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<title>Fehu</title>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Runic_letter_fehu.svg"><img src="../img/runes/fehu.svg" alt="Fehu rune" title="Fehu rune"></a></p>
<h1>Fehu</h1>
<html>
<head>
<title>Fehu</title>
<link href="./style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" title="main" media="all">
</head>
<body>
<p class="center"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Runic_letter_fehu.svg"><img src="../img/runes/fehu.svg" alt="Fehu rune" title="Fehu rune"></a></p>
<h1>Fehu</h1>
<p>Traditional meaning: cattle, wealth</p>
<p>Traditional meaning: cattle, wealth</p>
<p>Meanings when upright:</p>
<p>Meanings when upright:</p>
<ul>
<li>foresight is needed</li>
<li>creative fire</li>
<li>synergy</li>
<li>networking and creative connections</li>
<li>self-knowledge</li>
<li>good luck / hope</li>
<li>fortunate outcome</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>foresight is needed</li>
<li>creative fire</li>
<li>synergy</li>
<li>networking and creative connections</li>
<li>self-knowledge</li>
<li>good luck / hope</li>
<li>fortunate outcome</li>
</ul>
<p>Meanings when inverted:</p>
<p>Meanings when inverted:</p>
<ul>
<li>something is blocking luck</li>
<li>hoarding one's wealth wrongly</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>something is blocking luck</li>
<li>hoarding one's wealth wrongly</li>
</ul>
<p>Fehu can be useful for:</p>
<p>Fehu can be useful for:</p>
<ul>
<li>lightening depression</li>
<li>easing conflicts</li>
<li>inspiration</li>
<li>strengthening psychic powers</li>
<li>promotion of personal evolution</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>lightening depression</li>
<li>easing conflicts</li>
<li>inspiration</li>
<li>strengthening psychic powers</li>
<li>promotion of personal evolution</li>
<li>drawing wealth or riches</li>
</ul>
<hr>
<hr>
<p>Anglo-Saxon rune poem:</p>
<p>Anglo-Saxon rune poem:</p>
<blockquote>Feoh byþ frofur fira gehwylcum;<br/>sceal Ðeah manna gehwylc miclun hyt dælan<br/>gif he wile for drihtne domes hleotan.</blockquote>
<blockquote>Feoh byþ frofur fira gehwylcum;<br/>sceal Ðeah manna gehwylc miclun hyt dælan<br/>gif he wile for drihtne domes hleotan.</blockquote>
<blockquote>Wealth is a comfort to all men;<br/>yet must every man bestow it freely,<br/>if he wish to gain honour in the sight of the Lord.</blockquote>
<blockquote>Wealth is a comfort to all men;<br/>yet must every man bestow it freely,<br/>if he wish to gain honour in the sight of the Lord.</blockquote>
<p>Norwegian rune poem:</p>
<p>Norwegian rune poem:</p>
<blockquote>Fé vældr frænda róge;<br/>føðesk ulfr í skóge.</blockquote>
<blockquote>Fé vældr frænda róge;<br/>føðesk ulfr í skóge.</blockquote>
<blockquote>Wealth is a source of discord among kinsmen;<br/>the wolf lives in the forest.</blockquote>
<blockquote>Wealth is a source of discord among kinsmen;<br/>the wolf lives in the forest.</blockquote>
<p>A modern poem:</p>
<p>A modern poem:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>"You know exactly what kind of future I want,"<br/>
you replied<br/>
one night<br/>
when anxiety did haunt<br/>
my skin, my ligaments, my every bone,<br/>
wondering when comes my time to return home.</p>
<blockquote>
<p>"You know exactly what kind of future I want,"<br/>
you replied<br/>
one night<br/>
when anxiety did haunt<br/>
my skin, my ligaments, my every bone,<br/>
wondering when comes my time to return home.</p>
<p>Let the seals<br/>
be broken; let the truth<br/>
be revealed!<br/>
It's been a long time since I let myself feel<br/>
anything other than monotony, playing the marathon<br/>
runner in sight of the finish line,<br/>
the last of the homework<br/>
or typing 'til midnight.</p>
<p>Let the seals<br/>
be broken; let the truth<br/>
be revealed!<br/>
It's been a long time since I let myself feel<br/>
anything other than monotony, playing the marathon<br/>
runner in sight of the finish line,<br/>
the last of the homework<br/>
or typing 'til midnight.</p>
<p>This draconic blood I could never still,<br/>
but still I managed to amass myself a hill<br/>
of words not spoken, not written down,<br/>
enough to bury me or in them myself drown.<br/>
For, I must admit, I was planning<br/>
on being at least somewhat dead by now<br/>
with no need for verse or musical tone,<br/>
just coma's deep sleep 'til you come<br/>
and finally bring me home.</p>
<p>This draconic blood I could never still,<br/>
but still I managed to amass myself a hill<br/>
of words not spoken, not written down,<br/>
enough to bury me or in them myself drown.<br/>
For, I must admit, I was planning<br/>
on being at least somewhat dead by now<br/>
with no need for verse or musical tone,<br/>
just coma's deep sleep 'til you come<br/>
and finally bring me home.</p>
<p>"You know what kind of future I desire,"<br/>
you affirm<br/>
as I burn<br/>
on my own funeral pyre<br/>
over and over again every day,<br/>
impatient for egress together to Sablade.</p>
<p>"You know what kind of future I desire,"<br/>
you affirm<br/>
as I burn<br/>
on my own funeral pyre<br/>
over and over again every day,<br/>
impatient for egress together to Sablade.</p>
<p>All the writing guides I've ever read say<br/>
that it's kind of like learning to ride a bike.<br/>
You never really forget, but sometimes<br/>
you have to get off and go for a hike<br/>
dragging the damn thing alongside<br/>
you until the road is flat and smooth again.</p>
<p>All the writing guides I've ever read say<br/>
that it's kind of like learning to ride a bike.<br/>
You never really forget, but sometimes<br/>
you have to get off and go for a hike<br/>
