2022 First Hardcover Edition Artisanal Edition 24K
THE HANGED GOD
By Shani Oates
KEY DETAILS
Condition: Fine
Format: Leather, Approximately 5.25 × 8.5 in. (133 × 216 mm)
Published By: Anathema Publishing Ltd., Canada, 2022
Language: English
Limited Edition: 18/39 Copies Copies
Signed By: Signed by Author(s)
Illustrated By: Chris Undirheimar / Blood & Fire Ritual Art (BFR)
Collation: pp. 240; Fully illustrated, including colour and monochrome artwork.; Signed and hand-numbered limitation plate.
Dust Jacket: None, as issued, No Jacket
SKU: BTETM0002031
Shipping Info: Approximate Package Dimensions H: 12.5, L: 30, W: 25 (Units: cm), W: 2Kg
Tracked Shipping, Insurance Coverage as per Customer Request
DESCRIPTION
The Hanged God
Óðinn Grímnir
Volume I of the Óðinn Trilogy within the Northern Otherworld Series
By Shani Oates
An exceptionally scarce and lavishly produced Artisanal issue of Shani Oates's study of Óðinn, copy 18 of only 39 Artisanal copies produced, signed by the author and in the 24K gold-leaf edge state.
Published by Anathema Publishing in 2022 as part of the first hardcover printing of The Hanged God, the Artisanal Edition represents the highest specification of the edition. Bound in dark brown “Stagecoach Bark” genuine leather, with raised spine bands, gilt decoration and lettering, blind decoration to the rear board, handmade marbled endpapers by Robert Wu, and the page edges treated with 24-karat gold leaf.
The volume is housed in its striking publisher's slipcase, covered in handmade gold-coloured Nepalese Lokta paper and decorated with a large wrap-around representation of Óðinn riding the eight-legged Sleipnir, adapted from the famous image on the Tjängvide picture stone.
The publisher produced only 39 Artisanal copies in total, divided between examples having 18K gold-painted edges and the more elaborate 24K gold-leaf treatment represented by the present copy. The precise numerical division between the two states does not appear to have been published.
The limitation plate is numbered 18/39 in gold, signed by Shani Oates, and carries an additional manuscript inscription above the printed title.
A particularly attractive example of one of Anathema Publishing's most elaborate modern esoteric bindings, combining a very small limitation with hand-finished materials and a subject central to contemporary Northern esotericism.
Edition Note:
The Hanged God: Óðinn Grímnir was originally issued in paperback before Anathema produced its first hardcover printing in 2022.
The 2022 hardcover issue appeared in Standard and Collector's forms together with this substantially more elaborate Artisanal Edition. The Artisanal issue was strictly limited to 39 copies in total, incorporating both 18K gold-painted-edge and 24K gold-leaf-edge examples. The present volume is copy 18/39 and is in the latter 24K state.
The Artisanal edition differs materially from the regular hardcover issues: it contains 240 pages rather than 192 and adds genuine leather binding, raised spine bands, handmade Robert Wu marbled endpapers, hand-finished page edges and the specially produced Lokta-paper slipcase.
CONDITION, COLLATION & COPY NOTES
Signed: Signed by Shani Oates on the limitation plate
Variant: 24K Gold-Leaf Page Edges
An exceptionally well-preserved copy.
The genuine leather binding is clean and strong, with the raised spine bands, gilt titles, symbols and upper-board decoration remaining bright and sharply defined. Corners and extremities show no significant wear.
The 24K gold-leaf page edges remain attractive and well preserved.
Internally clean and bright. The handmade Robert Wu marbled endpapers are fresh and vivid. The text and illustrations are clean throughout, with no significant marking, staining or damage noted.
Signed limitation plate present and firmly affixed, numbered 18/39, with an additional manuscript inscription above the title.
Original gold Lokta-paper-covered slipcase present and in similarly excellent condition, with the large Sleipnir design well preserved.
Binding and Production:
Bound in publisher's dark brown “Stagecoach Bark” genuine leather, the upper board decorated in gold with an image of Óðinn, the rounded spine with raised bands, gilt lettering and symbolic devices, and the lower board blind embossed.
With bronze-coloured satin ribbon marker and contrasting head and tail bands.
The endpapers are individually hand-marbled by Robert Wu, their rich gold, orange, black and cream palette complementing the gilt binding and page edges.
Printed on Husky Opaque Offset 160M archival-quality paper, with fine typography and illustrations throughout.
The volume is preserved in the original publisher's custom slipcase, covered in handmade gold-coloured Nepalese Lokta paper, an acid-free traditional paper manufactured from the fibres of the Daphne shrub. The case carries a large wrap-around printed representation of Óðinn riding Sleipnir, based upon the Tjängvide image stone.
This copy retains evidence identifying it as the 24K gold-leaf variant.
Please see Photos as part of condition report.
REFERENCES
Anathema Publishing Ltd. — The Hanged God: Óðinn Grímnir, publisher's edition and production specifications.
Cyclic Law — Artisanal Edition description.
The Occult Library — bibliographical record for the Artisanal Edition.
