This early 1900s illustration shows Woden. The caption: Woden was the chief god of the ancient Germans. This ideal statue-figure represents the mighty god seated on his throne. His head is bowed in gloomy reverie, his one seeing eye sternly fixed, his hands clinched. He seems thinking of the great battle which he must some day fight against all tyhe forces of evil. This battle will end the world and in it Woden himself is doomed to die. Above the god perch his watchful messengers, the two ravens, Thought and Memory. Below is a symbolic carving of the universe, the tree of life, with the Norns,
This early 1900s illustration shows Woden. The caption: Woden was the chief god of the ancient Germans. This ideal statue-figure represents the mighty god seated on his throne. His head is bowed in gloomy reverie, his one seeing eye sternly fixed, his hands clinched. He seems thinking of the great battle which he must some day fight against all tyhe forces of evil. This battle will end the world and in it Woden himself is doomed to die. Above the god perch his watchful messengers, the two ravens, Thought and Memory. Below is a symbolic carving of the universe, the tree of life, with the Norns, or Fates, beneath it and the Midgard-serpent circling it.
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