Wotan (disambiguation)

Wotan is the Continental West Germanic name for the god known in Norse as Odin.

• Wotan or Wodan in Old High German.
• Wotan, the god is a character in Richard Wagner's Operas Der Ring des Nibelungen
• Wotan is the title of an essay on Wotan by Carl Jung included in Notes of the Seminar Given in 1928–1930

in Germanic and Nazi mysticism

• The veneration of Wotan or Wotanism was a religious philosophy promoted by Guido von List in the late 19th century
• W.O.T.A.N. is an acronym for Will Of The Aryan Nation, promulgated by David Lane. Lane's Wotanism is not to be confused with Germanic neopagan Odinism.

brand names

• Wotan, a code name for a WWII German radar navigation project, the Y-Gerät
• An A7V tank of WWI named "Wotan", its replica is in the German tank museum at Munster.

in popular culture

• Wotan, the capital of Mars in Space Patrol TV series.
• Wotans Wake, a 1962 film by Brian de Palma
• The controlling computer in the Doctor Who episode The War Machines
• A villain who fought Doctor Fate and the Golden Age Green Lantern
• The god of Dwarves in the Disciples series of computer games.
• Church of the Subgenius pseudo-deity JHVH-1 is sometimes referred to as Wotan.

See also

• Woden (disambiguation)
• Odin (disambiguation)
• References to Odin in popular culture