Wotan (disambiguation)

Wotan may refer to:

• Wotan, the Continental West Germanic god corresponding to Norse Odin.
• Wotan, a character in Richard Wagner's opera cycle 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
• Votan, a legendary grandson of Noah who migrated with his family to Mexico according to La Historia Antigua de México (1780) by Francisco Javier Clavijero. Votan has been repeatedly confused with Wotan and Odin in works of pseudohistory such as Atlantis: The Antediluvian World (1882).

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
• WOTAN, the controlling computer in the Doctor Who serial 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.
• Wotan, an Epic Metal band from Italy.

See also

• Woden (disambiguation)
• Odin (disambiguation)