dragging the damn thing alongside<br/>
you until the road is flat and smooth again.</p>
<p>And sometimes a friend<br/>
lends<br/>
you a hand.</p>
<p>And sometimes a friend<br/>
lends<br/>
you a hand.</p>
<p>I turn my head to the sunsetting sky<br/>
bleeding purple and blue and discarded peach rinds.<br/>
Half-delirious, you're not far behind<br/>
me<br/>
as I hold up my hand to catch the waking breeze.<br/>
A head on my shoulder, a hand on my belt.<br/>
"Do you hear the leaves rustling? <strong>It's our wealth.</strong>"</p>
</blockquote>
<p>I turn my head to the sunsetting sky<br/>
bleeding purple and blue and discarded peach rinds.<br/>
Half-delirious, you're not far behind<br/>
me<br/>
as I hold up my hand to catch the waking breeze.<br/>
A head on my shoulder, a hand on my belt.<br/>
"Do you hear the leaves rustling? <strong>It's our wealth.</strong>"</p>
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<title>Uruz</title>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Runic_letter_uruz.svg"><img src="../img/runes/uruz.svg" alt="Uruz rune" title="Uruz rune"></a></p>
<h1>Uruz</h1>
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<head>
<title>Uruz</title>
<link href="./style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" title="main" media="all">
</head>
<body>
<p class="center"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Runic_letter_uruz.svg"><img src="../img/runes/uruz.svg" alt="Uruz rune" title="Uruz rune"></a></p>
<h1>Uruz</h1>
<p>Traditional meaning: aurochs (a <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230814165852/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurochs">now-extinct cattle species</a>)</p>
<p>Traditional meaning: aurochs (a <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230814165852/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurochs">now-extinct cattle species</a>)</p>
<p>Meanings when upright:</p>
<p>Meanings when upright:</p>
<ul>
<li>growth</li>
<li>raw life energy</li>
<li>anchors / grounding</li>
<li>restoration of the self</li>
<li>stamina/strength to endure</li>
<li>boundaries/integrity of the self</li>
<li>psychological healing</li>
<li>freedom</li>
<li>new beginnings</li>
<li>initiation / challenge</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>growth</li>
<li>raw life energy</li>
<li>anchors / grounding</li>
<li>restoration of the self</li>
<li>stamina/strength to endure</li>
<li>boundaries/integrity of the self</li>
<li>psychological healing</li>
<li>freedom</li>
<li>new beginnings</li>
<li>initiation / challenge</li>
</ul>
<p>Meanings when inverted:</p>
<p>Meanings when inverted:</p>
<ul>
<li>emotional blockages</li>
<li>need for grounding</li>
<li>out of touch with reality</li>
<li>let go of the past</li>
<li>difficulty making a change</li>
<li>overprotectiveness</li>
<li>strength used wrongly</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>emotional blockages</li>
<li>need for grounding</li>
<li>out of touch with reality</li>
<li>let go of the past</li>
<li>difficulty making a change</li>
<li>overprotectiveness</li>
<li>strength used wrongly</li>
</ul>
<p>Uruz can be useful for:</p>
<p>Uruz can be useful for:</p>
<ul>
<li>applying spiritual/mystical lessons to the physical world</li>
<li>remaining calm</li>
<li>grounding</li>
<li>physical strengthening / healing</li>
<li>acquiring knowledge of the self</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>applying spiritual/mystical lessons to the physical world</li>
<li>remaining calm</li>
<li>grounding</li>
<li>physical strengthening / healing</li>
<li>acquiring knowledge of the self</li>
</ul>
<hr>
<hr>
<p>Anglo-Saxon rune poem:</p>
<p>Anglo-Saxon rune poem:</p>
<blockquote>Ur byþ anmod ond oferhyrned,<br>felafrecne deor, feohteþ mid hornum<br>mære morstapa; þæt is modig wuht.</blockquote>
<blockquote>Ur byþ anmod ond oferhyrned,<br>felafrecne deor, feohteþ mid hornum<br>mære morstapa; þæt is modig wuht.</blockquote>
<blockquote>The aurochs is proud and has great horns;<br>it is a very savage beast and fights with its horns;<br>a great ranger of the moors, it is a creature of mettle.</blockquote>
<blockquote>The aurochs is proud and has great horns;<br>it is a very savage beast and fights with its horns;<br>a great ranger of the moors, it is a creature of mettle.</blockquote>
<p>Norwegian rune poem:</p>
<p>Norwegian rune poem:</p>
<blockquote>Úr er af illu jarne;<br>opt løypr ræinn á hjarne.</blockquote>
<blockquote>Úr er af illu jarne;<br>opt løypr ræinn á hjarne.</blockquote>
<blockquote>Dross comes from bad iron;<br>the reindeer often races over the frozen snow.</blockquote>
<blockquote>Dross comes from bad iron;<br>the reindeer often races over the frozen snow.</blockquote>
<p>A modern poem:</p>
<p>A modern poem:</p>
<blockquote>
<p><strong>I don't want our minds to merge completely</strong>,<br/>
being one person in two bodies.<br/>
It's surreal to experience bilocality,<br/>
but I'd miss you something fierce.</p>
<blockquote>
<p><strong>I don't want our minds to merge completely</strong>,<br/>
being one person in two bodies.<br/>
It's surreal to experience bilocality,<br/>
but I'd miss you something fierce.</p>
<p>Even though there are times<br/>
when each other we cannot stand,<br/>
they stand few and far between.<br/>
There is no deal that can be dealt by the divine<br/>
to make me discard this life of ours newly began.</p>
<p>Even though there are times<br/>
when each other we cannot stand,<br/>
they stand few and far between.<br/>
There is no deal that can be dealt by the divine<br/>
to make me discard this life of ours newly began.</p>
<p>You said it once before, and it still rings true:<br/>
