A Little Bit About Wagner

I believe Richard Wagner was put on this earth to reveal Tecla Hashimoto.

Let me explain.

As we can see in this link from my Classic Tecla Site, Wagner's Brunnhilde -- as she appears in her Immolation at the end of his (Wagner's) epic tetralogy, Der Ring des Nibelungen -- bears much resemblance to Tecla and her (Tecla's) sacrifice (i.e., in her martyrdom in the dry riverbed of the Kamogawa River). Now I mentioned on that page that Brunnhilde's Immolation was for (according to Wagner's dramaturgy) "The Downfall of the Gods and The Redemption of the World Through Love," and that we may say the same of Tecla's Immolation -- at least according to the narrative sequence in my own memoir (which culminates here) and as described in my philosophy book (a preliminary study of which can be found here).*

Of course, a key difference between the redemptive sacrifice of Brunnhilde and Tecla is that Brunnhilde is a wholly fictional character -- based on early medieval German mythology -- whereas Tecla is an actual flesh-and-blood Catholic martyr who truly made this great and noble sacrifice.  Another key difference between Brunnhilde and Tecla (beyond their fictional/non-fictional aspects) is that Brunnhilde's Immolation was for the downfall of the German gods (again, according to Wagner's dramaturgy), while in Tecla's case (according to my own experience, i.e., my memoir), her immolation was for the downfall of the Japanese gods; although I would like to think Tecla's sacrifice extended beyond the borders of Japan to include all the world's false gods (including --- in her Asian backyard -- the false god of Chinese Communism).......

And this all reminds us of the Virgin of Guadalupe.  As I have mentioned on this link, there are many correlations between her and Tecla -- most significantly, the fact that both are pregnant women "clothed with the sun crying out in childbirth" (a la the Woman from Apocalypse 12) foremost among them -- but what I forgot to mention there is that the Virgin of Guadalupe brought about the end of the Aztec gods in Mexico, 364 years before, just as I have seen Tecla doing vis-a-vis the Japanese gods in Japan.*  (How did she do this?  Well, by quirk of Japanese grammar, nouns don't have number and so we can say "Kobe" meant the "Gate of the Gods" before the Kobe Quake and means the "Gate of God" after the quake.  Combine that with this experience (and the terrible abortion experience of "Naoko's" pregnancy that came before, with our "Hagen" -- a Japanese woman named "Lanie" -- going not for a golden ring but the ring of a woman's womb that contained an innocent baby......) and we have the beginnings of a new version of Gotterdammerung.

Now I do not know if there are any objections to the notion that the downfall of the gods of Japan occurred during the action of the Kobe Quake, but there was in Tecla's own era the idea in a series of earthquakes in Meaco (Kyoto) and Osaka that the Christians had a more powerful God than the Japanese, an idea even considered by the Emperor of Japan (a.k.a., Taikosama), as can be read here.  Now the original missionary to Japan was St. Francis Xavier, who arrived in 1549, and made it all the way up to Meaco.  A famous iconoclast, Xavier may have found it interesting that we have seen the downfall of the Japanese gods in the Kobe Quake.   As Richard Wagner himself once said, "The necessity for the downfall of the gods springs from our innermost feelings......"

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* With the part pertaining to the downfall of the gods in the Kobe Quake at the beginning of Chapter 2.

** Could it be the Virgin of Guadalupe has delegated this responsibility to Tecla?

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-- November 4, 2023, Feast of St. Charles Borromeo, BC, and Sts. Vitalis & Agricola, Mm

(Last updated 3/31/24.)