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Alemannic depiction of Wodan, 6./7. century In the centre, inside a circle, the bearded figure of a man with raised arms can be seen. Recently, M. O. Speidel, in a study on Germanic iconography and mythology, was able to show that this is the very rare southern Germanic representation of the god Wodan. The attributes of Wodan are depicted in the outer ring of the decorative disc, in the form of stylised eagle and serpent heads. The fourfold sequence of eagle and serpent corresponds, as it were, to a fourfold transcription in the sense of "Wodan, Wodan, Wodan". The inner image shows the prince of the gods himself, seated with spread legs, oversized male member and six testicles as symbols of his procreative power, with flowing hair which he grasps with his hands. Iconographically, Wodan can be traced several times on Norse ornaments as a "spreader-sitter-hairstylist", often also in connection with eagle and serpent."