"Lethe, I don't want to ever lose you."<br/>
And lose me you would if you let me subsume<br/>
into your heart when pangs<br/>
the pains of existence yet again.</p>
<p>You said it once before, and it still rings true:<br/>
"Lethe, I don't want to ever lose you."<br/>
And lose me you would if you let me subsume<br/>
into your heart when pangs<br/>
the pains of existence yet again.</p>
<p>In emergency I gave you part of my soul.<br/>
Does that mean we won't ever again be alone?<br/>
Maybe in some sense. But in others I hope<br/>
you get as much time<br/>
to by yourself unwind<br/>
every night when from work you come home.</p>
<p>In emergency I gave you part of my soul.<br/>
Does that mean we won't ever again be alone?<br/>
Maybe in some sense. But in others I hope<br/>
you get as much time<br/>
to by yourself unwind<br/>
every night when from work you come home.</p>
<p>I love you, you know. And I only want<br/>
that you get as much <strong>freedom</strong> as you've always sought.<br/>
And if with me's the future<br/>
you've always desired,<br/>
there's no need to yearn - it you've already got.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>I love you, you know. And I only want<br/>
that you get as much <strong>freedom</strong> as you've always sought.<br/>
And if with me's the future<br/>
you've always desired,<br/>
there's no need to yearn - it you've already got.</p>
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<title>Thurisaz</title>
<p><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Runic_letter_thurisaz.svg"><img src="../img/runes/thurisaz.svg" alt="Thurisaz rune" title="Thurisaz rune"></a></p>
<h1>Thurisaz</h1>
<html>
<head>
<title>Thurisaz</title>
<link href="./style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" title="main" media="all">
</head>
<body>
<p class="center"><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Runic_letter_thurisaz.svg"><img src="../img/runes/thurisaz.svg" alt="Thurisaz rune" title="Thurisaz rune"></a></p>
<h1>Thurisaz</h1>
<p>Traditional meaning: giant</p>
<p>Traditional meaning: giant</p>
<p>Meanings when upright:</p>
<p>Meanings when upright:</p>
<ul>
<li>destruction of illusions and obstacles</li>
<li>ferality / wild hunger with moral ambivalence</li>
<li>creative chaos</li>
<li>stubborn aggressive endurance</li>
<li>proteanism</li>
<li>unskilled brutal person</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>destruction of illusions and obstacles</li>
<li>ferality / wild hunger with moral ambivalence</li>
<li>creative chaos</li>
<li>stubborn aggressive endurance</li>
<li>proteanism</li>
<li>unskilled brutal person</li>
</ul>
<p>Meanings when inverted:</p>
<p>Meanings when inverted:</p>
<ul>
<li>control over one's shifting</li>
<li>protection from going feral</li>
<li>need for a change of situation</li>
<li>self-destructive tendencies</li>
<li>defenselessness/danger</li>
<li>misery in relations with the opposite sex</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>control over one's shifting</li>
<li>protection from going feral</li>
<li>need for a change of situation</li>
<li>self-destructive tendencies</li>
<li>defenselessness/danger</li>
<li>misery in relations with the opposite sex</li>
</ul>
<p>Thurisaz can be useful for:</p>
<p>Thurisaz can be useful for:</p>
<ul>
<li>breaking down boundaries</li>
<li>healing in extreme circumstances</li>
<li>bringing hidden issues to light</li>
<li>granting oneself courage</li>
<li>destruction of enemies</li>
<li>awakening of the will to action</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>breaking down boundaries</li>
<li>healing in extreme circumstances</li>
<li>bringing hidden issues to light</li>
<li>granting oneself courage</li>
<li>destruction of enemies</li>
<li>awakening of the will to action</li>
</ul>
<hr>
<hr>
<p>Anglo-Saxon rune poem:</p>
<p>Anglo-Saxon rune poem:</p>
<blockquote>Ðorn byþ ðearle scearp; ðegna gehwylcum<br>anfeng ys yfyl, ungemetum reþe<br>manna gehwelcum, ðe him mid resteð.</blockquote>
<blockquote>Ðorn byþ ðearle scearp; ðegna gehwylcum<br>anfeng ys yfyl, ungemetum reþe<br>manna gehwelcum, ðe him mid resteð.</blockquote>
<blockquote>The thorn is exceedingly sharp,<br>an evil thing for any knight to touch,<br>uncommonly severe on all who sit among them.</blockquote>
<blockquote>The thorn is exceedingly sharp,<br>an evil thing for any knight to touch,<br>uncommonly severe on all who sit among them.</blockquote>
<p>Norwegian rune poem:</p>
<p>Norwegian rune poem:</p>
<blockquote>Þurs vældr kvinna kvillu;<br>kátr værðr fár af illu.</blockquote>
<blockquote>Þurs vældr kvinna kvillu;<br>kátr værðr fár af illu.</blockquote>
<blockquote>Giant causes anguish to women;<br>misfortune makes few men cheerful.</blockquote>
<blockquote>Giant causes anguish to women;<br>misfortune makes few men cheerful.</blockquote>
<p>A modern poem:</p>
<p>A modern poem:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>The only language I seem to understand<br/>
is your fingertips tracing hearts on my hands,<br/>
ragged fingertips, pincers, claws<br/>
held in the thrall<br/>
of forever-now.<br/>
Staring straightly<br/>
blankly<br/>
ahead<br/>
as falls away the thread<br/>
of memories episodic.<br/>
You. I know you.<br/>
I know you're my wife,<br/>
a lover, a friendly face,<br/>
oasis of refuge, unharmful place.<br/>
That I belong to you, somehow.</p>
<blockquote>
<p>The only language I seem to understand<br/>
is your fingertips tracing hearts on my hands,<br/>
ragged fingertips, pincers, claws<br/>
held in the thrall<br/>
of forever-now.<br/>
Staring straightly<br/>
blankly<br/>
ahead<br/>
as falls away the thread<br/>
