Tag: Odin

Franz von Stuck, The Wild Hunt, 1899

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In the denazification atmosphere following World War II Carl Jung, founder of analytical psychology, found himself accused of having ‘Nazi’ sympathies. While Jung was a man of the ‘Right’[1] his essay explaining Hitlerism as an evocation of Wotan as a repressed archetype of the German collective unconscious put him on the long suspect list of intellectuals who were accused of being apologists for National Socialism.[2] He was fortunate to have been in a neutral nation in the aftermath of World War II.

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La Pierre d’Odin, Gotland, Suède

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Survol de l’anthropologie germanique

Qu’est-ce que la nature humaine ? C’est peut-être bien la plus importante question philosophique, parce que la philosophie elle-même est singulièrement humaine, et que les « problèmes » philosophiques se présentent seulement aux êtres humains. Tous les grands philosophes ont des réponses explicites ou implicites à cette question.  (more…)

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«С тех пор как хожу средь людей, немало имен у меня» [1]
«С тех пор как я в землях людских, неизвестен я под единственным именем» (дословный перевод оригинальной цитаты)

Речи Гримнира, Старшая Эдда

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Odin Stone, Gotland, Sweden

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Dr. Collin Cleary tolkar här den germanska skapelseberättelsen (antropogenin) ur ett filosofiskt perspektiv. Vad säger Eddornas berättelser om hur Oden och hans bröder skapade människorna i Midgård utav två träd – Ask och Embla – om oss nordeuropéer, vår mänskliga natur, vår strävan och vår nuvarande situation? (more…)

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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…)

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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…)

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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…)

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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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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…)

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Ludwig Fahrenkrog, « La chasse sauvage »

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Dans le premier volume de TYR, j’ai examinés quelques aspects du rôle de Woden dans le panthéon germanique. Dans le présent article je souhaite examiner non tant ce qu’est Woden, mais plutôt comment il apparut [1].

C’est un truisme de dire que la nature d’une divinité est un reflet des espoirs et des craintes de ses adorateurs. (more…)

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Dans la mythologie nordique telle qu’elle nous a été transmise dans les travaux de Snorri Sturluson et les vers sur lesquels il basait ses récits, le dieu suprême de la religion scandinave préchrétienne était Odhinn – chef des dieux, père du clan des Aesir. (more…)