MITOLOGIA NÓRDICA - ANEL DO NIBELUNGO - Prof Lúcia Helena Galvão de Nova Acrópole

New Acropolis International organization presents: The Nibelung Ring, with Lúcia Helena Galvão Last week, when we talked about Nordic mythology, are not interdependent in the sense that One does not understand a lecture without the other. In fact they are very independent. I wanted to do last week a more historical lecture, Although we spoke more of myths than history. But the history in the sense of giving a perspective of sacred books, of the main myths, the main sagas, of the magical universe of the Nordic world, and the philosophical logic that existed within this universe. There is evidently.

It was A very complex set That today has been very fashionable. Today the interest for this Scandinavian mythology. is very strongly reborn. And today we will talk about a main myth, Because it is very complicated to talk about a myth when it is described by ten different sources. For those who were in the King's Arthur myth, I lived that same drama because there are ten sources and each One of them tells the myth in a different way. Ten is little! When it comes to the King's Arthur myth has a lot more than ten. Here is

the same thing. There are so many sources to talk about a single story That we have to choose one version. So it is very possible and even likely that You know some passage from the story Of a slightly different way. There is no way to be different, we have to choose a line. But any line you choose, any approach you choose, will realize many Interesting things, recurring in the myth. Very recurring elements. That is, a dragon keeping a treasure. Want something more recurring than that? Dragon guarding treasure was The one that Hercules faced When he

had to get the apples from the Garden of Hesperides. Dragon keeping treasure is the one who Jason faced when he had to take the venue. That is, dragon keeping treasure is very common. There must be some mystery, some secret, Something that is meant by that. That is not much different, for example, when you consider in Pre-Columbian America, in Aztec world, a Quetzalcoatl. What do you think of a dragon? Isn't it very similar to a winged snake? The serpent with wings? Quetzalcoatl is the winged serpent who also kept a treasure. Which was the treasure of civilization.

He who civilizes, he brings the elements from civilization to that people. Anyway, the myths are so recurring because they talk about ordinary truths. I always comment in my lectures And who has come, I have talked a lot about it. It's like a tree at the top of the mountain, that everyone is climbing and wanting to know What exists at the top of that mountain. Everyone who reached a certain stature on this climb See the same thing: a tree. Even if some speak in Quechua and others speak Sanskrit. When you compare, you see that This is

the same reality. There is Carl Jung to show us how much human symbolism even In our dreams it is similar. The symbolic keys of the unconscious Human even in dreams are similar. So we took many recurring elements. In fact the goal of a myth, within a school of philosophy, Is to show that all myths They are talking about the human saga, They are talking about the human being. So we'll see one thing here very interesting, in this particular myth, Because today we will tell a story. Then you will think, "It will end quickly." Don't be

so excited: it's not quick, It is a very long story. Which is the history of Siegfried Valkyrie. It is the history of Wagner's tetralogy. It is a single story, but very long. But we could say that, despite seeming, The center of history is not the ring, which was later valued by Tolkien; The center of history is not the dragon, Although it is very showy. The center of history is a human being That rises above the ordinary human being. A human being who, you will realize that it is curious, There is a feature in this myth,

which is an image that is very recorded in our mind. Both Valkyrie and these Heroes, like Siegfried and Sigmund, They wear a hat with wings. You don't think that curious, do you? Why wings on a hat? Why not on the back? Isn't it the right place to put wings? Actually you will realize that this element, which characterizes the goddesses like the Valkyrie or characterizes special human beings, Like Siegfried, they are related exactly to something that is within the mind of man And that has wings. Very similar to Athena, who Get out of Zeus's head. It

is considered that man has Two forms of thought: a thought that is very material, very concrete. It is as they say in the Indian tradition: The Mind of Man It's like a mirror, Sometimes it turns down and only reflects the material interests, instincts, mere survival and generates resources so that This survival is done in the best way possible. This is a mind without wings. And when this mind turns up, reflects universal goals, principles, fraternity, values, This mind creates wings. In India they called it Kama Manas, this mind of desires, this Lower mind turned down. And

Manas, this pure mind, this Winged, the one that raises flight. This one that seeks noblest things. So, actually, let's see a world Where the man is in transition between the animal and the human being. And when this man truly wins its tests, And we will see that it is the worst of them What? What is the worst test? Who knows Siegfried, A little of his story? Has anyone heard? What is the worst proof Siegfried faces After winning dragons, Fires and enemies and all? One of the worst tests that the human being can face ... The

forgetfulness! Forgetfulness is his worst test. After he wins the oblivion, that he recovers his memory, that he meets his divine soul, This world has to be all absorbed and recreated on another level. For men like him, that world already no longer fits men like him. Then comes the twilight of the gods, the Ragnarok. Basically what's saying It is a renewal of humanity, a recreation of humanity around other values. A very interesting idea, quite strong. Now for every corner, that you will see, there are universal symbols. Symbols that are used for everything. The apples of eternity!

Apple then it's a thing ... Nine between ten Fairies tales, if it has fruit, it is apple. You have already seen another fruit in Fairy tale that wasn't apple? Apple and sometimes in several myths too, right? So there are many symbolisms which are very recurring. And we can get to conclusions very interesting. Let's go? So let's work a little with the story, a little with the symbolism of history within what we can decode. I would be lying, deceiving you, If I said we'll completely clarify a myth. Because, as Helena Blavatsky said, A myth is a

house of at least seven doors. You go deeper into it When you deepen yourself. And who says to you, "I will open all the doors of a myth for you ", Careful! It's fooling you! Because no one can force your internal doors, so you can't open the external, Because in nature nothing is given for free. Even if you open the door, You can't enter, Or if you enter you see nothing, Because it is not an achievement External, it is an internal achievement. So what we are going to give are some elements. All these mythology lectures

that I really like to do, These are invitations to get flight. Basically I would say that a invitation for you to realize that your life is a myth. That life is symbolic and that there is to learn to dialogue with life, decode what symbols They want to tell us. I often say that a philosopher is very difficult that does not have the symbolic mindset. Because it does not dialogue with your own life, Therefore, it is hardly growing. You think life is a huddled with casual conjunctures, Hardly grows. So, as I told you, You have to

choose a version And I chose a version that is from Richard Wagner himself: The so -called Nibelung ring, which is tetralogy. Wagner takes a quantity of unusual sources And it makes mixture, an amalgam. Take a little bit from here, a little bit, format. We will see some of the sources he uses. There are others. I didn't put them all In order not to put you exhausted with exotic names of the Scandinavian sagas. Because they are names ... the Icelanders are very complicated. But basically what he uses to Based on, to do this work, I brought

it here. And in each piece sometimes he uses One more work; sometimes more. Germanic works, from Germanic mythology; Icelandic works such as the Vorsenga Saga. That is, it makes a combination of elements. They may have heard that Wagner came to bold, When he does this work, that he considers his masterpiece and, in fact, is A great musical drama. You cannot call the ring of opera nibelungs, that you offend Wagner. He rummages into the grave. AND Much more than an opera ... It's a grand musical drama! And he takes it then and amendment. At first he

was going to do only a part, Siegfried; then amendment another, the Nibelung ring; The gold of the Rhine; Then amend the twilight of the gods; Then Valkyrie Amendment. In all, fifteen hours of work are presented in four Days at the Bayreuth Festival. Fifteen hours divided into four days and are not equal pieces; The last day is the longest. So it's four days, a sequence and it's impressive Because it is said that if you are going to buy the ticket, Depending on the piece you want to watch ... Because it stages everything from Wagner in this

theater. It is a theater, for those who do not know - I know that some here know very well -, It was built by Wagner To present your works, because there was nothing suitable at the time. The great eloquence, the space he needed, The amplitude he needed For your musical dramas, There was no theater that was height in that place he wanted, The way he wanted. So he takes nobles from nobles, Anyway, he can build this theater. And to this day, since 1876, all the years, all summers, If you interpret this piece in Bayreuth. This

little city of Germany. If you want to watch Bayreuth tetralogy, you can Wait eight to ten years in line. That is, there are 60 thousand people that they serve each year. Around you must imagine that It must have about 600 thousand in line. So it's impressive because it is a public success, that Every year is renewed and no longer ends. We will see a scene of this wonderful theater, where the tetralogy is interpreted. Of course I am not in this area, I will not go into details It is not even the objective of the lecture

