I'll give it a shot!
1. Tuesday and Wednesday? Tyr missing one hand and Odin/Woden missing an eye.
2. Janus for January being a conjoined twin, possibly? Or August for Augustus, who was deified and had various impairments by the end of his life.
3. I'd go with a guess for Odin or another Norse God like Tyr again (Or their Anglo-Saxon equivalents).
4. Smiths! Examples being Hephaestus/Vulcan from Greco-Roman myths, Wayland from the Germanic tradition, Ptah from Egypt and Kothar-Wa-Katis from Ugarit.
Will Southwell-Wright
PhD Candidate
Department of Archaeology, Durham University
> On 24 Sep 2013, at 22:07, "Keith Armstrong" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> In ancient times gods with physical impairments were worshipped for many hundreds of years.
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> Q 1) Name two days of the week named after ods with physical impairments.
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> Q 2) What month of the year is named after a god with a physical impairment?
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> Q 3) Which god with a physical impairment was worshipped in England for more than 300 years?
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> Q 4a) What is the major profession of gods with impairments?
> 4b) Name four of them.
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