"Goetterdaemmerung"

Photo: Wolfgang Leander
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This image invokes in me an almost somber Wagnerian mood, Goetterdaemmerung, the twilight of the old Germanic gods.*)

And if I think of the Polynesians I can truly understand why they happen to revere sharks as godlike reincarnations of their ancestors.


*) I am not a Wagner fan; in fact, I reject him because he was a rabid antisemite.