Þunor

The defender who kills giants and will meet Jormungandr at Ragnarok. Whatever the poems give Odin, Thor was by far the more widely worshipped.

Alignment
Disputed
Rank
Thunderer
First attested
Gesta Hammaburgensis Ecclesiae Pontificum · c. 1075
Named there as
Thor
Texts naming it
4
Powers attributed
4
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Deity · Greek · c. 700 BCE

Zeus

also called Dias, Jove, Ζεύς

Sky-father and enforcer of oaths, whose name descends from the same Indo-European root as Jupiter and Dyaus.

Alignment
Disputed
Rank
King of the Gods
First attested
The Iliad · c. 750 BCE
Named there as
Zeus
Texts naming it
3
Powers attributed
4
90attestedGreek

Where do they actually overlap?

Texts naming both

None. The two never appear in the same text in this corpus, which is worth knowing before accepting any confident claim that they are one figure.

Powers credited to both

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Common questions

Are Thor and Zeus the same figure?

These two are identified with one another in the record, which is not the same as being the same figure. The same comparison drawn to the Greek instead of the Roman. Recorded by Wikidata (P460); not asserted by a text this corpus carries. ColossiansOne records the link rather than asserting the identity: where texts disagree about whether two names denote one figure, the disagreement is what gets shown.

Which is older, Thor or Zeus?

Zeus is the older name: first attested around c. 700 BCE, against c. 1270 CE for Thor. Where the two dates are far apart, that gap is the whole reason the pair is worth comparing.

Do any texts name both Thor and Zeus?

No text in this corpus names both. That is not proof they were considered the same figure, but it is why the identification has to be traced through the scholarship rather than read off a page.
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