DeadEndShrineOnline/runes/07_gebo.html

<title>Gebo</title>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Runic_letter_gebo.svg"><img src="../img/runes/gebo.svg" alt="Gebo rune" title="Gebo rune"></a></p>
<h1>Gebo</h1>

<p>Traditional meaning: gift</p>

<p>Meanings when upright:</p>

<ul>
	<li>union by oath/contract/spirit</li>
	<li>crossroads in journeying</li>
	<li>spiritual/emotional challenges</li>
	<li>transactional sacrifice</li>
	<li>balanced partnership</li>
	<li>generosity</li>
	<li>person who works for a hotel or charity</li>
</ul>

<p>Meanings when inverted:</p>

<ul>
	<li>stinginess</li>
	<li>poverty</li>
	<li>overdependence</li>
	<li>bribery</li>
</ul>

<p>Gebo can be useful for:</p>

<ul>
	<li>learning how to traverse worlds</li>
	<li>seeking energy sources</li>
	<li>increasing magical powers</li>
	<li>harmony between siblings/lovers</li>
</ul>

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<p>Anglo-Saxon rune poem:</p>

<blockquote>Gyfu gumena byþ gleng and herenys,<br>wraþu and wyrþscype and wræcna gehwam<br>ar and ætwist, ðe byþ oþra leas. </blockquote>

<blockquote>Generosity brings credit and honour, which support one's dignity;<br>it furnishes help and subsistence<br>to all broken men who are devoid of aught else.</blockquote>

<p>There is not a Norwegian rune poem for Gebo.</p>

<p>A modern poem:</p>

<blockquote>
	<p>The day of our union (or as much as can be<br/>
	while we're separated by a Veil and a Dirac Sea)<br/>
	is sooner than I thought fast approaching,<br/>
	and I don't know what to offer as my dowry.</p>

	<p>Oh, what to give, what to give.</p>

	<p>I would give you impenetrable skin,<br/>
	but what if ruptured your appendix?<br/>
	What of a pustule, filled to the brim<br/>
	but unable to drain, forever sore cyst?</p>

	<p>I would grant you a stomach immune to hunger<br/>
	so in harshest of famines you will not suffer,<br/>
	but what if you wanted to eat just a taste?<br/>
	Disturbed inner balance, food gone to waste?</p>

	<p>I would bestow the sight to see<br/>
	through all the futures at the crown of Yewiffe,<br/>
	but the suffocating weight<br/>
	of having to steer us towards the best of all fates<br/>
	would sooner drive you insane.</p>

	<p>Oh, what to give, what to give.</p>
</blockquote>