The Hanged God Artisanal Edition / 18K Gold-Painted Page Edges.
(Strictly Limited to 39 copies in TOTAL [includes both versions of the book; with the 18K Gold Painted Edges AND the 24K Gold Leaf Edges] — 2022).

5.25 x 8.5 inches. 240 pages. Hardbound 90pts, Bound in 'Stagecoach Bark' Genuine Leather. Gold Foil blocking on cover and on rounded spine + Blind Embossing on the back-cover. Raised bands on spine. Bronze-colored Satin Ribbon, as well as, silver & black cotton head & tail bands.

Handmade Marbled Endpapers by renowned paper marbler Robert Wu. Fully Illustrated. Fine typography, printed on Husky Opaque Offset 160M archive-quality paper. Glued, hand-numbered bookplate, signed by the author inside.

Comes with a Slipcase wrapped in handmade Nepal paper (Gold color) made from the fibers of Lokta (a native Nepali plant, also called the Daphne Shrub or Lokta Bush). This paper is unique in its texture and is acid-free. Features a huge wrap-around flat-bed printed motif of Óðinn riding on his eight-legged horse Sleipnir (a custom rendition of the Tjängvide image stone depiction of Sleipnir).

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The Hanged God: Óðinn Grímnir by Shani Oates

Challenging former atrophied or outdated knowledge regarding Óðinn’s acquisition of the runes and the mead of poetry, this extensive and intense study revisits Hávamál, Vǫluspá, Skáldskaparmál, Grímnismál, Heimskringla and Ynglinga Sagas specifically, to unravel and reconnect crucial factors that collectively reveal a magical formula for rebirth and resurrection. These kennings have preserved the threads of mysteries pertaining to Rúnar entrenched in Taboo. Óðinn’s quest of discovery takes him through three historically attested trials as Rites of Passage that find parallel forms in other animistic traditions. His ordeals of Mound, Tree and Sacral Kingship together with an articulation of the role of Hamingja are hitherto connected.

Using a multi-disciplinary approach that includes forensic and ethno-anthropology, mythology, archaeology, folklore and etymology, previous speculations regarding Óðinn’s associations with sacrifice, penal codes and shamanism are shown to be flawed. Instead, for the first time, personal experience is combined with intensive research that provide plausible solutions to age-old puzzles, solving anomalies surrounding Scandinavian lore. A clear Cultus is revealed of a hidden elite totally focused on surviving Ragnarǫk via the application of arcane magics. New insights present the real location of Valhǫll, and explain Óðinn’s ancestral relationship with wolves.

Sacred cows are culled in a controversial re-interpretation of Yggdrasil, Sleipnir and Mímir based entirely within information drafted from obscure or overlooked texts. Original extracts interject the text, adding substantial weight that fully support the conclusion offered. Songs and charms, giants and dwarves, cauldrons and manna, totemic beasts, burial customs, fear of the dead, their propitiation and the dead that walk, slaying, sacrifice and tribal mothers feature in this expedition into the past to discover real identities for its key players, and real purpose in their deeds. By sorcerous enchantments, Óðinn traversed a magical pathway to ‘overcome Fate,’ his mastery of runic sorcery and necromancy is finally given cause.

¶ CONTENTS: Introduction / The Hávamál Cultus / Gold Mead: Elixir of Forbidden Enchantments / Of Mounds and the Dead that Walk / Yggdrassill: Dread Steed of the Damned / Riding the Gallows: Sorcerous Covenants / Appendices / Bibliography.