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“He had only one eye, for the heavens have but one sun, Wodan's eye. He wore a broad-brimmed hat, which represented the clouds that encircle the sun, and a blue mantle with golden spangles, the starry heavens. These attributes prove him to have been the Spirit of Nature.”
~Wägner
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A Raven illustration from an old natural history encyclopedia called “Der Naturen Bloeme” (“the flower of nature”) written in middle Dutch by Jacob van Maerlant, around year 1270
