Dear Wendy and the Deathing Of Odin.
With my relatively recent deep dive into personal defensive equipment , I decided on a timely re-watch of Dear Wendy (2005 CE). There's a sequence before the climatic shootout at the end where The Dandies (pretty much a warrior ritual-centric männerbund ) break a bottle and take a cut along the arm in order to undergo a sort-of death analogue experience , that way when they do march off into the town square they've already faced and gotten passed the idea of being killed and so can then proceed fearlessly toward their fate. If we look at the Norse Lore, Odin sacrifices himself to himself, running a spear through his body to hang on the World Tree for nine days & nine nights, passing through a state of death that reveals the Runes and unlocks their magical uses. While the deathing's a means to that end, it's also a very exceptional experience, and one has to consider that Odin having that under his belt must now look at the cosmos he created & himself, and t...
