Siegfried thus becomes himself a Nibelung.” [369W-{6-8/48} The Wibelungen – Revised summer of 1849: PW Vol. VII, p. 276]
[370W-{6-8/48} The Wibelungen – Revised summer of 1849: PW Vol. VII, p. 276]
[P. 276] {FEUER} “Though doomed to death by acquisition of the Hoard, each sequent generation strives to seize it: its inmost necessity drives it on, as with necessity of Nature, as day has ever to dethrone the night anew. For in the Hoard there lies withal the secret of all earthly might: it is the Earth itself with all its splendour, which in joyous shining of the Sun at dawn of day we recognise as our possession to enjoy, when Night, that held its ghostly, gloomy dragon’s wings spread fearsomely above the world’s rich stores, has finally been routed.” [370W-{6-8/48} The Wibelungen – Revised summer of 1849: PW Vol. VII, p. 276]
[371W-{6-8/48} The Wibelungen – Revised summer of 1849: PW Vol. VII, p. 276-277]
[P. 276] {FEUER} “So that Hoard included in itself the means of gaining and insuring mastery, as also the one Talisman of Rule: the hero-god who won it first, and thus became a Nibelung partly through his power and partly through his death, left as heirloom to his race the active [P. 277] right to claim the Hoard: to avenge the slain and keep or win the Hoard afresh … .” [371W-{6-8/48} The Wibelungen – Revised summer of 1849: PW Vol. VII, p. 276-277]
[372W-{6-8/48} The Wibelungen – Revised summer of 1849: PW Vol. VII, p. 287; p. 289]
[P. 287] {FEUER} “The abstract Highest God of the Germans, Wuotan, did not really need to yield place to the God of the Christians; rather could he be completely identified with him: merely the physical trappings with which the various stems had clothed him in accordance with their idiosyncrasy, their dwelling-place and climate, were to be stripped off; the universal attributes ascribed to him, for the rest, completely answered those allotted to the Christian’s God. (…)
But that one native Stem-god, from whom the races all immediately derived their earthly being, was certainly the last to be given up; for in him was found the striking likeness to Christ himself, the Son of God, that he too died, was mourned and avenged, -- as we still avenge Christ on the Jews of to-day.” (…)
[P. 289] {FEUER} “In the German Folk survives the oldest lawful race of Kings in all the world: it issues from a son of God, called by his nearest kinsmen Siegfried, but Christ by the remaining nations of the earth … .” [372W-{6-8/48} The Wibelungen – Revised summer of 1849: PW Vol. VII, p. 287; p. 289]
[373W-{6-8/48} The Wibelungen – Revised summer of 1849: PW Vol. VII, p. 293-294]
[P. 293] {FEUER} … the legend went that once the Keeper of the Grail had really brought the holy relic to the Occident; great wonders had he here performed: in the Netherlands, the Nibelungen’s ancient seat, a Knight of the Grail had appeared, but vanished when asked forbidden tidings of his origin; -- then was the Grail conducted back by its old guardian to the distant morning-land; -- in a castle on a lofty mount in India it now was kept once more.
{FEUER} In truth the legend of the Holy Grail, significantly enough, makes its entry on the world at the very time when the Kaiserhood attained its more ideal direction, and the Nibelung’s
