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Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2012 7:20 pm
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Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2012 7:30 pm
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Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2012 9:54 pm
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Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2012 1:23 am
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WEEK ONE: Orientation
This week we'll spend just making sure everyone is ready and on the same page. If you need to get a bit of a grounding first in Norse mythology and religion, the links to the Eddas and Sagas further up the page will help you out. I recommend the Poetic Edda.
In short: the runes are cultural concepts, Mysteries and energies that can be used for magic, divination or simply writing. To use them well, one "takes them up" (as Oðinn did when hanging from Yggdrasil) and understand them as wholes, as ideas. While much magic involves raising your own energy and directing it, runes are outside energies that one calls and channels, and as such can be dangerous. But aside from that, even if one has no interest in magic or divination, they are interesting concepts and lessons that give us insight into Germanic culture and religion.
That's your crib notes wink So I thought this week we could all (if you haven't yet) familiarise ourselves with the concept, ask questions about runes themselves and Germanic religion and culture in general, iron out misunderstandings, discuss the sources we have to hand, etc.
I'm also wondering whether this week people would feel comfortable reaching out to Oðinn in some way. For me this is important, but I don't know how other people might feel about this. Generally I thought it would be kind of cool if everyone made their own sort of overtures but I'm not aware of what sort of bonds and oaths you have with other gods or whatever, so we'll leave it there as an option for discussion.
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Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2012 9:54 am
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Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2012 10:44 am
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Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2012 12:40 pm
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Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2012 2:12 pm
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Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2012 4:50 pm
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Staring Berry too2sweet Staring Berry You keep saying Germanic. Are you sure this is the only religion that uses Runes? Because I'm sure I've heard of other religions using runes. sweatdrop Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and similar would fall under the "Germanic" umbrella. Other than that there is a lot of misappropriation that has occurred in relation to the Runes. Though it's not so much that other paths can't use them, it's just that they tend to use the WAY out of context, or without proper knowledge of what exactly it is that they are working with. There are also other things that are often referred to as Runes, which are in essence something else entirely. Ok then maybe I don't know exactly what type of runes we're talking about here. What type are we talking about?
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Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2012 10:19 pm
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too2sweet Staring Berry too2sweet Staring Berry You keep saying Germanic. Are you sure this is the only religion that uses Runes? Because I'm sure I've heard of other religions using runes. sweatdrop Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and similar would fall under the "Germanic" umbrella. Other than that there is a lot of misappropriation that has occurred in relation to the Runes. Though it's not so much that other paths can't use them, it's just that they tend to use the WAY out of context, or without proper knowledge of what exactly it is that they are working with. There are also other things that are often referred to as Runes, which are in essence something else entirely. Ok then maybe I don't know exactly what type of runes we're talking about here. What type are we talking about? these Thanks biggrin
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