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The Masks of Odin: Wisdom of the Ancient Norse
This fresh translation and commentary on the principal lays of the Elder Edda decodes the tales of gods, heroes, elves, and dwarfs, yielding an overview of the cosmic cycles of life on the many levels of the World Tree.
316 pages, Hardcover
First published June 1, 1968
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November 4, 2019
This is a collection of mostly just passages from ancient Norse Mythology, much of which is hard to find and extensive. When she explains the meaning to one thing she always uses quotes from some other Norse Mythology on that to confirm her meaning; whether it be symbol, event or being. This is something all good and respectful Theosophists such as she have so learned from the best to do (Lady Hahn).
She somehow has the ancient epochs etched in her understanding from all I have studied on them, no innacuracies anywhere. From that point then, all they need is quoting, explication and clarification for seeing all the scattered motifs and lore in their correct order as to which lost periods they speak of, in order to unravel it all.
Through this, like Hesiod and Ovid, one discovers what Tolkien calls the “vast vista’s within the vale’s” of long forgotten endless lore. One begins uncovering the massive body of lore on forgotten ages long before the “stone age” (sic) of man and even before the last bottleneck of the many species of sapien down to just our form around 28K BC per modern science.
One day modern consciousness will catch up and see all myth was there to preserve the order, beings and events of such ages going back many hundreds of thousands if not millions of years - as Cremo, Hahn, myself, Tolkien, Maya, Hinduism, Indian (Tsulaghi) and hundreds of other detailed tradtions attest to.
Till then this captures some of the older periods in Norse Mythology.
She somehow has the ancient epochs etched in her understanding from all I have studied on them, no innacuracies anywhere. From that point then, all they need is quoting, explication and clarification for seeing all the scattered motifs and lore in their correct order as to which lost periods they speak of, in order to unravel it all.
Through this, like Hesiod and Ovid, one discovers what Tolkien calls the “vast vista’s within the vale’s” of long forgotten endless lore. One begins uncovering the massive body of lore on forgotten ages long before the “stone age” (sic) of man and even before the last bottleneck of the many species of sapien down to just our form around 28K BC per modern science.
One day modern consciousness will catch up and see all myth was there to preserve the order, beings and events of such ages going back many hundreds of thousands if not millions of years - as Cremo, Hahn, myself, Tolkien, Maya, Hinduism, Indian (Tsulaghi) and hundreds of other detailed tradtions attest to.
Till then this captures some of the older periods in Norse Mythology.
January 2, 2014
It was a hard read,
Agonizingly so at times,
although some of the translations of the 'Poetic E?dda' were good, Is it the beliefs of our forebears, Probably not, Still some interesting points of view
Agonizingly so at times,
although some of the translations of the 'Poetic E?dda' were good, Is it the beliefs of our forebears, Probably not, Still some interesting points of view
January 26, 2008
Translation of from the Eddas, with the first nine chapters being the author's insights into the ancient Norse worldview and symbolism, and the universal philosphical principles embodied in them.
April 25, 2009
Kinda dry to being with, but there are some decent translations of the eddas and the havamal in the back. and if i recall some interesting theory on how things were interpreted they way they were.
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June 24, 2020love it very good book
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