Wotan (disambiguation)
Appearance
Wotan may refer to:
- The Continental West Germanic god known in Norse as Odin, properly spelled Wodan.
- 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
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.
- Wotan, an Epic Metal band from Italy.