Its cursed because if you try and force relatedness or possess people you produce the opposite. He calls out Fafnir, a scaly dragon and defeats Her much as Gilgamesh defeats the great Humbaba/ Cybele, Great Mother of the ancient world…įafnir had treasure, the cursed horde of the Niebelung, gold that will make you wish that you had never even heard of it, much less nicked the lot.įafnir’s treasure is what every great She-Beast stands guard over, the Principle of Relatedness. Siegfried’s wars are liable to become holy.
Forging the star into a sword is placing the numinosity of the Self and the autonomy of the Psyche in service of the Warrior archetype… The nearly alchemical processes involved in their production were a kind of magic and many believed swords were sentient, that they had their own life. They absorbed the power of the Gods and the souls of their victims. In ancient times swords were imbued with mystery and given names. Siegfried decides to forge the star into a sword. Jung.īut sometimes it doesn’t quite work out like that.Įspecially if you have a foreign policy to rival Genhgis Khan. ‘The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.’ C. Banks-LeiteĬonjuncted systems do more than co-mingle. ”Naturally occurring ecosystem boundaries sometimes form a unique habitat to which species are specifically adapted.” C. Over in Europe, Siegfried doesn’t do quite as well…Ī collision of cultures is a bit like the the meeting of different ecosystems. Gilgamesh gets the message and goes journeying for the elixir of immortality. And so he is now to follow his unique destiny instead of fullfiling a collective roll…’ M.L. the eternal kernel of the human psyche, the eternal man within us. ”the star means the immortal soul of man…. All the people gather around and worship it. This king dreams he is walking about proudly amongst his people when a star falls on him. The story of Gilgamesh, another proud and warlike king of a New and Shining Age, contains a very similar scene. He runs over only to find someone else has also seen it and arrived at the same time, Brunhilde, queen of Iceland. One version of the story of Siegfried has him a king’s son raised secretly as a blacksmith after the throne is taken by Saxons. They read like a curse upon the times, a judgement made, not by any one person, but by the collective imagination of an epoch. In both cases an epic tale sprang into being that tells of what happens when people fail to accomodate one another. The story of Siegfried is symbolic allegory for the violent collision of Norse and Christian cultures much as the epic of Gilgamesh () was the last offering of the matriarchal Sumerians before being entirely overun by the Assyrians and their one god Marduk. ‘Whilst the ancient powers faded a wonderous tale arose that captured the hearts of the people a blacksmith who slew a dragon and won a legendary treasure….” U. Its origins are in the Volsung sagas of 600AD or there about and the story didn’t acheive popularity in its own right untill 1100 or so. The legend of Siegfried is fascinating as much for its context within the events of that time as the story it told. Alex Litoiu on Going Mad to Stay Sane.northwildblog on The Shepherd and the Snake.
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