Meanings
- alternativeAlternative form of All-Father.
Allfather, the father of gods and men, the one God, is the one who, like the Hellenic Zeus, orders destiny according to his everlasting laws.
1878, Wilhelm Zimmermann, A Popular History of Germany
plural Allfathers
- alternativeAlternative form of All-Father.
We shall keep our God, but he will be an Allfather, and not an all-but-All-tormentor.
1882, John Torrey Morse (Jr.), Henry Cabot Lodge, Robert Percival Porter, The International Review - Volume 12, page 5742 more examples
The suggestion of a belief in an Allfather has however been challenged with much force by Mr. Hartland,” but has been adopted by Mrs. Parker in her work on the Euahlayi tribe.
1907, Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of LondonThe Indo-European belief in an 'Allfather' may have inspired the Christian concept of 'Our Father in Heaven'.
1985, Roger Pearson, Anthropological Glossary, page 7
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