of memories episodic.<br/>
You. I know you.<br/>
I know you're my wife,<br/>
a lover, a friendly face,<br/>
oasis of refuge, unharmful place.<br/>
That I belong to you, somehow.</p>
<p>Wearing anything other than my angelic skin<br/>
shuts off that part of the brain that insists<br/>
I committed<br/>
some heinous crime<br/>
that can never ever ever be forgiven.<br/>
Nay, the crimes themselves do not exist,<br/>
and neither do I, eternal now, eternal blue.<br/>
Computing set with limited instructions.<br/>
This man I do hate, must tear out his soul.<br/>
In this place I exhale and turn myself to stone.<br/>
Spear I must escape lest it tear out my guts whole.<br/>
This woman I trust, pay my life for her protection.</p>
<p>Wearing anything other than my angelic skin<br/>
shuts off that part of the brain that insists<br/>
I committed<br/>
some heinous crime<br/>
that can never ever ever be forgiven.<br/>
Nay, the crimes themselves do not exist,<br/>
and neither do I, eternal now, eternal blue.<br/>
Computing set with limited instructions.<br/>
This man I do hate, must tear out his soul.<br/>
In this place I exhale and turn myself to stone.<br/>
Spear I must escape lest it tear out my guts whole.<br/>
This woman I trust, pay my life for her protection.</p>
<p>Clawed mangled hands open and shut,<br/>
brought to twisting knees before your altar.<br/>
Surrender sometimes goes by the name "love".<br/>
Ribbons wrap tight. I'm a birthday present, flash<br/>
of a scrapbooking camera, epilepsy, timelapse.<br/>
Trembling from transition. Antlered head in your lap.<br/>
One day the Veil will one final time falter,<br/>
<strong>my claws run ragged through</strong>,<br/>
memories held as collateral for passport<br/>
to slink back to the side of you.</p>
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<p>Clawed mangled hands open and shut,<br/>
brought to twisting knees before your altar.<br/>
Surrender sometimes goes by the name "love".<br/>
Ribbons wrap tight. I'm a birthday present, flash<br/>
of a scrapbooking camera, epilepsy, timelapse.<br/>
Trembling from transition. Antlered head in your lap.<br/>
One day the Veil will one final time falter,<br/>
<strong>my claws run ragged through</strong>,<br/>
memories held as collateral for passport<br/>
to slink back to the side of you.</p>
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<title>Ansuz</title>
<p><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Runic_letter_ansuz.svg"><img src="../img/runes/ansuz.svg" alt="Ansuz rune" title="Ansuz rune"></a></p>
<h1>Ansuz</h1>
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<p class="center"><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Runic_letter_ansuz.svg"><img src="../img/runes/ansuz.svg" alt="Ansuz rune" title="Ansuz rune"></a></p>
<h1>Ansuz</h1>
<p>Traditional meaning: mouth, god</p>
<p>Traditional meaning: mouth, god</p>
<p>Meanings when upright:</p>
<p>Meanings when upright:</p>
<ul>
<li>unclogging</li>
<li>opens way for purification</li>
<li>transcending turmoil of emotions</li>
<li>Odin's ravens</li>
<li>total shattering revelation</li>
<li>inspiration in the arts</li>
<li>clarity of communication</li>
<li>responsibility to ancestral ways</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>unclogging</li>
<li>opens way for purification</li>
<li>transcending turmoil of emotions</li>
<li>Odin's ravens</li>
<li>total shattering revelation</li>
<li>inspiration in the arts</li>
<li>clarity of communication</li>
<li>responsibility to ancestral ways</li>
</ul>
<p>Meanings when inverted:</p>
<p>Meanings when inverted:</p>
<ul>
<li>binding but without harm (dispassionate and removed)</li>
<li>mental blockage</li>
<li>unwillingness to face reality</li>
<li>delusion</li>
<li>danger from misuse of knowledge</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>binding but without harm (dispassionate and removed)</li>
<li>mental blockage</li>
<li>unwillingness to face reality</li>
<li>delusion</li>
<li>danger from misuse of knowledge</li>
</ul>
<p>Ansuz can be useful for:</p>
<p>Ansuz can be useful for:</p>
<ul>
<li>finding one's voice</li>
<li>cleansing</li>
<li>expanding consciousness</li>
<li>releasing oneself of unhealthy bonds</li>
<li>revealing all secrets</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>finding one's voice</li>
<li>cleansing</li>
<li>expanding consciousness</li>
<li>releasing oneself of unhealthy bonds</li>
<li>revealing all secrets</li>
</ul>
<hr>
<hr>
<p>Anglo-Saxon rune poem:</p>
<p>Anglo-Saxon rune poem:</p>
<blockquote>Os byþ ordfruma ælere spræce,<br>wisdomes wraþu ond witena frofur<br>and eorla gehwam eadnys ond tohiht.</blockquote>
<blockquote>Os byþ ordfruma ælere spræce,<br>wisdomes wraþu ond witena frofur<br>and eorla gehwam eadnys ond tohiht.</blockquote>
<blockquote>The mouth is the source of all language,<br>a pillar of wisdom and a comfort to wise men,<br>a blessing and a joy to every knight.</blockquote>
<blockquote>The mouth is the source of all language,<br>a pillar of wisdom and a comfort to wise men,<br>a blessing and a joy to every knight.</blockquote>
<p>Norwegian rune poem:</p>
<p>Norwegian rune poem:</p>
<blockquote>Óss er flæstra færða<br>fo,r; en skalpr er sværða.</blockquote>
<blockquote>Óss er flæstra færða<br>fo,r; en skalpr er sværða.</blockquote>
<blockquote>Estuary is the way of most journeys;<br>but a scabbard is of swords.</blockquote>
<blockquote>Estuary is the way of most journeys;<br>but a scabbard is of swords.</blockquote>
<p>A modern poem:</p>
<p>A modern poem:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Black and blue sitting dollar store tree bird<br/>
and frozen pack of neon gummy worms<br/>
