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This archetypal Wagnerian "scene among the gods" won't be "boring" for anyone who finds the philosophy of religion - and strangely enough, given that this is supposedly a work inspired by pagan, or at best by Buddhist/Schopenhauerian religious ideas, particularly the philosophy of the CHRISTIAN relgion - exhilarating, fascinating and inspiring. But, of course, people who find intellectual exhilaration in the Christian mysteries of the Incarnation, Redemption and so on make up a miniscule proportion of Mankind, so to that extent I CAN stand by my original statement that the "god scenes" are more "boring" than the scenes among the mortals. What the "god scenes" do - and the Fricka-Wotan scene most of all - is provide the superficially extremely DRY and ABSTRACT, but, on examination and meditation, immensely exciting THEORETICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL FRAMEWORK for the action of the "mortal" scenes.