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Tag: Wotan

  • February 17, 2020 John Morgan 4
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    Richard Rudgley’s The Return of Odin

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    Richard Rudgley
    The Return of Odin: The Modern Renaissance of Pagan Imagination
    Rochester, Vt.: Inner Traditions, 2018

    Richard Rudgley is a British author who has published several books offering unconventional interpretations of the ancient and prehistorical eras of Northern European history, as well as works on psychedelics. (more…)

  • July 25, 2019 Collin Cleary
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    An Esoteric Commentary on the Volsung Saga, Part X:
    The Deaths of Sinfjotli & Sigmund

    2,519 words

    Part I here, Part IX here, Part XI here

    Chapter 10. The Death of Sinfjotli

    In our last two installments, we explored the fascinating digression – the “saga within the saga” – that is the story of Helgi. (more…)

  • May 27, 2019 Collin Cleary
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    Helgi: The Return of the Dead
    An Esoteric Commentary on the Volsung Saga, Part IX

    Ernest Wallcousins, Helgi Returns to Valhalla

    5,344 words

    Part I here, Part VIII here, Part X here

    In our last installment, we explored the career of the legendary Norse hero Helgi. Chapter Nine of the Volsung Saga is devoted to Helgi, and it constitutes a rich and entertaining digression from the main story. At one time, Helgi must have been a very important hero. The anonymous author of the Volsung Saga draws on two poems concerning Helgi compiled in the Poetic Edda: Helgakvitha Hundingsbana I (The First Poem of Helgi, Killer of Hunding; henceforth HH I), and Helgakvitha Hundingsbana II (or HH II). (more…)

  • May 15, 2019 Collin Cleary 2
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    Helgi: The Saga Within the Saga
    An Esoteric Commentary on the Volsung Saga, Part VIII

    Arthur Rackham, The Valkyrie

    3,502 words

    Part I here, Part VII here, Part IX here

    In our last installment, we saw Sigmund and Sinfjotli (the product of Sigmund’s incestuous union with his sister, Signy) return to the ancestral lands of the Volsungs. Many years have passed since the entire clan left there, and, in the meantime, a pretender has claimed the Volsung kingdom. But Sigmund and Sinfjotli drive him out, and Sigmund becomes a great and powerful king, “both wise and well-advised.”[1] He decides to marry a woman named Borghild, and they have two sons together, Helgi and Hamund.

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  • February 8, 2019 Collin Cleary 5
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    An Esoteric Commentary on the Volsung Saga, Part VII

    2,900 words

    Part I here, Part VIII here

    Chapter 8. The Vengeance of the Volsungs, Continued

    In the last installment of this series, we learned of the life Sigmund leads in the forest with his son Sinfjotli – the product of Sigmund’s incestuous union with his sister, Signy. (more…)

  • December 10, 2018 Collin Cleary 3
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    An Esoteric Commentary on the Volsung Saga, Part VI

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    Part I here, Part II here, Part III here, Part IV here, Part V here, Part VII here

    Chapter 8. The Vengeance of the Volsungs

    In the last installment of this series, we told of the birth of the hero Sinfjotli, product of the incest of the twins Sigmund and Signy. (more…)

  • November 5, 2018 Collin Cleary 8
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    An Esoteric Commentary on the Volsung Saga, Part V

    Sigmund & the wolf.

    2,559 words

    Part I here, Part II here, Part III here, Part IV here, Part VI here

    In our last installment, we saw that after Sigmund pulls the sword from the tree Barnstokk, Siggeir (who has just married Sigmund’s sister, Signy) offers to buy it from him. When Sigmund refuses, Siggeir immediately begins plotting revenge. On a pretext, he takes Signy and leaves the wedding feast early, inviting Volsung and his ten sons to visit him in Götaland. (more…)

  • October 9, 2018 Collin Cleary 5
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    An Esoteric Commentary on the Volsung Saga, Part IV

    Willy Pogany, Sigmund & the Wolf (1920)

    3,220 words

    Part I here, Part II here, Part III here, Part V here

    In our last installment, we saw how King Volsung marries his daughter Signy off to the loathsome King Siggeir of Götaland, a man she “was not eager to marry.” (more…)

  • September 14, 2018 Collin Cleary 2
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    An Esoteric Commentary on the Volsung Saga, Part III

    Siegmund the Walsung, Arthur Rackham, 1910.

    1,890 words

    Part I here, Part II here, Part IV here

    Chapter 3. The Marriage of Siggeir to Signy, Volsung’s Daughter

    In our last installment, we met Volsung (“stallion phallus”), who becomes a great King and sires eleven children: the twin brother and sister Sigmund and Signy, and nine brothers (who go unnamed). Volsung builds a “magnificent hall” around an immense apple tree whose branches weave about the beams of the roof. (more…)

  • August 13, 2018 Collin Cleary 2
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    An Esoteric Commentary on the Volsung Saga, Part II

    Arthur Rackham, Siegfried’s Death (1924), from his illustrations for Wagner’s Ring

    3,283 words

    Part I here, Part III here

    Chapter 2. Concerning Rerir and His Son Volsung

    In the previous chapter, we saw that Sigi, the son of Odin, is the first step in the god’s master plan: the creation of a new race of super-warriors, who will come to be known as the clan of the Volsungs. In order to become a truly great warrior, Sigi must transgress man’s laws and remove himself from society – entering the wilderness where he will live as his own master and create a world of his own. (more…)

  • August 7, 2018 Collin Cleary 8
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    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…)

  • December 17, 2015 Kerry Bolton 12
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    Wotan as Archetype:
    The Carl Jung Essay

    Franz von Stuck, "The Wild Hunt"

    Franz von Stuck, The Wild Hunt, 1899

    9,822 words

    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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  • July 9, 2013 Collin Cleary 5
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    Wagner Bicentennial Symposium  
    Wagner’s Place in the Germanic Tradition
    Part 8: Gelassenheit

    brunnhildesimmolation2,275 words

    Part 8 of 8

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

    siegfriedandrhinemaidens3,645 words

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

    Arthur Rackam - Die Gotterdammerung__sqs2,707 words

    Part 6 of 8

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

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    Part 5 of 8

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

    WagnerFestage2,783 words

    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…)

  • October 27, 2010 Miguel Serrano 8
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    Hitler & Jung

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    Translated by Alex Kurtagic

    C. G. Jung Speaking, by Professor William McGuire, has recently been translated into Spanish and published by Trotta, with the title Encuentros con Jung. Reproduced there is Jung’s account of the time he saw Hitler and Mussolini, together, addressing a mass audience.

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