Götterdämmerung

  1. Noun.  (context, Germanic mythology) The myth of the destruction of the gods in a final battle with the forces of evil; the apocalypse.
  2. Noun.  Any cataclysmic downfall or momentous, apocalyptic event, especially of a regime or an institution.

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