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Runes!! · Random Heathen Ramblings

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  Hey folks, welcome back to the podcast.
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  Talking about the runes today. My name is Jessie and thanks for
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  But today, we're, we're talking about the runes a little bit.
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  I mentioned earlier that You know, the Elder futhark runes
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  that we use a lot of Heaton's use nowadays in magical, and
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  esoteric divination type type stuff.
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  It. You know, the the history of the
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  runes is a little bit murky when it comes to the how they were
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  used magically. So a lot of what we do nowadays
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  is kind of a plethora of other information that we kind of
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  have. I think collected over the years
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  into doing the way we do it. We talked a little bit earlier
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  about how people would sometimes do.
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  What's called Rooms spreads where they will kind of lay them
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  out in a specific pattern? Other folks like myself prefer
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  the cast. Method where they will do, you
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  know, grab a handful and cast them onto a cloth or on to a
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  surface. There's also a single Rune
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  drawers, you know, just individual room.
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  Draws your kind of shake a bag or a box up, reach in there and
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  pull one out and that's, you know, what, you're supposed to
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  meditate or kind of think about or meditate on which I do for
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  myself daily. We talked a little bit earlier
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  about the historical backing of the Elder.
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  Futhark room. Just kind of a surface
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  scratching If you guys want to know more about the history of
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  the rooms, I definitely would encourage you to go to YouTube
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  and search for dr. Jackson Crawford.
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  He's a wonderful leading source of Norris language and myth.
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  He's a professor at that believe.
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  It's the University of Colorado, and he's in Colorado.
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  I believe is a forget Which F Colorado Springs area, but he's
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  been a professor in UC Berkeley. UCLA.
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  I'll really well accredited schools.
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  He's wonderful. He uploads videos every
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  Wednesday from you know, the historical parts of of Old Norse
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  literature. He's not heat and himself but he
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  comes from an academic approach to things.
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  Another great channel to check out would be an artery harger a.
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  Alright. Eh, eh eh ger and then he is
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  also So a he has, he has a lot of, he's a heathen himself, but
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  he also has academic backgrounds, that include
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  archaeology degrees in archaeology.
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  And so he's a wonderful source to glean from check out another
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  YouTube channel. From a friend of mine out in
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  East Texas. His name is Eric shervin, his
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  channels, Eric Ward. Weaver.
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  Sure when he does a show, every Wednesday on his channel, called
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  the Ravens call. So if you go to YouTube and
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  search the Ravens call, you'll you'll find some neat stuff over
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  there. His channel, he's a very
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  knowledgeable Heathen. He's actually the go the or
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  Chieftain over there at the tribe in his area.
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  His tribe is called the Creed gar folk.
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  So if you're an East, Texas and you're looking to meet up with
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  some, some heathens that are really well people.
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  Well-to-do good people might want to check out Eric's Channel
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  and email him through his contacts, all of which are
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  included in his videos. But so anyways, let's talk a
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  little bit more about the runes. And the Divination aspect of
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  things, you know, why do we do this?
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  Why why are the runes used for divination?
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  And, and my best answer to that? Is that, you know, Heathen re is
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  a is a path that is rooted in nature, and it's rooted in.
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  Very old traditions. And one of those Traditions, one
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  of those things that we, you know, glean from or try to work
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  from and then work with as heathens is the concept of our
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  weird and it's spelled w yr, d weird is something that you have
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  that. You can exchange it.
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  You can work with people to establish and continue and it's
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  basically the, the web of Destiny, the web of fate.
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  That we are all tied to in some way or another the things that
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  we do everyday adds to our weird.
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  So the things that are good that we add into that, well are going
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  to improve, not only our luck as we live as we live.
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  And as we interact with folks, but it'll increase and benefit
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  the generations that come forth from us, our Descendants, the
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  people who have had that will have Eyes with us and their
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  families that go on after we're no longer here on this on this
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  Earth on midgard. So the weird thing is something
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  that is kind of overlooked or maintained by what are called
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  the norns. And the norns are three figures
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  in Norse mythology, Three Sisters as you will similar to
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  what you have heard from Greek mythology.
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  Is that the sisters of Fate. So the three norns, Control the
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  past president future, you have ordered.
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  The, the first who is that which was, you know, that or that that
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  which was a has already happened, you know, the past if
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  you will and then you have a better than D which is that,
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  which is the the here. And the now this is where we
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  live. This is our, this is the realm
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  that we currently, you know, kind of deal with in and we, you
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  know, we can't change the past, but we can and try to effect.
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  The Here and Now by our deeds and by our actions, and then you
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  have schooled. Okay?
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  And schooled is what should or what will be the future.
