tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4571055663184272276.post6155892416169650935..comments2023-07-09T07:45:50.552-07:00Comments on Socialism and/or barbarism: "I became ruler through treaties; By my treaties I am now enslaved."ECWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02142600295759704786noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4571055663184272276.post-34107750900497914912011-04-11T14:41:02.855-07:002011-04-11T14:41:02.855-07:00& "Satanism"? (= Wotan?) Hmm, didn&#...& "Satanism"? (= Wotan?) Hmm, didn't see that tag. You've got your religions crossed mate. Just call it Bourgeois Christianity. (& then mention Puritanism and Max Weber and I'm happy.)Lizhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15393426834303710243noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4571055663184272276.post-86207191656430925472011-04-11T14:30:28.218-07:002011-04-11T14:30:28.218-07:00..a bad day! But to see him as just one thing woul.....a bad day! But to see him as just one thing would be simplistic.<br /><br />Yeah. That was Theodor Adorno you were quoting? (Some of your posts could be longer.) Actually I think - why stick with comparisons between the 1930s German bourgeoisie and Wotan?? Why not go for the "strict father" god most people know best - God the Father in the Bible? He's sure to have had more influence on modern Germans than the guy with the feathery helmet!<br /><br />(All Father gods are depressingly similar, though. Really very wont to sacrifice their own sons.. then look for more scapegoats, to punish for that.. Loki knows.)Lizhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15393426834303710243noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4571055663184272276.post-44171558096263884532011-04-11T14:18:45.191-07:002011-04-11T14:18:45.191-07:00Yeah: thought I recognised that: Goetterdaemmerung...Yeah: thought I recognised that: Goetterdaemmerung, yeah? (Don't know it in English, only in German! Great pic, again - any source for it besides heathen website? Must be 19th/20th oil painting.)<br /><br />I knew it was Wotan, even before I scrolled down on my tiny screen: sounded like him. Still: he's not all bad, you know (though he does tend to lurk around like a ghost!) In Richard Wagner's conception he is a *noble* tragic figure, to rival any in Greek Tragedy - pray tell me in what way the guy you're comparing him to, Hitler, was in any way noble?!<br /><br />I believe it was actually C G Jung who started this "Hitler (or rather the German national spirit) as Wodan thing. See, Odin/Wuodan/Wotan is in one aspect, the Germanic god of rage, of passion & Dionysiac excess! (Wuodan ->(modern German) Wut = fury. See? But in his calmer moods he's god of knowledge and words. (Like Hermes and Thoth: these latter are his real cognates. Sigh. Don't you materialists know anything?) When you've got him in fury mode you have Allfather onLizhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15393426834303710243noreply@blogger.com