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Wotan Regrows His Oak

And: Where does religion come from?

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Rod Dreher
Nov 17, 2023
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Wotan Leading The Wild Hunt (Franz von Stuck, 1899)

Paul Kingsnorth suggested in yesterday’s comments taking a look at this 1936 essay of C.G. Jung’s, in which Jung interprets the Nazi movement as the god Wotan having returned and taken possession of Germany. Jung does not mean a literal god, but he doesn’t mean either a mere psychological construct. Nea…

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