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From: uri@mit-amt.MIT.EDU (Stuart Freedman)
Newsgroups: net.tv.drwho
Subject: Re: wotan
Message-ID: <75@mit-amt.MIT.EDU>
Date: Sun, 26-Jan-86 10:37:15 EST
Article-I.D.: mit-amt.75
Posted: Sun Jan 26 10:37:15 1986
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References: <1384@mhuxt.UUCP>
Reply-To: uri@media-lab.UUCP (Stuart Freedman)
Organization: Uri's account
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Keywords: Mythology, Wotan, Odin

> Article <1384@mhuxt.UUCP>
> From: evans@mhuxt.UUCP (crandall)

>   I got thinking about Wotan a bit more and it obviously is a pun on Odin
> (besides spelling the given 5 word title).  Wotan controls all else and
> has one "eye".  His "sons" fire "lightening", carry hammers, and create
> mischief.
>   Anything more that I missed?
> 
>                                 Sukie Crandall

As far as I know, Wotan is the name for the Odin figure in Germanic mythology,
so who needs puns?  Just check any opera in the Wagner Ring Cycle...

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