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Wotan may refer to:
- Wotan, the High German languages variant of Wōden, the Continental West Germanic god corresponding to Norse Odin
- Wotan, the version of the god that appears as a character in Richard Wagner's opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen
- Wotan is the title of an essay on Wotan by Carl Jung included in Notes of the Seminar Given in 1928–1930
- a male given name
- Votan, a legendary grandson of Noah who migrated with his family to Mexico according to Francisco Nuñez de la Vega
- Operation Wotan, a WWII German panzer operation with the goal of capturing Moscow in 1941
- the Panther-Wotan line, a defensive line partially built by the Germans on the Eastern Front in 1943
[edit] Brand names and vehicles
- MV Wotan, a German tanker in service 1913-14 and 1915-19
- Wotan, the German code name for the World War II German radio navigation projects, X-Gerät (Wotan I) and Y-Gerät (Wotan II)
- A mountain bike suspension fork from Magura (disambiguation), first produced in 2007
[edit] Popular culture
- Wotan, the capital of Mars in Space Patrol (1962 TV series)
- The name of a series of books by Charles Whiting published under the Leo Kessler pseudonym
- WOTAN, the controlling computer in the Doctor Who serial The War Machines
- Wotan (comics), a villain who fought Doctor Fate and the Golden Age Green Lantern
- The god of Dwarves in the Disciples series of computer games
- Church of the SubGenius pseudo-deity JHVH-1 is sometimes referred to as Wotan
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