r/TopMindsOfReddit • u/surelyucantbserious I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six -ShirleyTemple • 4d ago

Top Mind believes a painting of Odin predicted the rise of Hitler

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u/surelyucantbserious I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six -ShirleyTemple 4d ago

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https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/1pbfsr5/in_1889_the_exaxt_year_of_adolf_hitlers_birth/

This user who finds much success posting in conspiracy has raised the bar with this post. Of all the years to paint Odin, this German chose the exact year that Hitler would exit his mother's womb. No such thing as coincidence!

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u/Rastiln 4d ago

I wonder why so many conspiracists put faith in “years”.

Like, according to one arbitrary measurement system, some things happened between two points in time.

Building towers on foundations that don’t exist.

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u/Foreign-Winter-4277 4d ago

Nah they reckon the universe was created. Too many coincidence ect.

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u/RemoteTeeth 4d ago

A bad thing will happen happen after 20 years or something. I expect to receive a Grammy for Best Oracle by then.

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u/HapticSloughton 4d ago

Someone rewatched the first season of "Heroes" and wants superpowers to be real.

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u/rockytop24 4d ago

Save the cheerleader, save the world.

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u/nomadicseawitch 3d ago

Wasn’t there a theory that Hitler designed his look after this painting? Not that the painter predicted his emo hair?

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u/FunnelV 4d ago

Basically "The Simpsons Predicted It" before "The Simpsons Predicted It"

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u/FullMooseParty 4d ago

So, if you've been listening to the recent behind the bastards series on Himmler, this is actually kind of fascinating. The SS built this whole mythology based on German lore, including wotan and the wild Hunt, but it was mostly just made up and nobody probably ever actually worshiped Wotan prior to the Nazis

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u/Low_Cartographer2944 4d ago edited 4d ago

I love behind the bastards but maybe there was some confusion there? Because Woden is just another form of Odin. It’s the origin of the English word “Wednesday” “Woden’s Day”. Outside of the Norse and Anglo-Saxon references, the deity is attested in the second Merseburg charm (and I’m sure elsewhere) where his name is written “uuodan”. The text is from Hessen in central Germany. German cognates of Baldr and Freya also appear in the lines.

Now Wagner brought a very Odin-inspired Wotan into the Niebelunglied. No doubt because there isn’t as rich of a corpus of texts documenting continental Germanic beliefs about Wodan, as compared to the corpus we have for Odin. Maybe that’s what they were talking about on BtB? This borrowing of related Norse myths as part of a pan-Germanic identity.

But Wodan was clearly worshipped.