The Search for Óðinn by Shani Oates (hardcover) Sigils my research pushes past conventional

my research pushes past conventional boundaries into the totemic practises of Eurasian peoples while remaining faithfully aligned to stringent archaeological and anthropological discoveries

of the ‘elder divinity’ and the old ‘spirit of the wild’ has lingered through to the present

including the Minor Arcana

realizations

The Search for Óðinn by Shani Oates (hardcover) Sigils my research pushes past conventionalDescription inn has been scandalised and deified in equal measure by medieval churchmen, demonising pre Christian beliefs, and more recently by the romantic idealists and nationalists of the 20th Century, who glamorised them, to the extent that the genuine historical persona of this popular figure is saturated in complex, confusing mythology. Poetic kennings and riddles tease out our deductive processes, pushing beyond rational, logistic exploration