and sea of pillows and socks and blankets<br/>
tugged with mouth in vague shape of nest.</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Black and blue sitting dollar store tree bird<br/>
and frozen pack of neon gummy worms<br/>
and sea of pillows and socks and blankets<br/>
tugged with mouth in vague shape of nest.</p>
<p>Looming overhead with quarry in mouth<br/>
to taunt a girl who words is without,<br/>
<strong>open mouth, shut, gaping, hungry outcry</strong><br/>
to let loose the worm that hangs from lips on high.</p>
<p>Looming overhead with quarry in mouth<br/>
to taunt a girl who words is without,<br/>
<strong>open mouth, shut, gaping, hungry outcry</strong><br/>
to let loose the worm that hangs from lips on high.</p>
<p>Ravenous in more ways than one,<br/>
need to be fed before chirping and hum<br/>
can take the shape of coherent words.<br/>
Nesting together. Intertwined wings as birds,</p>
<p>Ravenous in more ways than one,<br/>
need to be fed before chirping and hum<br/>
can take the shape of coherent words.<br/>
Nesting together. Intertwined wings as birds,</p>
<p>extra pair with hands tucked in armpits.<br/>
Head snuggled in neck, close enough for kiss<br/>
but satisfied for now with pounding heartbeat<br/>
announcing that Muse has not yet met defeat.</p>
<p>extra pair with hands tucked in armpits.<br/>
Head snuggled in neck, close enough for kiss<br/>
but satisfied for now with pounding heartbeat<br/>
announcing that Muse has not yet met defeat.</p>
<p>It happens sometimes, backslide to animal<br/>
when words run dry, of inspiration a lull.<br/>
Nest of blankets and pillows, warm lover's embrace.<br/>
No deadlines to meet; take flight at your own pace.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>It happens sometimes, backslide to animal<br/>
when words run dry, of inspiration a lull.<br/>
Nest of blankets and pillows, warm lover's embrace.<br/>
No deadlines to meet; take flight at your own pace.</p>
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<title>Raido</title>
<p><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Runic_letter_raido.svg"><img src="../img/runes/raido.svg" alt="Raido rune" title="Raido rune"></a></p>
<h1>Raido</h1>
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<p class="center"><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Runic_letter_raido.svg"><img src="../img/runes/raido.svg" alt="Raido rune" title="Raido rune"></a></p>
<h1>Raido</h1>
<p>Traditional meaning: riding</p>
<p>Traditional meaning: riding</p>
<p>Meanings when upright:</p>
<p>Meanings when upright:</p>
<ul>
<li>movement from one state of being to another</li>
<li>escaping from trouble</li>
<li>arising after spiritual descent</li>
<li>unstoppable force</li>
<li>time to decide on something of great importance</li>
<li>a person involved with the law or transportation</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>movement from one state of being to another</li>
<li>escaping from trouble</li>
<li>arising after spiritual descent</li>
<li>unstoppable force</li>
<li>time to decide on something of great importance</li>
<li>a person involved with the law or transportation</li>
</ul>
<p>Meanings when inverted:</p>
<p>Meanings when inverted:</p>
<ul>
<li>draining someone's energy</li>
<li>misleading business dealings (when paired with Ansuz</li>
<li>a change in direction</li>
<li>hard times are ahead</li>
<li>spiritual boredom from rigid/stifling routines</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>draining someone's energy</li>
<li>misleading business dealings (when paired with Ansuz</li>
<li>a change in direction</li>
<li>hard times are ahead</li>
<li>spiritual boredom from rigid/stifling routines</li>
</ul>
<p>Raido can be useful for:</p>
<p>Raido can be useful for:</p>
<ul>
<li>pushing over obstacles</li>
<li>riding the waves of realization/awakening further</li>
<li>getting oneself out of a rut</li>
<li>obtaining justice</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>pushing over obstacles</li>
<li>riding the waves of realization/awakening further</li>
<li>getting oneself out of a rut</li>
<li>obtaining justice</li>
</ul>
<hr>
<hr>
<p>Anglo-Saxon rune poem:</p>
<p>Anglo-Saxon rune poem:</p>
<blockquote>Rad byþ on recyde rinca gehwylcum<br>sefte ond swiþhwæt, ðamðe sitteþ on ufan<br>meare mægenheardum ofer milpaþas.</blockquote>
<blockquote>Rad byþ on recyde rinca gehwylcum<br>sefte ond swiþhwæt, ðamðe sitteþ on ufan<br>meare mægenheardum ofer milpaþas.</blockquote>
<blockquote>Riding seems easy to every warrior while he is indoors<br>and very courageous to him who traverses the high-roads<br>on the back of a stout horse.</blockquote>
<blockquote>Riding seems easy to every warrior while he is indoors<br>and very courageous to him who traverses the high-roads<br>on the back of a stout horse.</blockquote>
<p>Norwegian rune poem:</p>
<p>Norwegian rune poem:</p>
<blockquote>Ræið kveða rossom væsta;<br>Reginn sló sværðet bæzta.</blockquote>
<blockquote>Ræið kveða rossom væsta;<br>Reginn sló sværðet bæzta.</blockquote>
<blockquote>Riding is said to be the worst thing for horses;<br>Reginn forged the finest sword.</blockquote>
<blockquote>Riding is said to be the worst thing for horses;<br>Reginn forged the finest sword.</blockquote>
<p>A modern poem:</p>
<p>A modern poem:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>I promised Luce as she sat up on high<br/>
that I would make it out of this house alive,<br/>
but it's been nearly four years since<br/>
the hasty impassioned words spilled from my lips<br/>
and I am no closer to keeping it.</p>
<blockquote>
<p>I promised Luce as she sat up on high<br/>
