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Wotan (disambiguation)

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

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

See also