Talk:Wotanism

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As discussed HERE, I think that maybe Wotanism should be a disambiguation page as Wotanism as defined by plagiarist Ron McVan is a completely different concept and belief system from the Wotanism of Guido von List. And, both are different to Odinism] (Wotanism under a different name). FK0071a 09:05, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

There is little material on List's Wotanism that I am aware of, and I am pretty well read on this subject. What primary sources would you be using? At this time, I don't think there is enough material to make a Wotanism entry solely based on List and his contemporaries, and from what I understand, the original conception of the pre-WWII Wotanists was archetypal rather than literally polytheistic. Also, the numbers of people - at least in the English speaking world - who identify as Wotanist are minuscule. I can't even find one well established group or reliable website who uses Wotanism as a self-identifier. The few sparse places it occurs, they are of the David Lane school. Even the Temple of Wotan and Wotansvolk sites are gone. I'm not wholly opposed to it, but we need to have a list of reliable and verifiable sources before we proceed. - WeniWidiWiki 16:44, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

Oh, there is plenty of information from primary sources. I will list them shortly but it helps if you can translate German and also have access/the money to get the original texts. It took me a while but I did. However, I think at least that typing in Wotanism into Wikipedia should bring up a disambiguation page. This could look something like this even if as yet their are no article on each sub section you can at least directly get the information ot state they are not all the same. I think either a disambiguation page or in the opening paragragh of Wotanism it should make the distinction and say they are far from the same because if a disambiguation page is not made then the opening paragraph needs to be changed because "Wotanism is the name of a racial religion promulgated by David Lane." is simply wrong and not encyclopedic.
  • Wotanism: McVan
  • Wotanism: Odinist/Asatru
  • Wotanism: Guido von List

FK0071a 17:15, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

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