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2 thoughts on “11.0: January 03 -04, Eleventh Night, November 2021: Odin’s Animals”
Christine
And Night 10 cont.:
FASCINATING: “Ravens eat dead animals and are a symbol for the transition. Digesting this transition always comes with the blues, depression. That is what you experience in a loss. The loss of a partner, sister, job, imagined future… If you stay in the blues forever you are drowning in the Well of Memory. Thinking about all you lost and all that went wrong. Reliving your trauma’s from day to day just to make sure you don’t get hurt again.”
AND: “Why does Odin worry more about Munin, his memory not coming back to he does he does about Hugin, his perception? If his memory is gone will he forever be the mad god that sits around drunk? Does he depend more upon his memory because he drank from the well of Mimir? He has already given up an Eye, so his depth perception was never really his primary way of perceiving the world.
In the lesson of the 10th night, I liked this comment from Susanne: “Forgive me for being too mono-mythical, but I see a lot of resemblances between Odin and Dionysius. Both are Gods of the dark winter, reign the afterlife, and are symbols of rebirth. But, please do feel invited to disagree with me. I think James Hillman was on to something when he said that insanity is essential for the soul.”
And this: “On the light side one can see Odin as a shaman, who does not eat but has an insatiable appetite for knowledge…”
And: “In my eyes Odin is the personification of human spirit, and being a lover of mind expanding substances can travel easily between worlds of perception.”
And Night 10 cont.:
FASCINATING: “Ravens eat dead animals and are a symbol for the transition. Digesting this transition always comes with the blues, depression. That is what you experience in a loss. The loss of a partner, sister, job, imagined future… If you stay in the blues forever you are drowning in the Well of Memory. Thinking about all you lost and all that went wrong. Reliving your trauma’s from day to day just to make sure you don’t get hurt again.”
AND: “Why does Odin worry more about Munin, his memory not coming back to he does he does about Hugin, his perception? If his memory is gone will he forever be the mad god that sits around drunk? Does he depend more upon his memory because he drank from the well of Mimir? He has already given up an Eye, so his depth perception was never really his primary way of perceiving the world.
In the lesson of the 10th night, I liked this comment from Susanne: “Forgive me for being too mono-mythical, but I see a lot of resemblances between Odin and Dionysius. Both are Gods of the dark winter, reign the afterlife, and are symbols of rebirth. But, please do feel invited to disagree with me. I think James Hillman was on to something when he said that insanity is essential for the soul.”
And this: “On the light side one can see Odin as a shaman, who does not eat but has an insatiable appetite for knowledge…”
And: “In my eyes Odin is the personification of human spirit, and being a lover of mind expanding substances can travel easily between worlds of perception.”