ODIN

Well, my loyal readers, I have searched and searched until I am "blue in the face" but I can not tell you where yesterday's picture was taken.

But I can tell you a little.

The subway (who knows where?) rider is posing as the Norse god Odin, or All Fathers.

And, by the way, that is NOT a crow on his shoulder.

It is a raven.

Let me explain the difference.

Crows avoid humanity and hide in the cornfields.

Ravens are very social as they come in to raid our dumpsters.

Ergo, that has to be a tamed raven on the Odin-posing man's shoulder.

Now to get back to the facts.

Or folk fiction as we know it.

Odin is the god of wisdom, knowledge, air, poetry, death, healing, royalty, divination, gallows, frenzy, magic and runic alphabet in Norse mythology

Thanks to Wikipedia for that information.

This is what he supposedly looks like.

You will note the spear and a couple of ravens (the real Odin was price-ier, apparently) but no eye-patch though he was known to have only one eye.

He is known as All-Fathers, because he is said to be the father to all of the other Norse gods.

And Wednesday is his Big Day because it is named after him: Odin's Day = Wednesday.

You have to say it out loud to get it.

The only thing I can't figure out is why he was riding the subway and where.

Anybody else out there with an investigative mind and time to spare?

Go for it!