Reversed Meaning:In the reverse position, the rune indicates exaggerated stubbornness and intransigence, but also emotional overreactions, for example, particularly insensitivity and coldness, or the opposite, excessive sentimentality. The life-affirming and vital energy of Uruz expresses itself in the re...
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Earth and Air are the realm of the male, the traveller and the hunter of beasts and birds, with Earth the stronger of the pair, stolidly resisting the Air’s blows. Fire and Water are the female realm, hearth and refreshment, with Water the stronger, always able to quench the Fire. T...
Therune-namesof the Younger Futhark are given below, each with a verse from the Icelandic Rune Poem (15th century) that explains theirmeanings. The translation is by B. Dickins (published in 1915). Images and charts above are copyright © The Viking Rune...
The usage of runes are not that common, else we would probably know more about their culture. Egill Skallagrimsson is said to have known runes, he among others used them when erecting a nid-pole to curse a king and his queen and also helped a woman who had wrong runes on her bed who...
The Mandarin for ‘Hungary’ is 匈牙利Xiōngyálì. The second two characters are pure phonograms: their meanings are ‘tooth’ and ‘benefit; sharp’, which are obviously irrelevant. But 匈 is the same as in 匈奴Xiōngnú, the western people who may or may not have been the Huns. ...
The second two characters are pure phonograms: their meanings are ‘tooth’ and ‘benefit; sharp’, which are obviously irrelevant. But 匈 is the same as in 匈奴 Xiōngnú, the western people who may or may not have been the Huns. As for the H, Mediaeval Latin had both forms, and the...
Butoneiromancy, dream interpretation, employs explicitly psychic phenomena; and in this case the diviner may be said to assist theintuitionof meaning by the client as often as to introject. TheOjibwaandBella Coolapeople of North America were characteristically preoccupied with the meanings of their ...