Topic: Odin's Ordeal

[nichi]

Odin's Ordeal

Nine days.
Nine nights.
Speared by his own hand,
          he hung silently
          on the tree at world's end.
The cosmic winds were tearing
          furiously at his bones.
His mind was spread out infinitely
          in the reliquary of time.
He waited breathlessly,
          every fiber surrendered,
          every flickering thought
          hovering in the nowhere
          of the ever-present moment.
He, single-eyed Odin,
          waited dispassionately
          for death to end
          and new knowledge to burgeon.
All was as it will be.


By Georg Feuerstein
(1947 - )


Poetry Chaikhana 

[Jahn]

Yes,
that is right - the shaman of the shamans sacrificed himself to himself.

[Michael]

strong stuff!