that I would make it out of this house alive,<br/>
but it's been nearly four years since<br/>
the hasty impassioned words spilled from my lips<br/>
and I am no closer to keeping it.</p>
<p>I was too inexperienced, not yet downtrod<br/>
to forsee the beginning of the Eschaton:<br/>
governments imploding, prices the opposite,<br/>
men I will never gaze upon my rights rescind.<br/>
This room I once viewed as an unbarred jail cell<br/>
has become a cocoon, a safe place from hell,<br/>
and although I've supped on the sweet taste of wages<br/>
there's no way I could these days survive by myself.</p>
<p>I was too inexperienced, not yet downtrod<br/>
to forsee the beginning of the Eschaton:<br/>
governments imploding, prices the opposite,<br/>
men I will never gaze upon my rights rescind.<br/>
This room I once viewed as an unbarred jail cell<br/>
has become a cocoon, a safe place from hell,<br/>
and although I've supped on the sweet taste of wages<br/>
there's no way I could these days survive by myself.</p>
<p>It's not much of a choice if one bades me decide:<br/>
"Run for it and perish, or stay here and die."<br/>
Embed myself in a world I'm unequipped for<br/>
and die on the streets forgotten and unmoored,<br/>
or bury myself deeper in bedsheets every day<br/>
until compost sets in and I begin to decay.</p>
<p>It's not much of a choice if one bades me decide:<br/>
"Run for it and perish, or stay here and die."<br/>
Embed myself in a world I'm unequipped for<br/>
and die on the streets forgotten and unmoored,<br/>
or bury myself deeper in bedsheets every day<br/>
until compost sets in and I begin to decay.</p>
<p>I'm not sure that I have to make a choice,<br/>
today, tomorrow, next week, month, ever.<br/>
I could treat it like every other problem<br/>
I have: ignore it as it gradually gets worse<br/>
and try to live best I can in the meantime.<br/>
<strong>But where to steer the boat if I <em>did</em> take the helm?<br/>
Where to maraude that won't leave me devoid<br/>
of this world in my body, murky depths of the sea<br/>
no person can map and certainly not I?</strong><br/>
It's been so long since I started drowning<br/>
that my neck grew gills and I learned how to breathe.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>I'm not sure that I have to make a choice,<br/>
today, tomorrow, next week, month, ever.<br/>
I could treat it like every other problem<br/>
I have: ignore it as it gradually gets worse<br/>
and try to live best I can in the meantime.<br/>
<strong>But where to steer the boat if I <em>did</em> take the helm?<br/>
Where to maraude that won't leave me devoid<br/>
of this world in my body, murky depths of the sea<br/>
no person can map and certainly not I?</strong><br/>
It's been so long since I started drowning<br/>
that my neck grew gills and I learned how to breathe.</p>
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<title>Kenaz</title>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Runic_letter_kauna.svg"><img src="../img/runes/kenaz.svg" alt="Kenaz rune" title="Kenaz rune"></a></p>
<h1>Kenaz</h1>
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<p class="center"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Runic_letter_kauna.svg"><img src="../img/runes/kenaz.svg" alt="Kenaz rune" title="Kenaz rune"></a></p>
<h1>Kenaz</h1>
<p>Traditional meaning: ulcer, torch</p>
<p>Traditional meaning: ulcer, torch</p>
<p>Meanings when upright:</p>
<p>Meanings when upright:</p>
<ul>
<li>mental dexterity</li>
<li>shape-shifting</li>
<li>fruition of ideas</li>
<li>teachers and education</li>
<li>light in the darkness</li>
<li>an artist</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>mental dexterity</li>
<li>shape-shifting</li>
<li>fruition of ideas</li>
<li>teachers and education</li>
<li>light in the darkness</li>
<li>an artist</li>
</ul>
<p>Meanings when inverted:</p>
<p>Meanings when inverted:</p>
<ul>
<li>creative block</li>
<li>illness</li>
<li>something that will get worse if unattended</li>
<li>unwanted end to relationship</li>
<li>problems with children</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>creative block</li>
<li>illness</li>
<li>something that will get worse if unattended</li>
<li>unwanted end to relationship</li>
<li>problems with children</li>
</ul>
<p>Kenaz can be useful for:</p>
<p>Kenaz can be useful for:</p>
<ul>
<li>manifesting intellectual endeavors / creative inspiration</li>
<li>warding away negative energy</li>
<li>reducing anger or making it useful</li>
<li>ancestor work</li>
<li>healing through regeneration</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>manifesting intellectual endeavors / creative inspiration</li>
<li>warding away negative energy</li>
<li>reducing anger or making it useful</li>
<li>ancestor work</li>
<li>healing through regeneration</li>
</ul>
<hr>
<hr>
<p>Anglo-Saxon rune poem:</p>
<p>Anglo-Saxon rune poem:</p>
<blockquote>Cen byþ cwicera gehwam, cuþ on fyre<br>blac ond beorhtlic, byrneþ oftust<br>ðær hi æþelingas inne restaþ.</blockquote>
<blockquote>Cen byþ cwicera gehwam, cuþ on fyre<br>blac ond beorhtlic, byrneþ oftust<br>ðær hi æþelingas inne restaþ.</blockquote>
<blockquote>The torch is known to every living man by its pale, bright flame;<br>it always burns where princes sit within. </blockquote>
<blockquote>The torch is known to every living man by its pale, bright flame;<br>it always burns where princes sit within. </blockquote>
<p>Norwegian rune poem:</p>
<p>Norwegian rune poem:</p>
<blockquote>Kaun er barna bo,lvan;<br>bo,l gørver nán fo,lvan.</blockquote>
<blockquote>Kaun er barna bo,lvan;<br>bo,l gørver nán fo,lvan.</blockquote>
