Season 9.2 · 18 Feb 20219 #15 How can sciences of history be real?- 20:01God of fire, as cunning as Hermes, he is below, above, and in between; he proposes Alberich's gold as an equivalent.
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Dominique Pagani approaches Loge, in Wagner's Das Rheingold, as the god of fire and cunning, an ambiguous figure he likens to Hermes, and even to Vulcan, calling him a "Germanic Hermes"12. He stresses his intermediate position: Loge moves between the underground forge and the world of the gods, "below, above and in the middle"3. As Wotan's counsellor, his "evil genius", he proposes paying the giants with Alberich's gold, which then serves as an equivalent43. Dominique Pagani also casts him, in present-day terms, as the prince's adviser, a "Séguéla"5. He returns several times to what Loge says: no being places anything above love, except Alberich, who preferred gold67. Finally, he comments on his reply "Durch Raub!", which proposes taking back the gold by seizure and which he compares, for its violence, to castration89. He also mentions him as the fire that guards Wotan's daughter10.
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