Andre’s Reviews > Odin: Der dunkle Gott und seine Geschichte > Status Update

What? Done already? And where was the stuff to Odin as a queer figure that he mentioned before and claimed to talk about? Why only talk about mostly dangerous neopaganism and their idiotic christian hatred (but not the similar about progressives) and only shortly how some references to Odin are not a problem?

After all this information about Odin stuff, real and fake, among völkisch academics and racists, it is suprising that Hitler himself had no interest in it any further than the Wagner opera and it is due to his anti-academic feelings.

His criticism of Grimm and his Deutsche Mythologie sounds exactly like mine when I see people drawing the wildest connection to the norse gods.

Oh, so this obsession with Odin and the Norse was primarily in the more educated strata of society. That would explain why the norse gods were such a big thing among authors but not among the folktales that I have seen so far, there they are incredibly rare. Even the fake Ostara was more present.

Now the Edda and norse mythology is equated with celtic culture. Oh boy, I am not surprised but I did not expect it either.

So Faroese ballads showed Odin rather as a demon. That fits.

Oh boy, first this hype for India as the origin of all civilization and now equating Odin somehow with Buddha... well... not THAT surprising to be honest.

And connecting Atlantis with Scandinavia etc? Hm, that would explain a few things later during Nazi times.

Odin as attractive? That change was not something I expected to see, even in christian times. I wonder whether that is due to the desire to connect Odin with some mythical forefathers that he describes here.

How does he know that this bavarian "Waudlgaul" has anything to do with Wodan/Odin? It is pretty far removed from the norse or the continental germanics. Wouldn't it be more likely, like he points out in another example, that what some literati wrote filtered down to the masses? And sure as hell, as he points out, none of this can be used to "reconstruct" the pre-christian believes.