Walt Whitman Totally Looks Like Odin
Walt Whitman Totally Looks Like Odin
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Looks more like Sir Ian McKellen as Gandalf.
No wonder, really… as JRR Tolkien modeled Gandalf after Odin the Wanderer, and good ol’ boy Pete Jackson (in a RARE glimpse of intelligence) cast Sir Ian McKellen as the greatest wizard in any genre known to man.
I meant that the Whitman pic looks like McKellen. Quite like him, in fact, especially around the eyes.
That’s because Whitman and McKellen are both old gay men with beards.
Agreed. That was what I thought after first looking at this.
From “Leaves of Grass (Song of Myself)”
*ahem*
“I celebrate myself,
And what I assume, you shall assume,
And every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.
I loafe and invite my soul,
I lean and loafe at my ease… observing a spear of summer grass.”
“Clear and sweet is my soul… and clear and sweet is all that is not my soul.
” I believe in you my soul… the other I am must not abase itself to you,
and you must not be abased to the other.
Loafe with me on the grass… loose the stop from your throat
Not words, not music or rhyme I want… not custom or lecture, not even the best,
Only the lull I like, the hum of your valved voice.”
(Walks away, humming a tune of summer and poetry)
Walt Whitman rocks!
I know you posted this two days ago, but this just made my Monday morning
You’re welcome! Here’s another bit that’s most apropos:
“I have heard what the talkers were talking… the talk of the beginning and the end,
But I do not talk of the beginning or the end.”
(and a bit farther on…)
“Backward I see in my own days where I sweated through fog with linguists and contenders,
I have no mockings or arguments… I witness, and wait.”
yes, Whitman = a god
You = a loser
That’s not correct, you are misguided
Who would have guessed Odin wore floppy hats?
People who read the lore!
That actually is one of his signature trademarks. Whenever he travels Midgård disguised as an ordinary man he dons the hat. If you read anything on the subject it’s kinda on the level of Buddha being enlighted or the Chupacabra sucking goats and whatnot.
Does it have the dread runes “L.L. BEAN” sewn into the band?
Really…it actually says “He wore a floppy canvas hat”?
Anything about deck shoes?
Well, floppy is not a word specifically used, but wide brimmed it is, and that kind tends to flop a bit.
That’s probably a fly-fishing rod he’s holding, too.
Gandalf! It’s Gan-dalf!
Odin is older than Gandalf.
Sheesh.
It is amazing the number of people who don’t KNOW this.
I was being sarcastic. Geez.
Must be from before the eye incident.
I don’t doubt that Whitman would give his eye for knowledge
Look closely. The Allfather’s right eye is closed.
it just looks squinty and empty to me.
Hail btw
Hail.
you said it yourself…squinty and empty…Odin’s not known for wearing an eyepatch like a Bond villain. Most depictions show him with one eye closed over the empty socket.
makes sense, makes sense
The pic of odin makes him look like the gordons fisherman doesn’t it?
Epic Norse Win.
I doubt Odin looks like this.
odin was the god of poetry
Nopes, that’s Brage. Oden is the god of lies & deciet, the executed (specifically hanged), knowledge, war (along with Tyr), and most importantly, death.
Odin is not the god of lies and deceit. That would be Loki; a sadly misinterpreted god.
Loke is most defenetly not a god whatsoever, as he is a giant. And if you would look more deeply into for instance the Edda you would see that Oden is infact often at least as untrustworthy and prone to deception as ever Loke.
And just to add a bit of knowledge to you; Loke is not really misinterpreted as such, it’s more the problem of a christian duality-based world view that can’t handle a non-dualistic poly-theistic belief system where no god/giant/dwarf/etc is all good or all evil, and most are more or less as human as anyone of us apart from their superhuman abilities.
Loke is an absolute asshole as far as the asir and vanir are concerened but at the same time he is the spark that ignites the chainreaction that causes ragnarök and the rebirth of the earth and thus completes the cyclic order of things.
And they both look like gandalf
What, do all old white guys look the same to you?? Racist. And ageist for that matter.
Holy cow!! How do all of you know so much abour Odin, and I know practically nothing! Darn cheap government education…….*walks off muttering in the direction of the library.*
It’s not that uncommon if you’re from Sweden like me, or from Norway, Denmark, Iceland, Faeroe Island or Finland. Add a special interest and blammo, knowledge a-plenty!
Walt Whitman, founder of where I live.
The painting of Odin was painted by George von Rosen roughly ten years before Whitman’s death.
…it’s highly possible that the painter met Whitman and decided to paint Odin’s visage as a likeness to the poet’s as a sort of omage to Whitman’s unique poetry. It is to be noted that Odin, in Norse mythology, was not only a god of battle and death, but of wisdom, poetry, and prophecy as well. This, or course, could surely have inspired the painter to use Whitman’s worn, knowing countenance as the battle hardened, yet wise and philosophical face of Odin.
*Georg von Rosen…my apologies for the typographical error.
gandalf!!
odin is the viking god of thunder.
I smell a trol here, but I’m feeling benevolent and will feed it.
1. Tor (or Thor for you anglosaxon types) is the god of thunder.
2. There are not nor have ever existed any “viking gods”. In English I believe the common term is “Norse gods”. Not all people living in the north were vikings. Vikings were the ones who went out “i viking” as it were, roughly translated to “on a tour of trading, pirating and exploration”.