06/10/2023
Shani Oates
The Hanged God – Standard Hardcover
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¶ Standard Edition (Limited to 640 copies — 2022): 5.25 x 8.5 inches. 192 pages. Hardbound 100pts, bound in Dark Brown Setalux fine Italian bookcloth. Gold foil blocking on rounded spine and Blind Deboss Bind-Rune on the cover. 1 Full-Color Frontispiece. B&W interior, with “Oatmeal-coloured” with Ultra Reverse pattern embossing Endpapers. Black & Yellow Headbands. Fully Illustrated. Fine typography, printed on Husky Opaque Offset Smooth 160M archive-quality paper. Hand-numbered.
The Hanged God: Óðinn Grímnir
(Volume I of the Óðinn Trilogy within the Northern Otherworld Series)
by Shani Oates
Challenging former atrophied or outdated knowledge regarding Óðinn’s acquisition of the runes and the mead of poetry, this extensive and intense study revisits Hávamál, Vǫluspá, Skáldskaparmál, Grímnismál, Heimskringla and Ynglinga Sagas specifically, to unravel and reconnect crucial factors that collectively reveal a magical formula for rebirth and resurrection. These kennings have preserved the threads of mysteries pertaining to Rúnar entrenched in Taboo. Óðinn’s quest of discovery takes him through three historically attested trials as Rites of Passage that find parallel forms in other animistic traditions. His ordeals of Mound, Tree and Sacral Kingship together with an articulation of the role of Hamingja are hitherto connected.
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