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  So, we live in the now better than D and we look to do things
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  that will shape and sort of mold, the things that will be
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  and what can happen. So, in that respect and when
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  we're talking about the runes that and the Divination of using
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  the runs for divination and then the magical aspects of it, what
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  we're essentially doing when we work with the runes, is we see
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  what better than the the, the here in the now has going on and
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  we look to Kind of tap into the school, the the future, we look
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  to see what could be and what might be.
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  And then having that Glimpse or having that Insight of things
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  will help us to perform and do things now that will benefit the
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  outcome, you know, so we are not bound by Fate, other than the
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  fact that we have a faded day to die.
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  We have, you know, certain very poor, you know, poignant points
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  of hard. Lives, you know, kind of like
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  the highlighted Port points of Our Lives, that we absolutely
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  can't change, but we are not controlled by by Fate.
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  There's nothing that happens that we are just, you know, just
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  all kind of willy-nilly out here.
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  Hoping for the best, what are our deeds in our actions?
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  Have a very impactful role in the shaping of weird.
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  So when we work with the runes and when we cast the runes and
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  when we, you know, Divine with the runes and all this kind of
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  stuff. We are essentially trying to
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  bend the web's a bit. We are trying to form and shape
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  the web's to benefit ourselves benefit, our tribes benefit, our
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  communities and ways. And then things that will will
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  continue the good luck that is tied to our webs.
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  So the, you know, the it, again, it's a very long and complex
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  thing that nothing that we can nap.
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  Absolutely cover in one episode. But I did just kind of want to
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  go over with anybody that is curious out here.
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  You know, you see all these graphics online, images of the
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  runes. People always asking, you know,
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  what can I get a tattoo of a room that means this, that or
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  the other and it's a very hot topic, you know, the the
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  aesthetic of it all is very much popular thing for folks,
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  especially new heathens coming into this path.
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  They feel like they have to look apart.
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  They feel like they have to mark themselves in a way that makes
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  them stand out and I guess my my suggestion to that is is you
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  know, Beast be slow about that. Don't just jump on something
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  because you know, it's popular. You think it's going to make you
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  look better as a heathen, worry about your knowledge worry about
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  your actions to you know, educate yourself become
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  knowledgeable about this path that you're following.
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  Do the things that will work for your good and for the good of
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  your, your family, your clan, your tribes.
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  Okay, and then, As far as the other stuff goes, as you become
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  more knowledgeable. And as you increase in the
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  knowledge of this path, you'll you'll pick up on things and
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  you'll get to realize that it doesn't always, you know, that,
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  that surface scratching of the aesthetic of things.
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  You know, you don't have to have a beard, you don't have to have
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  tattoos going up and down your head.
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  You don't have to wear a hammer. You don't have to do all this
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  stuff that people think you have to do.
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  Be here. And there is no you, no, you're
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  not. You're not missing any points.
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  If you don't do one or more of those things, as far as being
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  Heathen goes being a heathen to me and is is about you know,
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  honoring your ancestors, honoring the gods through your
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  daily actions and through your daily walks of through life, how
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  you interact with people how you interact with your, you know,
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  those closest to you, especially your in and got it, which will
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  be probably a start of a subject that we'll talk about in our
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  Love a little bit past halfway through actually a rune
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  discussion series and that's what I'm coming with you guys
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  today to talk about real quick. And that is the runes.
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  eight Rune discussion series. It's a study or a pathway of
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  studying, the runes, got a couple more episodes left to the
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  series before we wrap it up. But today, you know, like I
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  said, wanted to kind of go over. He what?
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  What are the runes and you know, what are they used for?
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  What is their history? A bit?
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  So there is a lot of information out there folks, you know, I
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  can't go into talking and covering every aspect of the
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  runes because we're kind of using this as like an umbrella
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  term. There are so many different sets
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  of runes. What I'm referring to.
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  When I'm going to be talking about today are the Elder
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  futhark rooms, which are a 24. Or phenoms characters used to
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  write in proto-germanic, which is a language that predates the
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  Old Norse language which we see used to speak Old Norse.
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  Obviously, it's a some of the documented text that we have
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  such as codex. Regis the oldest section of the
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  poetic Edda, which is basically collectives of You know,
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  different poems of Norse gods and heroes, things like that.
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  The Old Norse language was spoken in, you know,
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  pre-medieval Scandinavia. And so like I said, before the
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  Elder futhark runes predates that spoken language.
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  We don't really see a whole lot preserved in archaeological or
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  historical findings that have the Elder futhark written.
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  Out but we do have something. So we do have a bit of
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  understanding as far as what these characters are and what
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  they mean, but it is very minimal and a lot of what we
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  have here is in today as far as our knowledge of the runes has
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  come from some obviously, you know, whatever historical
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  evidence that we have. And then also just kind of what
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  has been picked up and collected along the way from other
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  cultures and from other various things.
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  For instance. We, you know, the, the beginning
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  of the Elder futhark set begins with the Rune of fehu.
