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Since I love him;
I must refuse to help him; he stands or he falls unhelped by me:
gods rely only on heroes.

For men in their scorn would laugh at our might, jeer at the glorious gods, if today your warlike daughter should not revenge
all the wrongs of your wife!
The Wälsung dies for my honour!
Will Wotan now give me his oath?

“I feel a temptation to turn and destroy them; change to flickering fire, and burn those great ones who thought I was tamed, rather than blindly sink with the blind, although they're so gracious and god-like!”

From companion material Epiphany and Apocalypse:

Fade away in bliss before man's [deed]
before the hero whom, alas, [you created!]

Here, in the notion of the gods' deposition by man, was a theme that brought the action of the ideologically outmoded, neo-Hegelian Nibelung Legend into line with the most progressive thought of the day.