Talk about Wagner's work, but yes of the history of the script, that he created as an amalgam of all this mythology And a little, within what is possible, of the symbolic meaning. So Wagner's tetralogy, which It is composed of these four parts, The gold of the renew, the Valkyrie, Sigfried and the twilight of the gods. The script is written by him, is corrected by He and he practically does everything inside the work. So the gold of the renew is based especially in Edda in verse. You remember, who was here last week, There are eddas in

verse and the prose eddas, those that were translated already well late. Valkyrie is very much in the Icelandic saga of the Viorsunga. Vorsunga saga is the basis of Valkyrie, which is the second part. SIEGFRIED is based on eddas in prose or eddas de snorri, also in verse, but more in the eddas from Snorri, which are Eddas in Prose, and in the song of Nibelung, which is a Set of Germanic Stories, a set of Germanic myths. The twilight of the gods, which is the final part, Much of the Nibelung song, also in the eddas, but also

in this Germanic mythology, of this famous writer Jacob Grimm, which was published in 1835. Anyway, besides that has more a half dozen names, of poems and epics he will use. ... and a lot more of simple names like these. A lot of poems he uses and joins and builds this script. We will then follow Wagner's script. Logical that each of these stories guard peculiarities And they are not equal to his script. But as it is very complete, very wide, Because when you take it, for Example, Vorsunga Saga or any of these Germanic songs, like the

song of Nibelungo, They are very regional. Wagner sets a universal tone to the work. So he takes very small elements, He sets a human tone to the work. So it's very interesting to work With this version of Wagner, based on the mythological version. Look how beautiful theater! It's worth waiting 8 to 10 years, no? A beautiful theater! An experience that would really be worth To live in a life, right? Watch this piece in this theater. Wagner's dream in the theater he dreamed of. Well, the gold of the Rhine, which is the first part. Let's start

imagining the scenario, everything that dreamed Wagner, Everything that dreamed all these mythologies that remained alive over the centuries. The Gold of the Rhine says there were three nymphs who kept a wealth, a gold, that was at the bottom of this river. The Rhine River. And they bathed and sang and, like all nymph, Like all elemental, very beautiful. And this wealth was under the river. And people had never tried to loot. They were guardians, but they had A certain unconcern Because there was a secret, a very high price For those who tried to steal the gold

from the Rhine. This person who stole the gold of the Rhine would have to renounce solemnly To love, for life. As it was a very expensive and very high price, generally as an ambitious as was the aspiring, He didn’t go so far. So they were little fear of this gold being looted. Remember that we commented, in our last lecture, that in general there is a basic symbol in most myths, water and fire. One as horizontality, which is the matter, and another as verticality, that is associated with the Spirit or the spiritual mind, luminous, vertical, transmutator.

Then water, when things dive into the water, When we saw the King's Arthur myth we talked about this: the sword that dives into the water is disappear, it is braked by materialism. So it's the riches that are brought by the material world. The riches of the material world, that for you to have them, You would have to renounce true love. So they live there and They play and are not very afraid. Until there a dwarf shows up. This is an interesting passage Because you will see that it has everything Within this myth: dwarfs, giants, all

beings. It is a mythology very rich in elementals, as we talked in the past class. These dwarfs lived in the underground of the earth. Had a certain prejudice, including in relation to those who lived on the surface. They called those who lived on the surface of 'discoveries'. The discoveries'. Those who had nothing to cover your home. In a way, it is as if they symbolized a being who does not want to have any contact with the sky. That is, it is the most gross and more fallen in the matter that a being can have. So

material and curved in the matter. The dwarfs were like this: In the matter, attached to the material. And this dwarf, which was Alberico, He was very inexpressive, had no power in the world of dwarfs. There by, he goes through this place and sees these three beautiful nymphs. It was not beautiful Alberico. Definitely It was not a beauty model. It was a dwarf. And he arrives and falls in love with those nymphs. Nymphs are, by definition, beautiful beings. And starts to joke with them and they also start to joke, mocking it, because it's actually ridiculous that

three beings so beautiful Let´s - Say like this - courted by a unsightly being like a dwarf. And they play, mock, make themselves interested to then despise him And he feels very offended by that. Suddenly he sees a gold glow coming from the bottom of the river. And he asks them what that is. - You do not know? Everyone knows what That is! That is the gold of the Rhine! We are here to keep it. We are the guardians of the golden gold. - Gold? At the bottom of the river? Like this? No one takes?

No one steals? - Yeah ... because this gold, who seizes him will have to renounce love in definitively. for all your life And no one would make such an exchange. Imagine you the situation! He, a misshapen dwarf that had just been despised by the nymphs, offended, feeling without many chances with love; Chance of taking over all That gold, he has no doubt. It is said that he goes up to a rock and solemnly declares to the four winds: - I renounce love! And when renouncing love he dives in this river, Take the Gold of the

Rhine and leave with it. And they are desperate because they had no imagined that this could happen. So this Alberic, which is part of these dwarfs that are called Nibelungs - Remember last week? Niflheim, the mist, the fog country; The Nibelungs are the sons of the mist. And so you already see that you have a symbolism. Mist is something that is not clear, It's something that is not very clear, That is, it has a lot to do with the ignorance, with the blurred vision. They are children of blurred vision, from a world obscure, who had

no contact with the sky. And Alberico arrives then with this gold, in the underground where he lived, which was the country of Nibelungs, and find yourself endowed with great power, Because this gold was special and had great powers. He had a brother who was a Great blacksmith, who was Mime. And to this Mime, he asks his brother to manufacture For him, firstly, a ring And then make a helm. This helm would give him powers of invisibility and to transform, Because this gold already had powers. So when he makes this helm Wonderful, this helm is endowed

with powers; of him taking the form he wants and Also the be invisible if he wants. So, with this ring, which was a ring that also channeled a lot of power, inspired terror in people, And this helm that made him invisible, he simply enslaves all the dwarves. Including the brother himself, who made these two elements for him. He makes all Dwarfs become your slaves and get around the middle of the earth, doing Mining and gathering gold for him. So that initial gold he transformed in the helmet and ring, that magical gold of the Rhine, He

