If the most quantitatively important book of the Edda is called Gylfaginning ("the mystification of Gylfi"), it is because Erda, this world, the world of the quantitative, is just that: a mystification, of which Wotan pulls the strings.
Since our arrival on earth, we are the toys in the hands of the old magician... Everything is only illusion, fake and hidden camera... Our fights, our loves, our misfortunes... mystifications!... In order to lead us to transgress the "eternal pact" of death, by giving us the courage to defy our Fate and to abandon our hysterical envelope on our own, killing the old man so that, like the new Sun of Yule, or Baldr returning from Helheim, for us to be reborn for a new life...
Everything is always, with Wotan, a question of initiatory suicide, as it is written in Hávamál 138 : "The self sacrified to myself".
Since our arrival on earth, we are the toys in the hands of the old magician... Everything is only illusion, fake and hidden camera... Our fights, our loves, our misfortunes... mystifications!... In order to lead us to transgress the "eternal pact" of death, by giving us the courage to defy our Fate and to abandon our hysterical envelope on our own, killing the old man so that, like the new Sun of Yule, or Baldr returning from Helheim, for us to be reborn for a new life...
Everything is always, with Wotan, a question of initiatory suicide, as it is written in Hávamál 138 : "The self sacrified to myself".