Early on Friday morning (about 6.00am on 29/5/22) I had a very vivid dream in which I appeared to be on the top of a high rise building. Why I was there, I do not know. In the distance I could see something or someone getting closer and closer. I felt a sense of alarm and a feeling of danger.
As the image drew swiftly closer, I perceived that it was a human figure on a horse. As the figure approached the building I could see clearly that the person had the face of an old man with a long white beard, riding a white horse. He was bare headed and his face appeared very angry. His face grew ever more angry and in that moment I sensed that this was none other than the German god, Wotan/Wutan/Wuotan/Wodan. I stress Wotan, not Woden or Odin. Wotan or Wuotan has a greater sense of rage than Odin, and even Woden. The root of Wotan is the German word 'wut' which has the connotations of rage, frenzy and even possession. Of course other versions of this name have the same root but 'Wotan' conveys the meaning better, and it was this name that was communicated to me during the dream. All of these names for the god stem from the hypothetical Proto-Germanic *Wodanaz, 'the lord of frenzy'.
It was unclear to me whether Wotan's rage was directed at me personally or it was simply a characteristic of the god that was being manifested. Before the god could get closer to me I was spirited away to a far away place, a place that Wotan has pre-determined for me. This was the sense of the dream.
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