is gathering an incalculable amount of gold and more gold and more gold. It enslaves the brother, enslaves all the dwarves. Since he could become invisible, Everyone was afraid to criticize him because he could be listening anywhere. And it is very hard, very cruel, then becomes a Tyran of the underground, of the country of the Nibelungs. A small king of that land. And very rich because the dwarfs begin to generate gold Indefinitely for him, from that power that he acquires. So this is the beginning of the story of this Nibelung. Son of the mist, that is,

of ignorance, totally disconnected from the sky, and owner of a gold, which is this power of Material world, which makes you completely blind. Renounce any kind of love higher, nobler, true. He only has desires. And lives in the earth accumulating more riches and more riches. This one was Alberico. So our story begins! The construction of Walhalla. You remember that all this is happening here in Midgard, The land of men, the earth average, as Tolkien would say, And up there we have the Asgard, the land of the gods. And Odin, at a certain point resolved that

he needed to have a palace that was up to receive the their warriors killed in battle, Because for him, he had to permanently encourage men to be heroes, And the heroes had to have a post -life compensation. Could not arrive at Asgard and simply find a prairie which, although wonderful, was not grand enough to be the home of a hero. He dreamed of having a castle whose walls were covered with spears, and the ceiling covered with shields. A place where his best warriors They could supper with him, Odin, every day. And wage endless battles, and

cultivate heroism eternally until the moment they had to fight alongside the gods, They were prepared. He dreamed of this castle, but he, Odin - You will realize that it is interesting, because these beings, in the Nordic mythology, Even the gods have their limitations; They get older, they die, they They have flaws, they seek to perfect themselves; Odin is always looking for improvement in some way ... So Odin couldn't build this Castle, it was a very magnificent work And he had no skills for that. There were the giants, that some of them had a lot of

skill for builders. Fafner and Fasolt, especially, were two giants that lived in the territory of the giants, Which was Jotunheim, and they were very good. It's interesting because - you Remember, we talked about it -, They live in war with the giants, But every once in a while they marry the giants, From time to time they hire the giants, From time to time Thor visit the giants, That is, it is a war but not so much. There is an interaction between them. The giants represent all this giant greed, These giant desires, These elements of the

past, that should have already been overcome. Then are placed on the sidelines of the earth and watched, so that they do not invade humanity again. Placed on the fringes of the earth and watched, so that they do not dominate the man again. But at that moment, Fafner and Fasolt were the people to build this castle for him. He hires the giants. Then the giants charge an absurd price. They say the following: "Look, for us to build this castle for you only has one possible payment, who is the goddess of love, Freya. " It is the

aphrodite of the Scandinavians. But it still has a particularity: She was the goddess of love and beauty, But she was responsible for gathering the apples that guaranteed the gods immortality. The gods were not immortal by themselves; They had to be fed by this apple of immortality, because if they didn't they would age and died. That is, the gods were deadly, so much so that they even die at the end. They are deadly. So imagine you! Freya, if they Give her away, they not only lose the goddess of love; They also lose youth and even life.

And that was unthinkable! Then Odin says, "No, not this price!" Then the giants say, "It's just that price!" Has a citizen in this story, that the we talked about him last week, Loki or Logé, in this Germanic version, which is The God of fire, that is, is the God of mind. And as I told you, the mind is dual: Sometimes she destroys, sometimes she builds. So no one knows how to say if Loki is positive or negative, because he is both. Loki sometimes do terrible things, And sometimes he does wonderful things, because he is the

most ingenious of the gods. Then Odin will call Loki. Wotan right, in this case, because We are in Germanic mythology! Call Loki and says, "What do I do about these guys? They just want Freya as payment! " He says, "Don't worry about it! Easy business! Do the following: put a deadline That they will not be able fulfill at all. Then you say you don't deliver Freya because They did not comply with the construction on time. Then you deliver anything else for them and they will have to be content, Because they broke the pact ... put

a deadline that is impossible to fulfill For them to give you this castle the way you want. " - Do you think it will work? - Yes! Sure! Sure! Then they write ... He has a spear, where the pacts are signed, Wotan right ... that is Gungnir, and they write there the pact signed and Wotan signs. If they fulfilled in a period X would deliver Freya. Imagine! And it's not that they meet! They had to fulfill, right? To complicate the story. They bring all the magical powers, the Jotunheim magical horse, Do everything and actually do

it ... their desire, In fact was to have Freya, but it was also to see the Gods aging. Because the giants were immortal enemies of the Gods. So they do everything and They conquer Freya. It is interesting if we observe, as I told you, the story of the apples. I've had a very funny episode: once a student asked me why apple in mythology, Why so much apple? Apple in the garden From Eden, Apple in Snow White ... Why isn't another fruit used? Why you think? A pineapple maybe? A watermelon? What do you think? Someone has

any tips why the apple is used as a symbol in all these mythologies? But why? Because depending on the taste ... I Particularly I don't like apple. Yeah, but what does it look like? It, Symbolically, what does it represent? The heart! It is the symbol of the heart! It is in this divine heart, by Freya, that represents divine love, which resides immortality. If you lose this capacity Freya has to channel divine love through the heart, You lose eternity. That is, their eternity It was a constant achievement, Through the heart of Freya, which can be lost.

And they, in fact, in a certain Moment will lose her. So the giants get there on time. One day, woke Wotan and Frigga, his wife, lying on the prairies, as they were, because they had no residence until then, When they look, the castle is there. Indescribable, gigantic, wonderful! Everything they had dreamed and something else. And the giants there ... payment day. And now? How to do? Exactly on time. Then Wotan tries to deceive ... - Look, it is written there on your spear and signed! You have established this pact with us. And Frigga, who was

his wife, is in a super difficult situation because she was the lady of the pacts. She had to check and enforce the pacts, But it turns out that Freya was your sister and she didn't want to giver her away. So it was a delicate situation and the very existence of the gods threatened. Then it is that ... what do we do? What we don’t do? Call Loki! It was the one who put me in the confusion. Loki or Loge, here he comes! - And now? What do we do with it? You are responsible and you

need to find a solution. He always tidies up. - Wait there that I will walk around the world and I will look for something that these two want more than Freya. There is Freya, the guardian of the apples and of eternity, of eternal youth. So, Loge or Loki walks through the world and can't find it, he can't find it ... Until he hits, where? There at the Nibelungos house. The gold of the Rhine, the magical gold of the Rhine, And lots of gold beyond that. He says: - Well, it can be ... those giants They

are ahead, they are ambitious ... Who knows? Maybe with all this gold they will forget about Freya? It may be that they want to change. Hence he immediately returns to Asgard, and Wotan is already without patience with all that, not knowing what to do. He arrives and says: - I found a solution! And the giant without patience too ... - What solution?! We will take Freya and it's over! - Calm down, there's something you will like More than Freya: The Gold of the Rhine! And, besides the gold of the Rhine, all the gold that It

was excavated in the Nibelungos mansion. A mountain of gold. Then the giants think ... - Well, Wait there ... The Gold of the Rhine, that they knew it was endowed with powers Magicians, and another mountain of gold ... - Well, wait, let's think, let's calm down, Let's review the terms of agreement! But how much is this gold? - It's very gold. - We only accept in a condition: If this gold, huddled in front of the goddess Freya, fully cover her figure, such that we don't even see a hair, Because if we see a golden hair

From Freya, we will prefer her. And then, ok, interesting too, symbolic, When the riches of the world, which are gold From the Rhine, totally covered divine love. In such a way that Don’t even see a hair. A age of decay begins, a Materialistic era, an era of proofs. Well, so they agree and you will see that the two will leave, Wotan and Loge himself, for the dwelling of the Nibelungs. Disguised, they go there To try to find Alberico And try to get this gold from him, because he won't negotiate, they will have to take it.

