Status Updates From The Ring of the Nibelung

“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.