Odin : Norsemen’s name of the chief Germanic god Wotan: host of dead heroes & patron of poetry; though also the god of war he was less interested it than his son Thor.
... put their growth Upon his chin! If not of Odin's race, Odin is for him. Are you not afraid, You who see Fate even in a sparrow's flight, When Odin is for him? ASLAUG Aslaug is against. He has a strength, an iron strength, and Thor Strikes hammerlike in his uplifted sword. But Fate alone decides when all is said, Not Thor, nor Odin. I will try my fate. HERTHA He is a pure usurper... transitory cloud Becomes the thing it was, cleft, parcelled out By discord. I have found the way to join, The warrior's sword, builder of unity, But where's the way to solder? where? O Thor And Odin, masters of the northern world, Wisdom and force I have; some strength is hidden I have not; I would find it out. Help me, Whatever power thou art who mov'st the world, To Eric unrevealed. Some... thou? ASLAUG What thou knowest. ERIC Do I know? ASLAUG ( to herself ) Does he suspect? ( aloud ) I am a dancing-girl. My name is Aslaug. That thou knowest. ERIC Where Did Odin forge thy sweet imperious eyes, Thy noble stature and thy lofty look? Thou dancest,—yes, thou hast that motion; song, The natural expression of thy soul, Comes from thy lips, floats, hovers and ...
... solder? where? O Thor And Odin, masters of the northern world, Wisdom and force I have; one strength's behind I have not... 53 As if in answer to his question he hears the song: Love is the hoop of the gods Hearts to combine. Iron is broken, the sword Sleeps in the grave of its lord; Love is divine. 54 Odin and Thor, certainly; yet without... mistress of her own heart, For Eric's words when they had met earlier - Where Did Odin forge thy sweet imperious eyes, Thy noble stature and thy lofty look? 60 took her aback, she was y shaken, and divided within. Later after yet another meeting she had to confess laughingly: "Odin and Freya, you have snares " 61 Things move swiftly with Eric and Aslaug, they play cat... implied throughout that the gods are involved in the earth-drama. Albeit he is the darling of Odin and Thor yet peace eludes Eric, there is an emptiness in his heart, and he is frank enough to confess: "Freya, Mother of Heaven, Thou wast forgotten."68 Aslaug too, who comes to Eric's Court with the fire of Odin in her eyes, suddenly feels the sovereignty of Freya and the spirit of compassion, love and ...
... in their dreams and impelled them to spend their energy, blindly, for the great Cause assigned to them by the charismatic Führer, that “Being of Light”. For these young men Wotan, whom others called Odin, was present again – he, the one-eyed god with the green hat, who leads the wild hunt of dead riders seen in times of upheaval, when storms are wailing or the moon makes the nights ominous. “Wotan” ...
... 127 Nyaya,338 Neo-Realists,317 New Testament, the, 214, 244 Newton, 301, 308, 356 Nietzsche, 16, 18-19,21-24, 130,261, 272, 358 Nineveh, 91 ODIN, 201 Old Testament, the, 214, 244 Olympus, 201, 234 Osiris, 220 PACIFIC, the, 209 Paracelsus, 150 Paris, 373 Parthenon, 136 Patanjali ...
... Thou valiant heart. 6 As regards Sri Aurobindo's plays, they too are unmistakably dyed with purpose. Eric is Norway's unifier, but he sees the wisdom of balancing the claims of Thor and Odin with those of Freya - in other words, of Power and Love. Bappa the Prince of Edur is both liberator and redeemer, and regains his Kingdom as well as wins a bride in Kamal Kumari. In the maturer play ...
... is therefore inappropriate. Each sign has a devata , a god or spiritual being in charge of it. He is not its master, but its protector and the protector of all who are born in the sign. Indra (Zeus, Odin) protects the Ram, Agni (Moloch, Thor) the Bull, the Aswins (Castor & Pollux) the Twins, Upendra (Baal) the Crab, Varuna (Poseidon) the Lion, Aditi, called also Savitri or Sita (Astarte, Aphrodite) ...
... root of the German error lies in its mistaking life and the body for the self. It has been said that this gospel Page 53 is simply a reversion to the ancient barbarism of the religion of Odin; but this is not the truth. It is a new and a modern gospel born of the application of a metaphysical logic to the conclusions of materialistic Science, of a philosophic subjectivism to the objective ...
... into two separate orders, one under Philipp Stauff, who had been a personal disciple of Guido von List, the other under Hermann Pohl. Pohl called his fiefdom “Germanenorden-Walvater” after Wotan (or Odin), “the Nordic All-Father or Walvater who determines the heroic death of the humans on the Walstatt , the battle field”. 46 And it is here that we meet another of the main personages in our tale: Rudolf ...
... of the higher gods of Olympus: these have been ousted and dethroned. We are being led back to the mysteries of an earlier race, reverting to an infra-evolutionary status, into the arcana of Thor and Odin, godlings of an elemental Nature. In such a world Tagore is a voice and a beacon from over the heights of the old world declaring and revealing the verities that are eternal and never die. They ...
... Exactly so. Disciple : And he is talking of reviving worship of the old Norse Gods. Sri Aurobindo : Yes, they are crude conceptions of the primitive instinct of mankind. Even though Odin is considered a God of knowledge it is more or less primary instincts that are symbolized. Disciple : Do these beings know the existence of the Divine and deny it? or are they ignorant about ...
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