They get there, Lodge and the saving solution, go down the bifrost arch, which is the rainbow, And there go to the home of Nibelungs ... both are there. When they get there, after entering, They realize the slavery in which they lived The dwarves, a horrible thing! The dwarfs under the whip Collecting gold non stop! Then when they arrive They can talk to Alberico. And Alberico gets very flattered to see the king of the Gods in his home. - Ah I came here because I heard of your treasure, so great it is. - Ah, that's good!

The king of the gods in my house! flattered by honor. Odin looks at a corner and sees the magical helmet that makes him invisible, Which was a work of art, so well built. He says: - Wow that helm wonderful! I have never seen one like that! - It really is very beautiful, my Brother who made and has powers! In this moment, Loge, who was very smart, Look at that and ... brilliant idea! - Come on Odin, you're kidding, You have half a dozen of helmets More beautiful than this one! I must have about twelve, at

least! This is a banal helmet, it has nothing! Are you wanting to compliment the dwarf? Are you wanting to flatter? It's a vulgar helmet! - You are unmeriting my helmet? It is the most beautiful on earth! - You're kidding! The simplest of my helmets must be better than that; Wotan's then doesn't even compare. Then the angry dwarf: - But you don't know the powers that this helmet has! - Powers is it? What powers does it have? - It makes me invisible. - Big Deal! You are already so small that Invisible will not make any difference.

- No but that's not all! - What else does it do? - It makes me transform into anything! Want to see? Then he puts the helmet and if transforms into a huge dragon, playing flames for all corner. The gods hide. Then he goes back to his form: - Do you see? Then Logi says: - Yeah ... more or less ... it didn't convince me much. - Why it didn't convince you? - Turning Dragon is a very Common thing, you have to agree. Everyone becomes dragon; expand, grow, is very easy, Any common wizard can turn into

these huge animals. I wanted to see if you can, with this helmet, a much harder thing, which is turn into a very small pet. This I wanted to see! Then yes, I respect your helmet if you can do this! - Ah leave with me ... Then he puts the helmet and becomes a frog. Oh no Without even thinking, Loki put his foot on the head of the frog And gets his helmet, pulls out everything and ties him up. Then he comes back to his form, when the Helmet is torn and is made prisoner. It looks

a lot like the cat with boots, remember? More or less the same argument. Then he imprisons Alberico. Alberico says: - What do you want? - We want the helmet and all the gold from the Nibelungs. We hope you will take your dwarfs and climb the Bifrost arc for us to take everything to Asgard. Then Alberico thinks - well that's okay, if they don't Take the ring, I reconstruct everything. Stay in his mind. Then they go up. They climb the bifrost arc. When they get up there Giants are already super impatient. Then they put the gold

in front of Freya. And put and put and put ... They make a golden mountain in front of her. There is still missing, you can still see a little From her hair, then put the helmet. It looks like everything is ok. They look, They examine that golden mountain. Suddenly they see that there is a little hole, where you can still see the eye Freya shining back there. - No, with this little hole its not good. Need more gold. The only gold they see is the Ring that is on the finger of Alberico. They say, "It's

this ring, you can give." Alberico says: - The ring no, at all! Do that scandal ... They see that the ring should have something special. Take the ring and fit in the there. In the meantime, it is interesting, Because when Wotan gets the ring, feels that it has something special. He himself feels drunk by the power of the ring; He himself hesitates to deliver the ring; He himself goes through his proof. Here comes the goddess of the earth, the goddess Gerda and says: - This ring will be a curse for Who has it, therefore, give

it away. Alberico himself says: - Cursed of the one who has this ring. And so the ring, which was already coming from a gold that already It was in itself damn, it is doubly cursed. And then it is placed in that Small crack and no one sees Freya anymore. The giants are happy. Only before they leave Taking their reward, The ring already produces the first victim. Each one wants to have a ring for him, the two giant brothers. They start fighting and fighting and fighting. And Fafner Kill his own brother and take the ring to

him. And then Odin turns him into a dragon And sends him to a cave on Earth, where he should keep this ring. He goes down to earth and stays, So keeping this wealth. This damn ring, which brought disgrace. As soon as they received it, a murder happened. One of the brothers died. And then, Fafner is transformed in a dragon and stays in a cave on earth keeping this damn richness, This wealth that brings so much misfortune and that will not cease to bring evils while it doesn't find again your place on the Rhine bed. That

is, things do not cease to generate evils while they don't find their place. That is, justice, when everything does not finds its place, as Plato said. So this is, more or less, the height of the story we are, passing the scenes more ... Payment: Delivery of the ring ... To the dwarves; This is Freya, they are Seeing that they are dragging. I am always calling the giants of dwarfs, these are the giants. FAFNER AND FASOLT. And the dragon. This dragon then, The whole life, while Alberico lives, he plot A way to get this ring from

this dragon. He Can not. Dies and it doesn’t happen. Your brother, who was a blacksmith, is Living very close to the dragon cave and trying to find a form to take this ring from this dragon. As a dwarf, coward, weak, small, How do you steal a dragon ring? He keeps imagining that he would have to get someone to do this for him. A hero, a grand being, that could do this for him. And it expects to achieve this. By living very close to this dragon's cave. As I spoke to you, Dragon keeping riches everywhere in

mythology. Dragons are considered the forces of nature, This power of nature that at a given moment is challenged when Things are taken from their proper place. So it's very common, you remember the King's Arthur myth, when Merlin summons the dragon's breath So that Uther change and can unite with Igraine. Always this force of nature that can be manipulated, can be used in certain moments by men, and keeps all the material riches of the world. Anyway, here once again the dragon ... You remember that even in Chinese tradition how curious ... on the other side of

the world, In China the dragon with a ball in hand, that represents the manifested universe. That is, exactly the forces of nature. The forces of the manifested universe, that can be invoked, can be worked intelligently, but that can cause very badly to One who doesn't know how to live with them. Can cause a lot of destruction, that is precisely everything that happens when we act against nature. You are playing with the dragon's breath. So that is our history was until then. Then the second part begins. The Valkyrie. It's nine and this is Wotan's favorite. Brunilde.

