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MoonGoddess
Reader of Runes
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Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2007 6:08 am |
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Okay I will start off with the origins and you will have to look through the rest of the post in this forum plus in the Runes Dictionary for the meanings.
The origin of runes do not come from one single source but quite a few. The Elder Futhark is not an alphabet as such, as its staves do not start with ABC but F, U, Th, A, R, and K there fore calling it a Futhark. The first 24 runes are called the Elder Futhark is because these are the first runes recorded in History where all other runes have come from. The Runic letters come from the North Italic script. The system the Etruscans used.
The Etruscan culture was very influential, and their magic was the root of later European magic. Unfortunately the Roman Militarism swept through destroying it. Artistically the Etruscans influence can be seen wides swept through Europe in Celtic and Germanic metalwork of the first millennium BCE. The link between the Etruscan alphbet and the runes is known from 26 bronze helmets, dug up in 1812 at Negau in the Austrian Empire, and dating from the fourth century BCE. The helmet had runic inscriptions on them. Germanic words, including an invocation of the war-god Harigast (Harigasti teiva) in Etruscan script. In Tyrol around this time seers began to use these letters for divination, possibly following Etruscan practice. Some of the earliest runic divination-sticks were found at Kitzbuhel (: on its side above the u). This does not proof or disprove the origins of runes but many characters that became runestaves already existed elsewhere.
Pictographic symbols representing trees, tools and natural phenomena have been preserved in rock carvings and a few surviving wooden objects. Between 1300 - 800 BCE Late Bronze early Iron Age a large number of pictographic rock carvings, known as Hallristningar (Sorry don't have the script to put in the double dots above the a) where made in Scandinavia. A lot of stuff has been ignored due to being indicipherable.
It is certain that some of these symbols where used in divination before the creation of the Futhark. Runes as such came into being when some of these symbols were identified with corresponding letters of the Etruscan alphabet. This act of creative insight is symbolised in the Norse Legend of Odin. It seems that the runes as we know them were obtained through a precise ritual. His ordeal is recorded in Havamal (stanzas 138 and 139)
I know that I hung on the windswept tree,
For nine days and nine nights
I was pierced with a spear, and given to Odin
Myself given to myself
On that tree, which no man knows
From roots it arises
They helped me neither with bread
Nor with drinking horn
I took the runes
Screaming, I took them
Then I fell back from that place.
Odin is the God of Magic, Poetry, Divination and Inspiration.
I would not recommend creating your own ordeal as most shamans experience massive trauma to get there.
(Most of this information was in Nigel Pennicks book Rune Magic)
MG
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udit_r
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Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2007 3:35 am |
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Thanx for the detailed description on the origins of runes I appreciate your kind gesture, there is one more query could you please suggest what pack of runes are best for beginners/amateurs.
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MoonGoddess
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Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2007 12:33 pm |
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| Thanx for the detailed description on the origins of runes I appreciate your kind gesture, there is one more query could you please suggest what pack of runes are best for beginners/amateurs. |
It sounds to me that you are asking what Rune Cards you should buy, I am not really familiar with Rune cards although I do Own a set which were given to me buy a teacher. They are the Aquarian Rune Cards, the ones I have a pretty warn from lots of use but still have a fair discriptive picture on each card. I mainly use these when I do Runic Chakra readings, as they give me a better image as to what to look for. Other then that I have a set of Wooden Runes which the Runes have be burnt into them. They give me a better feeling then cards do. If I want a card reading I get out my Tarot Cards. Hope this helped you.
MG
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