SYNOPSIS
The Hanged God: Óðinn Grímnir forms Volume I of Shani Oates's Óðinn Trilogy, within Anathema Publishing's Northern Otherworld Series.
Oates approaches Óðinn through a combination of mythology, folklore, archaeology, anthropology, etymology and esoteric interpretation. Drawing particularly upon the Hávamál, Vǫluspá, Skáldskaparmál, Grímnismál, Heimskringla and Ynglinga Saga, she re-examines the familiar narratives surrounding Óðinn's acquisition of the runes and the mead of poetry.
At the centre of the work are three initiatory ordeals — Mound, Tree and Sacral Kingship — which Oates connects with death, transformation, magical knowledge and rebirth. The discussion considers Óðinn's relationship with the gallows and the dead, runic sorcery, necromancy, Hamingja and the concept of overcoming fate.
The book also offers deliberately unconventional readings of Yggdrasil, Sleipnir, Mímir and Valhöll, together with Óðinn's associations with wolves, sacrifice and ecstatic magical practice. Songs and charms, burial customs, giants and dwarfs, sacred kingship, the dangerous dead and the survival of older magical traditions are brought together in an attempt to reconstruct what Oates interprets as an initiatory Óðinnic cultus.
The volume is divided into:
Introduction; The Hávamál Cultus; Gold Mead: Elixir of Forbidden Enchantments; Of Mounds and the Dead that Walk; Yggdrassill: Dread Steed of the Damned; Riding the Gallows: Sorcerous Covenants; Appendices; Bibliography.
AUTHOR BIO
Shani Oates is an occult writer, researcher and practitioner of Traditional Craft, best known as the Maid and Matriarch of the Clan of Tubal Cain, the tradition associated with Robert Cochrane and later Evan John Jones.
Her writings examine Traditional Witchcraft, folklore, ancestral practice, mythology and the religious and magical traditions of Northern Europe. Her published works include Tubelo's Green Fire, The Arcane Veil, The Devil's Supper, Crafting the Arte of Tradition, and the three-volume Óðinn sequence comprising The Hanged God, Wolfs-Head and The Search for Óðinn. Anathema describes her work as drawing upon anthropology, philosophy, folk tradition and the arcane traditions associated with the Clan of Tubal Cain.
ILLUSTRATOR
Chris Undirheimar / Blood & Fire Ritual Art (BFR)
The book is illustrated throughout with atmospheric ritual and mythological artwork associated with Blood & Fire Ritual Art. Anathema credits the illustrations to BFR, while contemporary descriptions identify the artist as Chris Undirheimar.
Typeset, Layout & Design: G. McCaughry.
2022 First Hardcover Edition Artisanal Edition 24K
THE HANGED GOD
By Shani Oates
KEY DETAILS
Condition: Fine
Format: Leather, Approximately 5.25 × 8.5 in. (133 × 216 mm)
Published By: Anathema Publishing Ltd., Canada, 2022
Language: English
Limited Edition: 18/39 Copies Copies
Signed By: Signed by Author(s)
Illustrated By: Chris Undirheimar / Blood & Fire Ritual Art (BFR)
Collation: pp. 240; Fully illustrated, including colour and monochrome artwork.; Signed and hand-numbered limitation plate.
Dust Jacket: None, as issued, No Jacket
SKU: BTETM0002031
Shipping Info: Approximate Package Dimensions H: 12.5, L: 30, W: 25 (Units: cm), W: 2Kg
Tracked Shipping, Insurance Coverage as per Customer Request
DESCRIPTION
The Hanged God
Óðinn Grímnir
Volume I of the Óðinn Trilogy within the Northern Otherworld Series
By Shani Oates
An exceptionally scarce and lavishly produced Artisanal issue of Shani Oates's study of Óðinn, copy 18 of only 39 Artisanal copies produced, signed by the author and in the 24K gold-leaf edge state.
Published by Anathema Publishing in 2022 as part of the first hardcover printing of The Hanged God, the Artisanal Edition represents the highest specification of the edition. Bound in dark brown “Stagecoach Bark” genuine leather, with raised spine bands, gilt decoration and lettering, blind decoration to the rear board, handmade marbled endpapers by Robert Wu, and the page edges treated with 24-karat gold leaf.
The volume is housed in its striking publisher's slipcase, covered in handmade gold-coloured Nepalese Lokta paper and decorated with a large wrap-around representation of Óðinn riding the eight-legged Sleipnir, adapted from the famous image on the Tjängvide picture stone.
The publisher produced only 39 Artisanal copies in total, divided between examples having 18K gold-painted edges and the more elaborate 24K gold-leaf treatment represented by the present copy. The precise numerical division between the two states does not appear to have been published.
The limitation plate is numbered 18/39 in gold, signed by Shani Oates, and carries an additional manuscript inscription above the printed title.
A particularly attractive example of one of Anathema Publishing's most elaborate modern esoteric bindings, combining a very small limitation with hand-finished materials and a subject central to contemporary Northern esotericism.
Edition Note:
The Hanged God: Óðinn Grímnir was originally issued in paperback before Anathema produced its first hardcover printing in 2022.
