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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
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“Hefir sá ok jafnan, er hættir.”
“He always wins, who risks.”
~Hrafnkels saga freysgoða
Art: Hrafnkel by Andreas Bloch, 1895. 𐘾
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6 healthy volunteers drank ~1.13 L of beer providing ~600 μmol of monosilicic acid. Within 8 hours, they excreted ~56% of the ingested silicon (range 42–75%), with a concurrent, statistically significant rise in urinary aluminum excretion (p <0.05).
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People love to say this but it’s just not true. Most lagers and pilsners have negligible estrogenic activity. IPAs have more 8-PN (from the hops), but still not enough that normal drinking is meaningfully estrogenic. Heavy alcoholism can raise estrogen via aromatization and impaired liver clearance, but that’s not the same thing.
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The Anglo Saxon sword and bracteate recently found in Stowting, Kent, now cleaned and on display. On the bracteate, the animal’s body appears to form a single eye in the middle; very Wodenic.
Photos by Wodnesdael. ᚩ
