BtZ42: Woutan rides high.

[rich]

http://franz_von_stuck.tripod.com/wild_chase.jpg

In 1889, the year of Adolf Hitler’s birth, Franz von Stuck painted “The
Wild Chase”, which depicts Wotan (major god of Germanic polytheism) on
horseback leading a procession of the dead. The painting has become
infamous for its disturbing resemblance to Hitler.

On Mon, May 30, 2016 at 11:19 AM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:

> i'm sure you're all familiar with Franz von Stuck's painting The Wild
> Chase. wotan and his mad army indeed
>
> On Mon, May 30, 2016 at 5:26 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Laura writes:
>> "They hunt the sky like Wuotan and his mad army." Wuotan and his wild
>> hunt signifying death to those who see it (a folkloric concept most
>> recently ripped off by Game of Thrones, in the form of the White Walkers).
>> After the obscurities of the Kenosha Kid, this is a little heavy-handed,
>> no?"
>>
>> I've always, again without fully examining, thought this might have come
>> from Wagner maybe thru Nietzsche. We seem to know P has read and used some
>> Nietzsche,* The Birth of Tragedy *at least.
>> But we also know from elsewhere that he does like the old Black Forest
>> Deep Germany of folk tales, etc. so he surely went there in his reading.
>>
>> I have no idea whether Woutan usages were more common when GR was
>> written, hence maybe a heavy-handed cliche and just accept it as a fanboy.
>> I have always felt it more fun to simply ingest and right on compared to
>> the obscurities of the Kenosha Kid section, a frustrating section without
>> real help and thought.
>>
>>
>> After writing the above, It occurred to check out book citations of
>> Woutan, Wotan in Google Books:
>> Another fascinating look at such things. Woutan was HUGE (because Wagner,
>> I'm sayin"?) in books over a hundred to 150 years ago THEN went down thru
>> and to the sixties---and had a rise again!
>>
>> https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Woutan%2C+Wotan&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2CWotan%3B%2Cc0
>>
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