Runes were first used over 1500 years ago by the East Goths, and later
appeared throughout England and Scandinavia. As Christianity took hold,
the use of runic alphabets in divination became reviled as a pagan
practice. The word "rune" itself comes from an early Anglo-Saxon word
meaning "secret" or "mystery", and they remain an enigma to the world at
large. Runes were initially most popular among Wiccans and modern
pagans, but have enjoyed unprecedented mainstream adoption in the past
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Since
ancient times, runes have been used for divination and magic, in
addition to writing. The word "rune" actually means mystery, secret or
whisper. Each rune has esoteric meanings and properties associated with
it, beyond its mundane meaning and phonetic value. Each translates into
a word or a phrase signifying concepts important to the early peoples
who used them, representing the forces of nature and mind. Each rune has
a story attached to it, a relationship to a Norse God.
Runes come from the Nordic area where the ancient Vikings once lived,
worked, and fought. Though they were relatively savage in their outings,
the Vikings were people in touch with Earth and the many forces that
coexisted with them. They have a whole lore that includes many popular
god figures such as Thor, the son of Odin. Thor carried a mighty hammer
and many of us know him from comic books. The father of Thor, Odin, was
the creator of the Runes and is the most important holy figure of the
Viking people. Odin hung upside down from a tree limb for a chance of
higher knowledge and right before he came down from the tree limb, he
was bestowed with the new system called the Runes. These symbols were
used for writing and magic by the high priests.
Runic divination or "rune casting" is not "fortune-telling" in the sense
that one actually sees the future. Instead, runes give one a means of
analyzing the path that one is on and a likely outcome. The future is
not fixed. It changes with everything one does. If one does not like the
prediction, one can always change paths. |
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