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Tag: Der Ring des Nibelungen

  • July 2, 2021 Robert Hampton 7 comments Print

    Wagner for the Folkish

    You can buy Collin Cleary’s Wagner’s Ring & the Germanic Tradition here.

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    Collin Cleary
    Wagner’s Ring and the Germanic Tradition
    Wagnerphile Books, 2021

    Richard Wagner is a cornerstone of Western culture. He is one of the few composers that still receive mainstream attention in the 21st century, but usually for negative reasons. Hacks can’t resist the temptation to bash him for his alleged proto-Nazism and anti-Semitism. Even if critics see him as a predecessor to Hitler, many of them still enjoy his music. Few doubt he was a great musician. (more…)

  • April 28, 2021 Collin Cleary 1 comment Print

    An Esoteric Commentary on the Volsung Saga, Part XIII

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    All installments of this series available here

    It has been some time since I have published an installment in this series (the last, in fact, was in November 2019). After more than a year of research and reflection, I am ready to return to the story of Sigurd, Fafnir’s Bane. (more…)

  • November 18, 2019 Collin Cleary 1 comment Print

    An Esoteric Commentary on the Volsung Saga, Part XII:
    Sigurd’s First Initiation into Runelore

    Sigurd and the dwarf Regin forge a sword, from the portal of the stave church of Hylestad, Setesdal, Norway c. 1200.

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    Part I here, Part XI here

    In our last installment, we saw how Queen Hjordis, pregnant with Sigurd, is taken in by King Alf, son of King Hjalprek of Denmark. Before his death, Sigmund had prophesied that his son “will become the greatest and most famous of our family.” Sigmund also entrusts to Hjordis the fragments of his sword, broken by Odin. “Take good care also of my sword’s fragments,” Sigmund tells her. “A good sword can be made from them, which will be called Gram, and our son will carry that sword and do many great things with it which will never be forgotten. (more…)

  • January 23, 2019 Quintilian 4 comments Print

    Masterpieces of Aryan Music 1
    Richard Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen

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    Richard Wagner (1813-1883) was the most influential composer of the nineteenth century and one of the most influential composers in the history of Western art music. (more…)

  • August 7, 2018 Collin Cleary 8 comments Print

    An Esoteric Commentary on the Volsung Saga, Part I

    A carving depicting Sigurd sucking the dragon’s blood off his thumb, from a stave church in Setesdal, Norway.

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    Part II here

    The purpose of this essay is to offer an account of the hidden meaning of the Volsung Saga (Völsunga saga). In drawing out this meaning, I will approach the saga from a Traditionalist standpoint, broadly speaking; i.e., from the standpoint of Guénon and Evola. I will touch on some details concerning the relation of the saga to other sources, but I do not aim to provide anything like the sort of account a historian or philologist might give. (more…)

  • August 3, 2018 John Morgan 12 comments Print

    I Saw the World End:
    Wagner’s Ring in Munich

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    Seeing an opera production these days, if you’re anything even approximating a small-t traditionalist, is always a risky business. When the guardians of Western culture – who actually hate Western culture, or at least what it was until recently – want to change literature, painting, television, or film to suit whatever agenda they’re pursuing at the time, it’s a relatively simple matter: they simply create new works in new styles. (more…)

  • July 9, 2013 Collin Cleary 5 comments Print

    Wagner Bicentennial Symposium  
    Wagner’s Place in the Germanic Tradition
    Part 8: Gelassenheit

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    Gelassenheit

    We can say that the plot of the Ring is simply this: Western man, in the person of Wotan, finally awakens to the destructiveness of his thumotic nature, and wills his own end. (See my review of Duchesne’s Uniqueness of Western Civilization for a discussion of how Western man is preeminently thumotic man.) (more…)

  • July 8, 2013 Collin Cleary Print

    Wagner Bicentennial Symposium  
    Wagner’s Place in the Germanic Tradition
    Part 7: Siegfried & Götterdämerung

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    Siegfried

    If Wotan is the main character of the Ring, Siegfried is its hero. However, in dealing with the character of Siegfried we do not depart from our discussion of Wotan at all. This is because Siegfried, like many of the other characters in the Ring, is a kind of hypostatization of an aspect of Wotan himself.  (more…)

  • July 5, 2013 Collin Cleary 1 comment Print

    Wagner Bicentennial Symposium  
    Wagner’s Place in the Germanic Tradition
    Part 6: Das Rheingold & Die Walküre

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    Das Rheingold

    When the events of Das Rheingold begin, the Wotan-Loge relationship is already well-established, and the primeval crimes described earlier are long past. However, the opera begins with yet another crime against nature: Alberich’s theft of the Rhinegold. (more…)

  • July 4, 2013 Collin Cleary Print

    Wagner Bicentennial Symposium  
    Wagner’s Place in the Germanic Tradition
    Part 5: The One-Eyed God

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    The story of the Ring involves four ages, similar to those taught in Tradition.

    The Age of Titans is the period represented by figures somehow more primordial than the gods: Erda, the Norns, and possibly the Rhine daughters. Events in this age are not depicted in the Ring; they are merely referred to (primarily in Götterdämmerung).

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  • July 3, 2013 Collin Cleary Print

    Wagner Bicentennial Symposium  
    Wagner’s Place in the Germanic Tradition
    Part 4: Wotan & the Faustian West

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    Part 4 of 8

    Wotan and the Faustian West

    As noted in the Introduction to this essay, at the time of the Ring’s conception Wagner was an anarchist revolutionary. Major influences on his thinking included Bakunin, Feuerbach, Hegel, and possibly Marx (though of these only Bakunin was an anarchist). (more…)

  • June 4, 2013 Collin Cleary 1 comment Print

    Wagner Bicentennial Symposium  
    Wagner’s Place in the Germanic Tradition
    Part 3: Wagner’s Use of Source Materials for the Ring

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    Wagner’s Use of Sources for the Ring

    As a brief summary of how Wagner makes use of the major sources discussed in section three above, I don’t think one could do any better than this paragraph from an article by Elizabeth Magee:

    Looking back, we can see how the Eddas supplied most of Das Rheingold, (more…)

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