Why doesn't Odin use magic to regrow his eye?

[Symmachos-ZEUS/SHAITAN]

I would like only advanced members to respond, so I will keep the allegory. Those who know its meaning need no explanation.

Could Odin use his new power status to regrow his eye? Or if the eye grew back, would his whole journey lose its meaning?

Does Mimir's source have permanent effects?

Maybe a middle ground, so that he does not appear with a disfigured face when at least one person who loves him looks at him.

 

[Kouros Aionios]

I believe it is because the act of losing an eye was a sacrifice for greater knowledge. Once you sacrifice something you can no longer have it back, this is the law of nature. It could also be an allegory for the 3rd eye, sacrificing your physical sight or eyesight by focusing on your spiritual sight or your third eye.

 

[Acolyte Of Pan 666]

Perhaps it was the sacrifice of the “innocence” of ignorance. Once you lose the false perception (sacrificing ignorance to gain knowledge) you cannot gain it back. The knowledge could also scar you in a sense as some information about certain things can be disturbing. I also think it relates to alchemy. You have to sacrifice the old self to give birth to the new self.

So perhaps the “eye” Odin lost was his ignorance. You cannot gain ignorance back once you achieve full gnosis.