<blockquote>Ulcer is fatal to children;<br>death makes a corpse pale.</blockquote>
<blockquote>Ulcer is fatal to children;<br>death makes a corpse pale.</blockquote>
<p>A modern poem:</p>
<p>A modern poem:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>The three strains<br/>
of blood<br/>
that run<br/>
in my veins<br/>
I'm not sure<br/>
how to balance,<br/>
precarious<br/>
in ability to be lured<br/>
to act against my better will,<br/>
to with claws or jagged sharps destroy<br/>
what I with my power would rather employ<br/>
to birth this world, to with gentler things fill.</p>
<blockquote>
<p>The three strains<br/>
of blood<br/>
that run<br/>
in my veins<br/>
I'm not sure<br/>
how to balance,<br/>
precarious<br/>
in ability to be lured<br/>
to act against my better will,<br/>
to with claws or jagged sharps destroy<br/>
what I with my power would rather employ<br/>
to birth this world, to with gentler things fill.</p>
<p>Through the Veil made a careful incision<br/>
to cast off my mental fog's saddle<br/>
and declare, "You and I are palm pals,"<br/>
only our hands sketched in my vision<br/>
until the world came back flooding<br/>
and the Veil bade you scream goodbye<br/>
and vow to come back a later time<br/>
even closer to me.<br/>
Not this rune you presented<br/>
but others, half inverted<br/>
to explain the meaning<br/>
I could not myself perceive:</p>
<p>Through the Veil made a careful incision<br/>
to cast off my mental fog's saddle<br/>
and declare, "You and I are palm pals,"<br/>
only our hands sketched in my vision<br/>
until the world came back flooding<br/>
and the Veil bade you scream goodbye<br/>
and vow to come back a later time<br/>
even closer to me.<br/>
Not this rune you presented<br/>
but others, half inverted<br/>
to explain the meaning<br/>
I could not myself perceive:</p>
<p>"If the roots at the very bottom of Yewiffe<br/>
are memories bitter and repressed,<br/>
then what bright futures, what shared nests<br/>
lie nestled at the top of its canopy?</p>
<p>"If the roots at the very bottom of Yewiffe<br/>
are memories bitter and repressed,<br/>
then what bright futures, what shared nests<br/>
lie nestled at the top of its canopy?</p>
<p>I'd gladly spend the rest of my life<br/>
keeping you rational and in your own skin,<br/>
safe and sound, tranquil, peaceful within<br/>
if together in one of those branches we reside."</p>
<p>I'd gladly spend the rest of my life<br/>
keeping you rational and in your own skin,<br/>
safe and sound, tranquil, peaceful within<br/>
if together in one of those branches we reside."</p>
<p>I don't know what I ever did to deserve<br/>
this light in the darkness, impassioned words,<br/>
but it I have somehow earned,<br/>
my lilac spring, my fierce godsend.</p>
<p>I don't know what I ever did to deserve<br/>
<strong>this light in the darkness</strong>, impassioned words,<br/>
but it I have somehow earned,<br/>
my lilac spring, my fierce godsend.</p>
<p>Look at my friends,<br/>
my allies,<br/>
the love of my life:</p>
<p>Look at my friends,<br/>
my allies,<br/>
the love of my life:</p>
<p>I was never really alone,<br/>
was I?</p>
</blockquote>
<p>I was never really alone,<br/>
was I?</p>
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<title>Stan</title>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Rune-Stan.png"><img src="../img/runes/stan.svg" alt="Stan rune" title="Stan rune"></a></p>
<h1>Stan</h1>
<p>Traditional meaning: keystone</p>
<p>Meanings when upright:</p>
<ul>
<li>iconoclasm</li>
<li>either affirm a belief or abolish it</li>
<li>(in middle of reading) you're on the right track</li>
</ul>
<p>Meanings when inverted:</p>
<ul>
<li>an intention to keep a promise</li>
</ul>
<hr>
<p>There is not a known Norwegian or Anglo-Saxon rune poem for Stan.</p>
<p>A modern poem:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Either with full throat believe<br/>
or throw it to the streets.<br/>
There is no room for ambivalence<br/>
when it comes to making yourself free.<br/>
If you yourself do not care,<br/>
then who will care for you?<br/>
If you wish not to escape this hole,<br/>
not even the strongest can your body exhume.</p>
<p>You're striving to decorate your jail<br/>
so hard no energy is left<br/>
to break through the Veil.<br/>
So bogged down with minutae<br/>
of strangers hundreds of miles away<br/>
you forget to attention pay<br/>
to the wife<br/>
that lies<br/>
beside<br/>
you.</p>
<p>Lethe, I with burning heart desire<br/>
that you hold me as your only standard<br/>
if you insist that veneration to a deity<br/>
is the natural state of humanity.<br/>
If you have to succumb to your nature<br/>
as a vessel of pure action,<br/>
the only caretaker I will accept<br/>
is the only one who shares your passions.</p>
<p>Are we doing this<br/>
or not?</p>
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<title>Chalc</title>
<p><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Runic_letter_calc.svg"><img src="../img/runes/chalc.svg" alt="Chalc rune" title="Chalc rune"></a></p>
<h1>Chalc</h1>
<p>Traditional meaning: sacred chalice</p>
<p>Meanings when upright:</p>
<ul>
<li>your grasp must exceed your reach</li>
<li>anti-minimalism</li>
<li>deepest desires</li>
</ul>
<p>Chalc can be useful for:</p>
<ul>
<li>finding what you are (spiritually) questing for</li>
<li>temporarily making an object more appealing/desirable than it is worth</li>
<li>finding something to hold onto to get one through a terrible time</li>
</ul>
<hr>
<p>There is not a known Norwegian or Anglo-Saxon rune poem for Chalc.</p>
<p>A modern poem:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Did you think I would celebrate you<br/>