The 2022 hardcover issue appeared in Standard and Collector's forms together with this substantially more elaborate Artisanal Edition. The Artisanal issue was strictly limited to 39 copies in total, incorporating both 18K gold-painted-edge and 24K gold-leaf-edge examples. The present volume is copy 18/39 and is in the latter 24K state.
The Artisanal edition differs materially from the regular hardcover issues: it contains 240 pages rather than 192 and adds genuine leather binding, raised spine bands, handmade Robert Wu marbled endpapers, hand-finished page edges and the specially produced Lokta-paper slipcase.
CONDITION, COLLATION & COPY NOTES
Signed: Signed by Shani Oates on the limitation plate
Variant: 24K Gold-Leaf Page Edges
An exceptionally well-preserved copy.
The genuine leather binding is clean and strong, with the raised spine bands, gilt titles, symbols and upper-board decoration remaining bright and sharply defined. Corners and extremities show no significant wear.
The 24K gold-leaf page edges remain attractive and well preserved.
Internally clean and bright. The handmade Robert Wu marbled endpapers are fresh and vivid. The text and illustrations are clean throughout, with no significant marking, staining or damage noted.
Signed limitation plate present and firmly affixed, numbered 18/39, with an additional manuscript inscription above the title.
Original gold Lokta-paper-covered slipcase present and in similarly excellent condition, with the large Sleipnir design well preserved.
Binding and Production:
Bound in publisher's dark brown “Stagecoach Bark” genuine leather, the upper board decorated in gold with an image of Óðinn, the rounded spine with raised bands, gilt lettering and symbolic devices, and the lower board blind embossed.
With bronze-coloured satin ribbon marker and contrasting head and tail bands.
The endpapers are individually hand-marbled by Robert Wu, their rich gold, orange, black and cream palette complementing the gilt binding and page edges.
Printed on Husky Opaque Offset 160M archival-quality paper, with fine typography and illustrations throughout.
The volume is preserved in the original publisher's custom slipcase, covered in handmade gold-coloured Nepalese Lokta paper, an acid-free traditional paper manufactured from the fibres of the Daphne shrub. The case carries a large wrap-around printed representation of Óðinn riding Sleipnir, based upon the Tjängvide image stone.
This copy retains evidence identifying it as the 24K gold-leaf variant.
Please see Photos as part of condition report.
REFERENCES
Anathema Publishing Ltd. — The Hanged God: Óðinn Grímnir, publisher's edition and production specifications.
Cyclic Law — Artisanal Edition description.
The Occult Library — bibliographical record for the Artisanal Edition.
SYNOPSIS
The Hanged God: Óðinn Grímnir forms Volume I of Shani Oates's Óðinn Trilogy, within Anathema Publishing's Northern Otherworld Series.
Oates approaches Óðinn through a combination of mythology, folklore, archaeology, anthropology, etymology and esoteric interpretation. Drawing particularly upon the Hávamál, Vǫluspá, Skáldskaparmál, Grímnismál, Heimskringla and Ynglinga Saga, she re-examines the familiar narratives surrounding Óðinn's acquisition of the runes and the mead of poetry.
At the centre of the work are three initiatory ordeals — Mound, Tree and Sacral Kingship — which Oates connects with death, transformation, magical knowledge and rebirth. The discussion considers Óðinn's relationship with the gallows and the dead, runic sorcery, necromancy, Hamingja and the concept of overcoming fate.
The book also offers deliberately unconventional readings of Yggdrasil, Sleipnir, Mímir and Valhöll, together with Óðinn's associations with wolves, sacrifice and ecstatic magical practice. Songs and charms, burial customs, giants and dwarfs, sacred kingship, the dangerous dead and the survival of older magical traditions are brought together in an attempt to reconstruct what Oates interprets as an initiatory Óðinnic cultus.
The volume is divided into:
Introduction; The Hávamál Cultus; Gold Mead: Elixir of Forbidden Enchantments; Of Mounds and the Dead that Walk; Yggdrassill: Dread Steed of the Damned; Riding the Gallows: Sorcerous Covenants; Appendices; Bibliography.
AUTHOR BIO
Shani Oates is an occult writer, researcher and practitioner of Traditional Craft, best known as the Maid and Matriarch of the Clan of Tubal Cain, the tradition associated with Robert Cochrane and later Evan John Jones.
Her writings examine Traditional Witchcraft, folklore, ancestral practice, mythology and the religious and magical traditions of Northern Europe. Her published works include Tubelo's Green Fire, The Arcane Veil, The Devil's Supper, Crafting the Arte of Tradition, and the three-volume Óðinn sequence comprising The Hanged God, Wolfs-Head and The Search for Óðinn. Anathema describes her work as drawing upon anthropology, philosophy, folk tradition and the arcane traditions associated with the Clan of Tubal Cain.
ILLUSTRATOR
Chris Undirheimar / Blood & Fire Ritual Art (BFR)
The book is illustrated throughout with atmospheric ritual and mythological artwork associated with Blood & Fire Ritual Art. Anathema credits the illustrations to BFR, while contemporary descriptions identify the artist as Chris Undirheimar.
Typeset, Layout & Design: G. McCaughry.
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