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This is my first Nordic Germanic runic/Elder Futhark guide book

 

I guess this is as good a place to start as any.  When I truly first started building the research project in earnest.  The point and the step between my past when I was gathering all the facts listed above this specific subject from world history.  I decided to instead of picking up the Edda, I would just read the books from the authors who had not only read the Edda but had come from stern and sometimes very interesting and open traditions for their tack on the runes.  I figured that if I gathered their information.   I would be able to get a birds eye view of what this thing called runes was and then be able to figure out exactly where they came from.

 

As I contineuied looking building growing, exploring, expanding myself into the writings, of just about every rune author I could get my hands on.  I noticed immediately that their where several keys that jumped out immediately.

 

The keys that I noticed

1.      key was that each tradition was so dogmatic that a change meant some horrible consequence.

2.      their was a continuity of definition.

3.      their was a non continuity of definition with emphases on tradition

4.      then I noticed a continuity of definition that was

a.       historical in base.

b.      and a continuity of definition that was tradition in base.

 

the more I worked the more I realized that the more I learned about the runes the more confusing and annoying they became.

 

The more I worked with htem, the less I knew and understood.

 

Then I was given the best advise a youth learning about the runes can get.  Follow the runes let them guide your learning and teaching.  You will learn more from application of how to read then you will by reading a book.

 

I then wanted to find out instead of the definitions I wanted to learn about the various traditions of the craft in the runic Futhark Nordic Germanic Celtic runic language and magical religious traditions.

 

The symbols in circle.  The definitions of that cirlce

  1. Fehu
    1. Fehu: priorities
    2. Uruz: strength and or the fuel
    3. Thurasaz: boundaries
    4. Ansuz: Communication, The start of the Learning process
    5. Raido: Journey foot physical
    6. Kannaz: Light, Torch, the beginning of wisdom
    7. Gebo: Partnerships connection working together
    8. Wunjo:  Emotion
  2. Haggalaz
    1. Haggalaz: The past
    2. Nauthiez: the Present
    3. Isa: The future
    4. Jera: Year, time, the cycle of life, from the smallest time measurement to the largest
    5. Eiwaz: Creativity
    6. Pertho: Travel by boat, train, plain, car. Business partnerships, business machines, gambling
    7. Alhaz: Instincts, the awareness of any and everything around you
    8. Sowillo: Knowledge gained through experience
  3. Tiwaz
    1. Tiwaz: warrior, arrow, the path one takes. Commitment,
    2. Bircano: growth, trees
    3. Ewaz: Movement on a large scale. How a planet moves, continental drift, external plan movement, celestial movement.
    4. Mannaz: Self. Totally and complest reliance on not only how but what is the self.
    5. Laguz: a glimpse into the big picture.  How does what the smallest thing do affect the larger picture
    6. Ingwaz: small planets, the smallest details of life.  The structure of how things work.  From the smallest to the largest how the machine works.
    7. Othallo: Home, Stability
    8. Daggaz: a day.  A rotation of the planet.  The end of a cycle the beginning of a cycle.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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