Philosophical
What if seeing clearly costs you something?
In Norse mythology, Odin walks up to Mímir's Well, a source of deep wisdom, and the price for a single drink is one of his eyes. He doesn't hesitate. He plucks it out and drops it in the water. This isn't a story about suffering. It's a story about a very specific exchange.
I know that I hung on that wind-battered tree, wounded by my own spear... I peered downward, I grasped the runes, screaming I grasped them.— Odin, from the Hávamál
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The thinker
Norse God of Wisdom & War
Odin is the chief god in Norse mythology, known for his relentless pursuit of knowledge, even at great personal cost.
Based on Hávamál — The Poetic Edda (Sacred Texts), summarised and reframed by Insights.
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