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Expressing remorse for Odin publicly becoming a Light God in recent months. I got to a place where I knew Odin as a dark god of the forest in a personal way...in an unbelievable way. I did not know any other conception of him whatsoever. I had my own mind's eye image of how he looked (nothing like the images in this vid), how he performed sorcerous deeds and the esoteric/occult potentials found within his words. As I grew out of isolation and talked to some of his supposed followers on the net, I found out that their conception and most likely the public at large, found him to be "90% catholic" and of an extremely Light oriented visage. Unfortunately I did not catch this right away, as I tend to be open and willing to give other people the benefit of the doubt beyond the amount of time I normally would give myself if I were somebody else. So now as time has given me space to recollect, it resurfaced into my conscious mind the ideas I once held about Odin (wotan, wothen, and other). A sorcerous, dark god of the woods, a certain personage of the forest, the magical possessor of natures life found in trees and birds and the ability to receive messages from animals, to divinate into the past and future at will, the transcendent staff and creation of it. To name a few properties my mind had conjured up from contemplating the norse myths into something living and filled with esoteric rites. I express my regret for allowing others to shape my mind in this regards, hoping that they too would see my shamanist ritual pagan view yet this didn't turn out to be the case and they would like to make religion into a cultural identity of external ritual to be performed rather than an inner spiritual reality that deals with energy, earth, and the mystical abstraction of the mind. That is why odin is upside down, his symbolic hanging from the tree, the corresponding tarot card and it's initiatory meaning, numerological conception and the symbolic runic secrets. Sorry for such a lengthy explanation! I just wanted to see if anyone else felt this way too... Music by uploader John Gilbert copyright 2013