It is the bravest, the most incorruptible, But it's curious because they were goddesses, daughter of this earth goddess, that is Gerda with Wotan, And because they are goddesses, they had not much knowledge of human nature, of the limitations of the human being, of suffering human, glory and pain of the human being. At one point they had to go down, fall among men, which is like a divine soul that the man will have to marry At one point. At one point she will have to marry a human being. One of those Valkyrie became human. Then you

will realize that it is the thread of life, which drives in this direction. In a way, it was like Wotan knew since the beginning already, everything that was going to happen. And he confesses to her, That from the beginning he already knew what was going to happen. It seemed absurd to men, But for him it was a plan that was designed since the beginning of time. So this Valkyrie and her sisters, there are nine in total, They were responsible for taking the warriors, heroically dead on the battlefield, and take them to Valhalla. When a man

saw a Valkyrie he already knew, he was going to die. I was going to die gloriously, So it was an honor. It was the best view a man could have. It meant it would have a glorious death and would supper with Wotan in Valhalla. At one point, These valuquias are called For a very special mission. This is what we will see in Second part here of the drama. Wotan, he was saddened by the lack of level of men. Midgard was inhabited or by twisting dwarfs, of a dubious character, too weak, or by men who lived

on the surface, a little better than dwarfs, but also very vile, very rude, very focused simply for material survival, instinctive, Vile. These men were called neidings. These neidings, who were ordinary men, They were men who had no chance no honor, no chance to fight next to him so he can fight the giants at Ragnarok. They were unworthy men. Men without Glory, without honor, without greatness. He dreams of a better humanity. And he keeps wondering how it could be. He takes the shape of a wolf, Walse or Wolf, And walks through the forests of the world

looking for a woman who was above average, that was a little more noble, a little more worthy and honored, with whom he could raise children. A physical woman. This for the gods would be considered the maximum of unworthiness, because humans were considered very rude beings. And he finds a woman ... old myth isn't it? Of the Virgin, pure, noble, high, that conceives of a divine being, He finds this woman, who was a very special woman, and joins her. And when joining her, like Welse or the Wolf, He has two children, who are known like Welsungos,

sons of the wolf. Two twin brothers, two twin souls: Sigmundo and Siglinda. Not only does he have these two children ... ... here is very similar to Greek mythology, your wife, you remember As Hera pursued forever The infidelities of Zeus? Nor is it not easy to deal with Frigga. She constantly pursues; He protects his children, protects his human family. And he educates the boys, He lives with them. So constantly he goes with his son, Sigmundo, for the forest to hunt, to teach him. This mythology of the wolf is also very known. The one who howles

for the moonlight. You know that the moon has no light of its own; the light of the moon is the sunlight fallen on the night of time, As if man perceived the solar light in the black night of time. That is, the light of the Spirit in the night black of matter. And howl to it, recognized. So this is a symbol of a very Spiritual being, albeit lying on the night of time. You will see that in Rome There was a whole brotherhood, that was exactly the confraternity of the Warriors Sioles, that dressed with wolf

covers. The wolf was considered a special animal in several mythologies. So this is Sigmund, who has a twin sister, who is Siglinda. When he goes out with his father to hunt, to howl to the moon, through the forest, And all that the Father teaches him - The idea was to create two Very special human beings. At one occasion, those neidings, which was that envious, rude, bestial humanity - If there is one thing that they couldn't stand it were Welsungies. Why is it that for a rude man, a noble man is unbearable? What do you think?

Do you realize that they greatly expose their mediocre aspect? The nobility bothers too much because Consciousness is born by contrast. If you only have mediocrity, None of the mediocre will be able to realize how mediocre they are. But if you put a nobleman in the middle of the mediocre, for the contrast You can see yourself. I always play with my students, of that day, when was a child, you arrived at school, Everyone I think had this experience, or almost everyone. You studied for proof and your colleagues were furious with you. Because if no one had

studied, Everyone had taken zero, It was the teacher's fault, isn't it? If you studied, you expose the whole class because it shows that it was possible to take a note. It was possible! The others, They were lazy, weren’t they? That is, when someone has value exposes mediocrity. There is a modern writer, who is Steven Pressfield, that he talks about it very well, I find it very interesting. He says there is an agreement tacit for mediocrity. When someone reacts is taken as a traitor, and this reaction is often aggressive. So it happened at this historic moment

... The Welsungos were hated by all Because their nobility exposed the weakness of the others. Last year I gave a lecture On the Art Day I showed that movie "Amadeus"; showed salieri, Remember this passage? Salieri suffers terribly because the Greatness of Mozart exposed his mediocrity? Exposed his smallness. So it's always like this. Historically it is always like this. It shows all the time the greatness that makes us small. This says Salieri about Mozart. It's more or less the same thing. Then these Welsungos brothers were hated. It was a small family hated by all. On one

occasion, while they were in the forest, the house was invaded, killed the mother and kidnap their sister and disappear with her. And when they come back, they are attacked. Then they can separate the father of their son, in such a way that they no longer meet; That is, completely destroy the family. They try to kill the boy, they can't. He runs away, frowns in the forest and you're done. Separate, destroy the whole family. The brothers never see each other again. The father never sees his son and stays that way and the years go by. And

the son, then, is this Sigmund, Walks around the forest looking for the father, Looking for the sister, because the mother is dead. He seeks to find someone from his family And, besides, to complicate, all Every time he arrived somewhere That there was some injustice, he interfered. And benefited, and supported, and it ended that all turned against him; revolted, By force, by his heroism. And he is making enemies all the way. He arrives in a place, where there was a young woman who was being forcibly married, he interferes. The brothers all come against Him, he kills

all her brothers. The young woman is still against him at the end, Anyway, it's endless confusion. He keeps getting into confusion exactly for his habit to be wanting to put yourself On the side of what is fair In a world where the justice did not exist. It turns out that everyone turned against him. So after walking, a lot searching, already exhausted, already kind of hopeless, One day Sigmundo arrives, at night, in the heart of the forest. There was a duty of hospitality, very respected In several of these cultures of the past. He expected to find

someone, a small peasant, someone who could give him shelter for a night, because he was exhausted, hungry. And he finds a little house. And this little house glued to the trunk of a monumental tree, that he had never seen anything like it, which was exactly the Freixo Yggdrasill, That tree that unites all the worlds. And the house was leaning against it. Then he looks at that little house, a little of light inside, it seemed to have fire. He says, "I'll knock, maybe they take me?" Maybe they let me stay the Night and leave tomorrow morning?

Then he knocks. When he knocks a young woman opens the door. He gets a little impacted. They don't recognize. They are identical to each other. They were twins, but they don't recognize themselves. But automatically feel Something special for each other. And she says her husband had left to hunt, but for sure when he arrived, for the duty of hospitality, would allow him to spend the night there. So he should wait a little. And soon her husband, which was a Very brutal hunter, Hunding, arrives. And Hunding, which is not silly, when he arrives And look, sees

that the two are each other's face. Very similar. But, finally, invites the young man to sit at the table and start talking. Sigmundo, after much walking, knocks at a door and finds siglinda, his sister, And they don't recognize themselves after so many years. Sit down with the brutal giant, Hunding. Siglinda had been obliged to marry this citizen. He was a very rude man, very vulgar, of a family of men very rude and very vulgar. She had been forcibly married. Forced to this marriage. And lived very unhappy.She was a Welsunga And this man was a rude

man, an ordinary man! And then, when your unknown brother sits At the table, your husband begins to ask questions And he begins to identify himself, very innocently. He says: - Well, I'm a Welsungo, I am the son of the wolf, I have walked through the earth looking for my father, looking for my sister. I recently passed by a house I struggled with several brothers to be able to save a young woman, many died, I was wearing out a lot with all that, I have been walking. And during this time the hunter is getting enraged. And

tell him: - Look, I'm a deadly enemy Of all the Welsungos! I used to be Part of this family whose brothers you killed. I was one of the cousins that arrived To avenge the death of my cousins. I hate the Welsungos, so I will fulfill my duty of hospitality. Tomorrow, after you have landed at my house, which I have a duty to receive you, You try to turn around to find a weapon Because I will fight with you to death. Tonight you are fine, but find a weapon. Because as soon as the day rise, I

will challenge you to death. ' And so it is done. He goes to his room, asks for his wife serve to serve him a hot drink. So siglinda, who watched all this and already was madly in love with the young man, that she didn't know who he was, and he For her too, of course. This is when he identifies himself: "I am the son of Welse ... 0: 49: 05.930.0: 49: 08.660 I am the son of the wolf." It was the worst thing he could say. The worst thing a man could be in this context.

