[UA] Jesus in the UnAverse (was RE: Interesting plotline gene rator...)

[gareth hanrahan]

>At 5:03 PM -0500 12/1/99, Stimson, Aaron wrote:
>>
>>Interesting note:  Odin, in his youth, was nailed to a tree and
stabbed in
>>the side with a spear.  Didn't >kill him, but it's an interesting
>>comparison.
>
>
>Not only that, but in the version I've heard, he did it to himself,
in one
>of his numerous trials to gain wisdom (this ordeal gave him
understanding
>of the runes).


On this topic...I've been thinking of an Archetype of the man who
suffers for wisdom, or more precisely, suffers to gain wisdom. I
think the Hanging Man/Hanged Man in the tarot has something to do
with this, but I'm quite possibly wrong...

Gar



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