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  And if you go through and look at the, the etymology I think is
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  the word. I'm looking for the history of
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  that Rune, or the what that word is.
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  We have a rune that You know, is the meaning of that.
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  Rune represents the F sound? Okay, the it is an Old Norse
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  word Faye, and then there's Old English fail.
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  So we get face value from proto-germanic and it's a word
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  that means wealth, right? The, the mobile wealth quite
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  often. It's generally thought of to
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  mean that. Like cattle because cattle were
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  kind of a form of currency and our teeth and times in times
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  when these rooms were used to communicate in.
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  So you have the, you know, and then a lot of the other rooms,
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  the other 23 ruins in the Elder. Futhark set have meanings
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  themselves based on words from those those old languages.
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  Some, again. Some words are some some of
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  those ruins do not have. The actual words one that comes
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  to one that comes to mind is the Rune pair of throw and that
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  particular room. Doesn't have a word that it can
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  be kind of connected with. So it's a bit of a mystery Rune,
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  a rune of mystery. So to speak.
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  And There's there's there's other ways of saying it, you
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  know, there's pure PR has the phonetic sound of a p as in you
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  know, Peter or Papa. But anyways guys kind of what
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  we're going to be going over today is just kind of like a
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  crash course discussion of the runes.
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  The runes I because I said are used as a, you know, language
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  tool just to write. Proto-germanic, but when it
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  comes to the Elder futhark, then we have their esoteric and
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  magical uses, which again doesn't have a whole lot of
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  backing in historical Heathen re.
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  So you'll have a lot of what we call hardcore.
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  Reconstructionist heathens folks, who like to focus their
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  approach to Heathen re based solely on the historical
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  knowledge that we have preserved and to sort of reconstruct that
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  ancient way and real. Live it.
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  Now. It's not really like a revision
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  of practices. It's more or less doing things.
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  Exactly how we know they were done and not deviating from that
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  at all. So, there's so many things out
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  there that will do that myself. I'm not particularly one of
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  them. Although I do hold, the value,
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  from all the historical stuff that we get from the sources and
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  from, what information we have, and I try to build off of that,
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  you know, and apply it as That's my my life.
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  And what My Views are as a modern Heathen.
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  So a lot of reconstruction is heathens won't necessarily
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  looked at the runes is in terms of castings or divination
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  because we really don't have a whole lot that suggests that was
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  ever even done some of the information that we have in the
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  Lord and in the sagas do support, you know, knowing what
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  you're doing when it comes to Working with the runes in a
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  magical sense. So we do at least have some idea
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  or some backing historically, that there was some knowledge of
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  using the runes and inform, you know, magical purposes,
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  spiritual guidance, things like that.
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  Although we really just don't know how that was applied.
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  So what we see, nowadays are folks that use the rooms for
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  Divination in almost in some similar ways.
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  That you would see a person, use a tarot card deck.
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  They will sometimes use what are called Rune spreads, which is a
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  form of divination. It's kind of like laying the
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  runes out in a particular pattern and seeing what that
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  path based off of the pattern that you lay it out, or the
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  spread that you lay it out, lay the ruins out in kind of gives
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  you the reading of what to take from it.
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  It and then there's also a bit more of an organic, not really
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  structured approach to working with the runes which is casting.
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  And that's, that's the approach of Rune working that I do
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  personally. I like the casting method.
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  It, if feels much more natural, it feels kind of, you know, more
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  natural is the best way that I could say is it's not that
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  you're laying them out structured or anyway, there you
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  are. Throwing them out there and
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  letting them fall as they will. And seeing what what happens
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  sometimes, what will happen quite often.
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  What happens is when you're doing the casting, you know,
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  which is basically grabbing a handful of runes, and laying out
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  a cloth, or a sheet or something of runecast and cough.
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  A lot of a lot of folks will have something specifically for
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  Rune, castings laid out on a Surface.
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  Throw the runes down onto the surface and then sometimes what
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  happens is not only do the room. Obviously land.
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  But then they the rooms will form a pattern and the pattern
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  can quite often be in the shape of a rune itself.
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  So you'll you'll get that there's actually going to be
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  some more discussion over on the YouTube channel.
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  Kind of if you guys subscribe and watch those videos, you will
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  actually be able to see what I'm talking about here in the coming
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  weeks because what I plan on doing is sort of offering a bit
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  of a showing of what I do. With my runecast and just to
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  give a little bit inside people, that may have questions.
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  You know, how do I do this? What do I do?
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  What does it look like, you know, kind of give them
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  somewhere of a starting point and hopefully, you know, help
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  with the education process and help people in their learnings.
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  So we're going to take a quick break and here's some word from
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  little bit to you talking about the runes, but definitely make
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  either me. Thank you guys for listening and
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  I'll be back shortly. Hail.