Here is she. She puts on her husband's drink A potion for him to fall asleep deeply. While he falls asleep deeply, she Go to the living room to talk to the outsider. And tells him about her unhappiness; how she had been stolen Even when very young; how unhappy she was and had been forced to this marriage. And worry about him, because in True he needed a weapon, and she knew how he could get a gun. There, in that despair, he Remember that his father had said that at the most desperate, your father, the wolf, Wotan

himself would send For him an invincible weapon. And then the two are talking in the room, And he tells her this story, that your father had promised for him an invincible weapon. She says: - Look, when I married, in the middle of that terrible ceremony, where I was forced to get married, a stranger entered my house In the middle of the ceremony, a man with a hat with a fallen tab, a very strange man and this man, not saying anything, He penetrated the house and dug a gigantic sword that he brought in this tree, to

the cable, And simply said that one day it would come A hero who would remove this weapon from there. And everyone has trying and no one can take it. Curious isn't it? An Excalibur Scandinavian! Exactly the same symbol. The symbol of Will stuck in the axis of the world. Wotan's sword. That was predestined to Sigmund. Then she says - why don't you try? Many already tried, maybe you can! There Sigmundo, with all determination of those who imagined that was really an inheritance of his father, go there and can take the sword Nothunga out of axis

of the world. The axis, the Mundi Axis, as it is called. The axis that unites all the worlds and the Sword of the will that was nailed. A divine sword, that is, a Divine will very powerful. And then he takes this sword and takes his Sister and decide to escape both. Hopelessly in love, they decide to escape, knowing that her husband would come after them and that the fight would be terrible, they couldn't escape. And they go out, run away and spend that night together. And when Hunding wakes up the next day, Of course notice

that his wife had been stolen, That was a very predictable thing, he goes after them. And this is happening on Earth. That is, the man managed to wake up On himself the Will, he found his soul mate, But this man, to become a hero, He still needed to find something else, He needed to find a divine, superior soul. So for those who watched King Arthur's myth, You remember it was very common for heroes to die and their children continue their saga. It was the spell of transmutation. So Uther turns Arthur, Lancelot becomes Percival, And here

will happen the same thing. Sigmund is not yet the perfect man to the saga that was ahead. He needs to join a Divine soul, to a divine being. He needs to find what of Divine exists in him, That is, he is reborn purified in his son. The son of this union between two pure souls, Two souls, daughters of the gods. So he unites with Siglinda And she gets pregnant with a child. There in the sky, what was happening at Asgard? Wotan calls his favorite daughter, Brunilde, the most perfect of Valkirias, The brave, the most intrepid,

and says: - Look, there will be a terrible fight, a fight between my son, who is still a young man, very young, Sigmundo, And this peasant, which is a brute and much stronger than him. I want you to protect him, I I want you to save my children. And she doesn't think much. She climbs on her horse, Grane which is one of the most beautiful from Wagner's piece, The Cavalcade of Valkirias. She climbs on her horse, Grane, and goes away. She doesn't think twice. Only halfway, while She is on her way, comes Frigga and says:

- Look, no, you can't Interfere, there is a pact there! She was married, she had a marriage pact. She leaves her own husband to join her brother. This breaks with all the laws of the earth. I am the guardian of the laws of the earth And I won't allow you to protect these two. You have to let them on their own luck. They broke up with the laws of the earth and have to collect the fruits from the earth. That is, the punishment for what they did. I will not let you interfere. You are going

against your own Laws that are written in your spear. She had a spear, which was Gungnir, where all the laws of the world were written. - You can't oppose to it. So I do not allow you to interfere. Frigga, like the one that made the bridge between Wotan, the spirit world and the world, was the guardian of these pacts, of these laws, which had to be fulfilled for good human order. And also, just as You will see there in Greece, the Hera, which so often pursued the heroes, but it was also responsible for their elevation

to a condition of nobility. Héracles himself, who was the glory of Hera, If he weren't so persecuted by Hera, He wouldn't be what he was. In the same way Eneas, very persecuted by Juno. If it wasn't, he wouldn't be what he was. Here also Frigga occupies this role as she they were submitting Sigmundo to a proof, For him to purify himself and become the perfect hero. It is always responsible for the tests, this lady, this lady of the pacts, that accompanies the greatest god. So she doesn't allow it and Wotan already had sent Brunilda to

the world. Call Brunilda back and says: - Look, don't interfere! - But how so? - Do not interfere. There is a pact that was broken, There are laws that were breached And you cannot interfere. This young woman broke with a bridal pact, And she joined her own brother, Anyway, there is a series of elements that I cannot interfere. She has to fulfill her destination. And Brunilde, who is A curious moment, because you will realize that Wotan already knew that, She lives here a very old myth, which is like the myth of the fallen angels. She

rebels against her own father, which was an unthinkable thing. A Valkiria was the extension Odin himself, from Wotan himself. She rebels against her own father, She does not understand justice of that. She no longer had a heart cold and distant from the earth, She had learned to love men and their dramas, their sufferings, And it makes her having to live among them. And she then goes down and decides to disobey her own father. When she arrives, she Finds Siglinda Sleeping In the knees of Sigmundo, she says: - Look, you will lose the battle! I can

not do anything And there is not much what I can do. He says: - So it's better that Siglinda Die, because we die together! She does not allow him to kill Siglinda. He says, "No, let me take care of her!" And then Hunding comes, The battle begins between the two And as the sword was a divine sword, It is the divine Will forged from a divine steel, which is Notung, could not be overcome, Sigmundo begins to take advantage. But suddenly in the middle Odin himself arrives and puts its Gungnir spear in the midst of the

battle. And when the notung sword hits In the spear, it breaks in half. That is, it´s gone that could not be broken. That desire that opposed the laws of the world, it divides itself, It breaks. And the sword fall broken in two pieces, And the two die in this combat. Both Hunding and Sigmundo himself. And then, automatically, Brunilde Get the young woman Siglinda, Go with her to her sisters And asks for help to protect the young woman, pregnant woman who was already expecting a baby. And she knew that there would be a very special being.

