Hmm. 'go back to their roots'? In the city parks are there bogs for human sacrifice? We need to separate German Romantic Nature Esteem from the worship of forces of nature. They are different phenomenon, separated by considerable passage of time. --
MichaelTinkler
"In the city parks are there bogs for human sacrifice? "
Don't give them ideas! <g> -
clasqm
please explain (with sources): "In 1900 the concept of Woden was still current in Mecklenburg." By 1900, of course, the folklore movement was strong in Germany and anyone who hadn't heard of Woden already would have been able to read about him. Do you mean that illiterate peasants were still making offerings? Was it at the level of 'superstition' (that is, like avoiding 13 or halloween in most of America) or was it something more substantial? I edited out 'Rage' from the first description because it's irrelevant. I'm not at all sure that any modern German etymology is relevant - old Germanic, yes. --
MichaelTinkler
I tinkered with this page to try and get it to sound remotely like English like what it is spoke ;-). However, I gave up. I would dearly love to crosslink an article on Wotan (and Woden too) with Odin, but frankly this is b*ll*cks, and would devalue the work Anders put in on it. Frankly this just needs to be gutted and reworked. Just my 2 groats worth. sjc
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