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The Barbelith Elder Futhark library - Ansuz

Lothar Tuppan

02:44 / 15.02.02

Ansuz
(proto-germanic: ansuz; Gothic: ansus; Old English: os; Old Norse: ass)

Also, I'm posting 5 runes all at once because I'm going to be in Calgary for a week starting this Saturday. 5 runes ought to get people through the next week and a half.

Rune index

Gek

02:55 / 17.02.02

My favorite...

On one hand, it means GOD- (I think that's the olde english) and MOUTH (in german...?Lothar?)
"In the beginning was the word...and the word was with God and the word was God..."

G.O.D.- The Grand Oral Diseminator - made so much sense to me when it was put into that perspective...the power of language to shape reality...in the end,it's ANSWERS

"Though shalt not have any Gods before me"- the big move from the fourth spot for the letter A to the first...(For more on that, check out the Hebrew creation myths found in the Gnostic gospels)

U know...I have so much to say about this rune...i'm gonna get my notes and post then. I'll be back...

Wyrd

18:31 / 18.02.02

The Old Norse Rune Poem
As
Estuary is the way of most journeys;
but a scabbard is of swords.

The Anglo-Saxon Rune Poem
Os
The mouth is the source of all language,
a pillar of wisdom and a comfort to wise men,
a blessing and a joy to every knight.

The Icelandic Rune Poem
God
Aged Gautr
and prince of Ásgardr
and lord of Vallhalla.

This rune to me signifies simply, "word", "mouth" or "God" (or specifically Odhinn). It's the runes' rune, in a way. The runes are about communication, and so is this rune. From those three keywords many meanings can flow depending on the configuration. It's a rune deeply associated with language, and like Odhinn, in order to get the runes you must sacrifice something. There's a definite quality of the Magician about this one too, as the meaning of the word "spell" has its origins in language and story-telling (OE. spellen, spellien: tell, relate).

cusm

23:22 / 21.02.02

While representive of Odin directly, this rune also refers more generally to the Aesir (Gods). Communication is the other primary meaning (mouth). Putting the two together, one uses this rune to communicate with the divine. Or more appropriately, to open communication with the divine. Opening is another primary use of this rune. As the element of Air, it affects the higher mind, brings about clairy of thought and reason.

Communication, opening, Gods, mental ability, command, clarity, breath, speech, skill.

I find this one good for meditation, for clearing the mind and opening in preparation for work.

We're The Great Old Ones Now

11:24 / 22.02.02

There's a similarity here with Cabala, as I'm sure you're all well aware. The Hebrew word for 'thing' (is it daleth?) also means 'word', and I think is a letter of the alphabet. No doubt it also has an esoterically significant numerical value.

Point being, the notion of words, symbols, and reality being missible or interchangeable runs across cultures. The principles of sympathy and contagion...hence the Judaic tradition avoids writing or saying the word God (G'd). The tradition leaks down into notions of blasphemy and not saying the name of an evil thing (The Devil, sickness, misfortune) lest it come to you.

I'm babbling. Forgive the interruption.

Naked Flame

15:42 / 22.02.02

To me this is the storyteller. It's the rune that 'speaks' all the other runes. It's also the trickster, because not all stories are true: and it's the magician, because a newly created truth begins in story and is spoken into being.

It's also communication, but one-way communication: speaker and audience. Thus, associations with performance, self-image, masks, rhetoric, crafted/heightened/magical language.

Nick... hmm. yes. new thread on that in a few when I marshal my thought(s).

Lothar Tuppan

01:37 / 25.02.02

Defense through creativity. Storytelling as a way of creating order for the chaos in people's lives and how to make sense of the darkness that would otherwise overwhelm them.

Poetry, stories, and songs as weapons against despair.

Storytelling as magic. Entry into the myths to find power and purpose.

Rev. Wright

22:06 / 25.02.02

The image is of a chord extending from the crown of my head, up into the Cosmos. Commune

I dream very vividly, and in the dreams I am found to hold information for people. Others are impressed with my gained knowledge and my ability to articulate it.

But having insight has a price. Isolatiion. My bond, link to others is distant, cold. My emotions are minor to my mind and mental capacity.

I can understand situations, see past the ignorrance, schemes, mystery that baffles others. My intuition guides me like a knife, to cut through the veil.

Do I see to much?

The world is in a tough place, and seeing it brings futility, futility brings depression.

People seem to seek me out in the material plain for answers to questions, insight to their lives. I hold spontaneous counsel. I help them, bring them understanding, a taste of my mind.

I am lonely/distant

My DNA is calling home, and for a while I am alien to my human self, as my perception rises high.

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