She leaves then, goes to her sisters; This is the moment when she arrives with Siglinda with the other Valkyrie. Valkyrie do not understand, They didn't have what she had She had warmed her heart to approach it to the hearts of men. They are insensitive: "You're breaking Odin's orders!" We must abandon this young woman. You are protecting? What are you doing? You went crazy! And she no longer can go back. Her fate and that of men is one. And she decides to help Siglinda at any price. "Where am I going to put this young woman? A

place where no one can hurt her? 0: 57: 49.120.0: 57: 54.040 Where no one goes, where no one will bother you; What place in the world will be safe? 0: 57: 54.040.0: 57: 56.770 Now, there is a place that is good. No one goes. 0: 57: 56.770.0: 58: 00.430 No one passes there. Close to the dragon cave. 0: 58: 00.430.0: 58: 02.080 Who will go into dragon cave? 0: 58: 02.080.0: 58: 04.630 It's where she will be safe." Then she takes Siglinda, takes the two parts of the notung sword, wrap in a veil, Put Siglinda

Pregnant there, Delivery to her the sword and says: - Look, deliver it To your child when he is born! He will know what to do with it. She already predicted the future. And after doing that, leave Siglinda protected, She meets her father to receive the punishment. That was already expecting. It's the moment then she stands before her father to hear her sentence. It's a beautiful engraving of Brunilde! Her representations are beautiful, all beautiful. And he decides to condemn her to the human condition. That is, it really becomes a fallen angel; It falls among men to

Live the experience of men. But more than that, She lives a little about the tale of Sleeping Beauty. She will be put asleep in the world and the first man who kisses her will marry her. She is horrified by it and asks her father who, at least, would be a worthy man, that is a hero. And he gives her that. Then put a wall of fire around her. High flames, of such way that only a great man, Just a hero, just a Welsungo would surpass that barrier. And she falls asleep lying on a stone, in

the middle of a wall of fire, waiting for the hero who would wake her up. It was already predestined. And in that cave then, next ... Who lived near the dragon cave? Realize that this question of the flames, As I told you, it's very associated with the mind, always, that is able to overcome this luminous fire, transmuting, Just a Welsungo. Who is able to join a Divine soul, like Brunilde's, Just a Welsungo. Then it was predestined who would join her. And, by the way, she asks her father for that all that was happening. And he

tells her everything that was happening since the beginning of time. This part is beautiful where he says: - Look, there is a ring that is in the wrong place and that needs to be returned to its right place. And for that a hero will come, a warrior will come, And for that this young man needed to be born. But for that he needs you. So everything is thought from the origin of the times. There is nothing by chance. Wotan himself tells her A little, because she asks, And he tells her everything He intended with that.

That that boy was already predestined to rescue the ring, return it to its place and generate a new humanity. Generate justice, everything in its place, Raise humanity to another level. And then she falls asleep in the middle of this wall of fire. And the time passes. Who lived near the dragon cave? Do you remember? Mime. So here she is in another beautiful scene. This work has many beautiful images, It makes you want to make paintings with almost all. And here comes Siegfried. It's just the third part. You are not very desperate, right? Now it goes

faster. Siegfried. In that cave, near the dragon cave, It lived mime in a very rough cabin. And he was always there, plotting something to try to defeat that dragon, thinks that woman. A beautiful woman, perfect, from a very above normal mortals, A very special woman. It was noted that there was not someone normal. He had heard of the Welsungos And she was certainly one of them. Expecting a baby. He says: - this child can be the hero I need To kill this dragon. I solved my problems. And besides, he was a blacksmith, Find the two

pieces of Notung, which was a work of art. He had never seen anything so perfect. Then he takes Siglinda, collects Sword, takes everyone home. She gives birth to the boy and dies. And he rises this child. And the whole lifetime is it trying to forge this sword. The sword that represents the divine will And he has no divine will. He is a weak. So he tries to forge, it breaks. He tries to forge, it breaks. Never can. It is a lifetime trying Unify the pieces of Notung. And the young man grows up. A beautiful young

man, perfect, a perfect Welsungo who, of course, had nothing to do with that dwarf. And the dwarf presented itself as his father. He didn't believe and said: - You have nothing to do with me, You are clumsy, you have nothing to do with me And tells my story. Until at one point, When he reaches a certain age, Then tells a time when he took fierce animals home Just to provoke terror in Mime, Because it gave him disgust the weakness of the Mime, cowardice, Then there is a certain age that Mime says: - Come here, okay,

I'm not your father; Your mother passed away when you were born And left this sword to you. He very quickly gets Unify the pieces of the sword. What Mime had tried the life full and never got it, He gets at first. He brings together, he restores Notung. He has the divine will. And then the mime says: - There is a mission for you, That is to kill a dragon and recover A ring that is inside. I just want this ring. The glory of the dragon's death are for you. Adventures? What a beauty! He was waiting

for it. Then endowed with this sword, the divine will, of the force, he goes to the dragon cave, And the dragon comes out ferocious, No one had never challenged him. He wags a battle very easily even, Because he was very brave, He did not know the fear, He didn't know what fear was. He kills the dragon. And curiously, by an old rite, that is common, And there are other stories in which similar things happen, He bathes in the dragon's blood. Only when he bathes in the dragon's blood, There is a leaf that falls on his

back, a little below the nape of the neck, a leaf falls and that point does not gets wet by the dragon's blood. Remember Achilles? Your mother dives him in the river and makes it completely invulnerable, Except for the heel, where she holds. That is, it is entirely endowed with the powers of nature, that he subjugates the dragon its powers of nature. He subjugates the powers of nature. He behaves at ease. But it has a vulnerable point. And just like Achilles, it's for that vulnerable point he will perish. When he bathes in the dragon's blood, that

he bathe in these powers of nature, He understands the language of nature And a bird tells him: - Look, do not deliver this ring to the Mime; He is planning to poison you. This man is clumsy, not delivered to him. And then effectively when He goes towards Mime, He sees that Mime has a cup for him, with a very dodging look, He realizes it was true what the bird had said. And then he ends up killing Mime, and continues to walk alone And that bird says ... ... and he feels very lonely, No family, anyone

... - I know a woman who is perfect for you. - Do you know? - Yes! A lady that is perfect. Born for you. Only you can marry this lady! - And where is she? - She's high on a mountain, dormant in the middle of a wall of fire. - Yes, more adventures! It's not that? For a hero of that size, The more adventures the better. And he goes up there and, effectively, very Easily crosses the fire wall. And it comes across Brunilde, sleeping. A woman so beautiful, so perfect, so great! Evidently the woman who

had been predestined to him. Your divine soul, because She was a goddess lying on earth. And he wakes her up, And the two are madly in love. He puts the ring on her finger and they live there and make that wall of fire their home. Our figurine later ... Let's pass our images. Here when he forges the sword; The Dragon, Dragon Figures has many; Brunilde's meeting. The beautiful Brunilde! And then he gives her the ring and, evidently when it comes to a hero, He has adventure needs. And she understands that: - Well, you need to

walk around the world, to make great things, I understand that, I won't arrest you here. So she gets inside the Wall of fire, as if it were your home, And he goes out the world living adventures. And then it is curious because, even in a certain moment, when he leaves, Your Divine Valkyrie Sisters They penetrate this wall of fire And ask her to deliver the ring for them to return to the Rhine because it would abbreviate Much the suffering of men. But she is contaminated, she is also involved in the fate of men, She is

also contaminated by desire. She considers that the ring is the symbol of Siegfried's love for her and does not deliver. This greatly complicates the situation. Then the moment her sister tries To take the ring from her and she refuses. She refuses to deliver the ring. Well, on one of those occasions then The fourth part of the saga begins. Which is the twilight of the gods, Already the end. You will realize that Alberico And Mime has just died, Alberico too, But they had a terrible desire, which is the desire of the dwarfs, It is the desire

of humanity to carry this ring. Have you ever stopped to think about what this ring will be? I don't know if you already saw that various traditions have rings Within which the man is stuck! You may have heard from Ouroboros, Sansara, of Jormeundandr himself, which is a Snake of the Scandinavian world, which is the snake that bites his own tail. It is the manifested world. It is the arrest of the manifestation, with your desires, with your illusions, with your fantasies. The ring is the ring of the manifestation, of the manifested world. With your deceiving gold,

