I had read that it was Tyr who should have led the pantheon, with the explanation you give. But, by comparison with all the other pantheons, and the links with the planets, it should be Thor, as he is the one with the thunderbolts, and is related to Jupiter, as was spotted by those who determined the days of the week. Thursday = Jeudi, Jove's day. The planet is definitely the major one visible. Tyr was matched up in ancient times with Mars, though I agree that the name itself links with the deus root. His rune was, I believe, used on swords, so that would tend to suggest a war bias. The Norse/Germanic gods do seem to have had a lot of alteration.
One thing I read way back - don't remember the author - was the way in which both Odin and Freya were regarded as untrustworthy because of their involvement with evil magic, seidr, (that's by their own culture, not later Christians.) This fits with the two planets they represent, which each have a light, morning apparition, and a dark, evening apparition. Mercury in the west is the guide of the dead, in Odin's case with his eight legged horse the four coffin bearers.

In the case of Prometheus foreseeing what would happen if he took fire from the gods, according to one version, Zeus had withheld fire, which men had already had, and Prometheus could see what would happen to us with no fire, and was prepared to put his life on the line. I think it's Aeschylus' play on the subject which presents Zeus in a rather negative light on the subject. (I was quite pleased to find this, because I had done a version of Pandora with a similar attitude, thinking it original!. It is odd how some people seem to think that the ancient pantheons deserve the sort of unquestioning respect expected in the monotheist religions, when they didn't get it back then.)

I hadn't thought of Odin's eye as being a disability. How blind can one be?

Penny