It seems to me clear that Thor was not a god at all but a hero.
Nothing resembling a religion would picture anybodying resembling a god as groping like a pigmy in a great cavern, that turned out to be the glove of a giant.
That is the glorious ignorance called adventure.
Thor may have been a great adventurer; but to call him a god is like trying to compare Jehovah with Jack and the Beanstalk.
G.K. Chesterton, in The Everlasting Man (1925), Ch. 5
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