with your desires, with their misleading possessions, With its passions, Within which man is imprisoned and that will not be released Until he gives up on those. Until he does not give up the material things, of the material world, the manifestation, Man does not break free from suffering. And it seems that everyone who comes in are contaminated for that same desire for material things. And then the last part begins, which is the twilight of the gods. Alberico, that little dwarf, that started the hole story, At one point he He had had a son, Hagen. And a

child not with any woman, But with a queen, Kriemhild, who was a queen of the gibichungos. She has two more children, Gunther and Gutruna, That are brothers of that Hagen, son of Alberico. And Hagen receives from his father the mission of avenging of the Welsungos. Everyone in this story Want to take revenge on the Welsungos and take the ring for you. And Hagen inherits this mission. That Envy, this hatred, this cholera of the father. And for that he will use his Two brothers, Gunther and Gutruna. To be able to involve, ambush, Because he knows that

the ring is with Sigfried, He knows that there is a welsungo still alive in the world and wants to recover this ring. So he plots with his brother ... He tells his brother Gunther, that was quite innocent, that there was a wonderful woman, that lived in a wall of fire, And that was the only woman who It was worthy of marrying him. Then Gunther, who wasn't that brave, says: - How am I going to enter a Wall of fire and catch a woman? - No, you can't, but you have a man that can come in

and take it for you. And then he says, "Well, is this man?" Who is it? And Hagen had managed to recover that helmet, Once the dragon was killed, he gets recover the helmet of invisibility, The helmet of change of form. He says: - Look, we have to take this hero, When he passes by, Make him put this helmet, take your form and cross this wall of fire like you. And claim this lady for you Because only this lady is worthy of you. And then convince your brother to practice this plot. And they plot then, when

SIGFRIED PASSED THERE, They would involve him in this plot. But how to convince Sigfried to Deliver Brunilde herself? The woman he loved, the woman which was his own divine soul. How to convince him to deliver that What was the most sacred to him? They can do this through a potion. Hagen's plot. So they expect Sigfried to go there And they call him very amicably To visit the kingdom, To visit the court, to Visit Gunther's castle, And there he is very well treated and formula With Gunther a Friendship Pact, a blood pact, where the two give

cut on the finger, together the blood, Anyway, make a friendship And in that Gunther gives him a drink, which was a magical potion, that makes him forget totally from Brunilde, and fall madly in love for his sister Gutruna. And he drinks this potion and This potion has effect. He forgets Brunilde herself, He forgets his own soul, Forget everything he had lived after he killed the dragon. That is, the evil that defeats Sigfried is forgetting. Remember Merlin talking about it? The greatest evil of man is forgetfulness. What makes him Forget your own soul, Forget what he

has divine. And he will really forget. So, Gunther, seeing that he had Fall in love with his sister, As it had been planned, he says: - Look, I have a condition to grant My sister to marry you! You will wear this helmet, take my shape, will cross a wall, will take a young woman who is There and will bring her to me. And he blindly does that. He doesn't remember anything. He goes and disguises him as Gunther with the helmet, crosses the wall, because only he could do this, He had a nobility for that, to

cross the wall of fire. When Brunilde sees, he's a Different man entering the wall. She complains to herself and she has no way to resist because that was the law: Who crossed the wall had the Right to marry her. She is taken with him to the kingdom And only when they arrives at the kingdom and he remove the helmet, She sees that she had been deceived, that Sigfried had taken her to another man And that Sigfried was with another woman. And she feels fiercely offended by that, wounded for this And she doesn't realize that the

hero had lost his memory, He had forgotten who he was and does not understand that. Then arrives at a certain moment, she reveals to Hagen herself - Hagen approaches her, Realizing her cholera, her revolt taking advantage of it -, herself reveals to Hagen which was Sigfried's weakness. He had a point that haven´t been wet by the dragon's blood. So they take Sigfried to a hunt And at a time when he bends down to drink water, He is murdered by Hagen. And moments before he dies, He recovers his memory. He remembers Brunilde, he remembers his past,

He remembers who he was, he recovers his memory And he dies with her name on his lips. And in this Brunilde arrives, takes the Ring, returns to the nymphs of the Rhine, which is what should have been done from the beginning, asks for a large funeral pyre so that Sigfried is incinerated. A great pyre, as it was worthy of a hero of his greatness. And then one of the beautiful passages too, that It is the funeral march of Sigfried, by Wagner, Which is one of the most beautiful things you have. This funeral pyre and Brunilde

Mount on her horse from Valkírias, Your Greine Horse, and throws herself inside the pyre with him. And the two set fire together, merge in one through fire. This luminous, vertical, transmuting fire, It fuses the two in one. Then Sigfried recovers the memory in its final moments and joins his divine soul. This devastating fire, there Up, Wotan was realizing him. He tells them to caught branches of the Freixo And put around the castle Asgard, around Valhalla Castle; around Asgard Because he knows that Asgard will set fire. And he waits. Was necessary. So this fire catches the

Freixo, on the axis of the world and ignites all the worlds. Incendures Asgard, the gods die, Almost all men die. And this world is reborn purified, reigning a pure God, reigning Balder. The world guided by Balder and inhabited by men Who are all like Sigfried, Noble men, bathed and purified in the fire. Men who joined through fire to your divine soul. Luminous fire of a superior mind, of a high mind, of a mind that has wings And, through divine will, passing through all the tests, Sigfried joins your divine soul and reborn purified in another world.

And so it is the twilight of the gods. The fire destroys and renews ... And there is our sigfried in the funeral pyre And a new world is created. You remember that for the Scandinavians There are still about three worlds ahead: Gimil, Vidblain and Audlang. That is, each time the man need to be reborn purified, The world will be reborn with him. Here is born a world of Welsungos. A world of men like Sigfried, as a sigmund and as a siglinda. Well, basically this is the story, How I told you very rich in symbols. Speaks

of the renewal of humanity Through values, the divine will, of divine love, the purification of the mind, of the verticalization of the mind, of the perception of the divine itself. This is the Renaissance of a new humanity. This is what this myth is about. The fusion, as I told you, Made by Wagner, takes advantage of original elements, There is nothing he invented. And the story is very rich. It is the history of itself man according to this tradition. For me it is one of the most beautiful myths That we recognize in its complexity and in

the promise it puts from a recreation of a purified humanity, of a purer man, more noble, and more divine. Logical that this suffered a lot of interpretations materialistic and very thick later, But in fact what Wagner wanted Saying was not about a physical race, As many later said, but of a moral race. A race of soul and not body. Of renewed men inside and not out. And as always interprets The way you well understand, As so many times has been done in history. But that's basically what I wanted to bring you And then I open

for questions. In fact, death itself is a passage, Including I played a video Before the last lecture in which the hero he dies and reborn purified. Now, Arthur does not die, Arthur lives in Avalon forever waiting for your knights to bring a good news And he reigns again in the world. Sigfried, yes, dies and reborn purified, Just like your father. Your father died; in truth He was reborn as Sigfried. Going through all the necessary evidence, He is reborn as Sigfried. Sigfried dies and is reborn as a be even purer in another world. It is as

if each new level was the death of consciousness to a plan and its rebirth purified to another. It is the old myth of the hero. Always have these passages. New Acropolis is an international philosophical movement, independent and non -profit, Based on culture, philosophy and volunteering. There are about 80 schools of philosophy applied throughout Brazil. Look for one near you, We'll be waiting for your visit!