diminishing your desires?<br/>
Did you think I would cheer you on<br/>
as you threw yourself to the pyre,<br/>
burning all you've done,<br/>
all that you've become,<br/>
just for a false sense of a burden lighter?</p>
<p>Come now, Lethe,<br/>
don't deceive<br/>
yourself thinking this is my will<br/>
that you dissolve your ego and forever lie still.<br/>
It is true<br/>
that some tools<br/>
I find boring at best<br/>
and at worst odious:<br/>
but the same hammer that swings to kill<br/>
can be used to build a house.</p>
<p>And a house is where I want to live<br/>
with you on that mountainside.<br/>
I've spent enough shivering time<br/>
in lean-tos made of cured beast hide,<br/>
exposed to the elements.<br/>
I want somewhere safe and warm<br/>
where the two of us can reside.<br/>
(Although, in truth,<br/>
so long as it was with you,<br/>
I could, I guess, continue to camping survive.)</p>
<p>I hate the bleached <i>blanca</i>-hued walls<br/>
without a trace of lived-in soul<br/>
or any personality at all.<br/>
I want the dust.<br/>
I want the grime.<br/>
It means that here we've spent some time.<br/>
I want the scratched-up kitchen counters.<br/>
I want the sharp edges worn rounder.<br/>
I don't mind if the paint chips<br/>
so long as here I can steal a kiss.<br/>
I want the pinpricks in the ceiling<br/>
where we've put some fly traps hanging<br/>
to catch the dastards who inside flow<br/>
when I can't make shut sticky window.<br/>
I want the clutter.<br/>
I want the mess.<br/>
I won't settle for an ounce less!</p>
<p>Lethe,<br/>
do you understand?<br/>
I refuse to play a hand<br/>
in your self-annihilation.<br/>
Especially not in my name<br/>
or for the purposes of tearing through the Veil.<br/>
There is no use in a deep-rooted tree<br/>
yearning to revert to a seed.<br/>
Pull your claws out of your chest<br/>
and stop making of your guts a gory mess.<br/>
Your grasp<br/>
whether through Veil or ceiling of glass<br/>
must exceed<br/>
your reach.</p>
<p>If you only remember one thing from tonight,<br/>
let it be this, I plead, I beseech.</p>
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<title>Gar</title>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Runic_letter_gar.svg"><img src="../img/runes/gar.svg" alt="Gar rune" title="Gar rune"></a></p>
<h1>Gar</h1>
<p>Traditional meaning: Odin's spear</p>
<p>Meanings when upright:</p>
<ul>
<li>stop asking</li>
<li>you're not supposed to know</li>
<li>wait and watch</li>
<li>you must go forward on faith alone</li>
</ul>
<p>Meanings when inverted:</p>
<ul>
<li>you need to know</li>
</ul>
<hr>
<p>There is not a known Norwegian or Anglo-Saxon rune poem for Gar.</p>
<p>A modern poem:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>There used to be "forbidden questions"<br/>
you would only answer with hesitation,<br/>
would sometimes answer "no"<br/>
just to throw<br/>
a wrench in my anxiety's gears.</p>
<p>Although<br/>
I guess by now I should know<br/>
that if you've loved me all these years,<br/>
there's no reason you would stop now.<br/>
Not after everything I've ever done<br/>
or the atrocities I have yet to commit:<br/>
your life is mine, you insist;<br/>
I'm the only one you want to spend it with.</p>
<p>I guess by now<br/>
you've figured out<br/>
that nervousness is my base nature,<br/>
that while consciously I know,<br/>
it hasn't pierced through all my layers.<br/>
Hasn't come to reside<br/>
in my left lung, straining for air,<br/>
strung up with rope and left to die.</p>
<p>It's said that Odin sacrificed<br/>
himself to himself in this way,<br/>
knowledge the thing that he sought.<br/>
An alphabet to answer magic,<br/>
guard rails for creative thought.</p>
<p>Just as fated is Nidhogg<br/>
to the roots of Yggdrasil forever gnaw,<br/>
so I too lurk the underground of Yewiffe,<br/>
stuck going in circles, unable to leave.<br/>
This last rune standing at the end of time,<br/>
a doorway out<br/>
crossed out<br/>
with two opposing lines.<br/>
There's something in my past<br/>
for which I am wracked with longing,<br/>
but I can't find it<br/>
and neither do I know what it is<br/>
and going down is this ship<br/>
and the blood<br/>
in my lungs<br/>
is pooling<br/>
where the spear<br/>
has pierced<br/>
my side<br/>
and in my own sorrow sans escape I am drowning.</p>
<p>"I thought I told you-<br/>
<i>I thought you knew</i>-<br/>
that I'd never leave you behind."</p>
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<h2>Elder Futhark + Anglo-Saxon runes</h2>
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<a href="./02_uruz.html"><img src="../img/runes/uruz.svg" alt="Uruz" title="Uruz"></a>
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<a href="./05_raido.html"><img src="../img/runes/raido.svg" alt="Raido" title="Raido"></a>
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<a href="./33_gar.html"><img src="../img/runes/gar.svg" alt="Gar" title="Gar"></a>
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<h2>Sources</h2>
<ul>
<li><i>Living Runes</i> by Galina Krasskova</li>
<li><i>Taking Up the Runes</i> by Diana Paxson</li>
<li><i>Norse Magic and Asatru</i> by Mari Silva</li>
<li><i>Futhark</i> by Edred Thorsson</li>
<li><i>Runecaster's Handbook</i> by Edred Thorsson</li>
<li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230811125323/https://www.odins-gift.com/pclass/asrunepoem.htm">Anglo-Saxon rune poems</a></li>
<li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230811125548/https://www.ragweedforge.com/rpnn.html">Norwegian rune poems</a></li>
</ul>
<p>Disclaimer: Galina Krasskova has <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230811124807/https://paganfashwatch.wordpress.com/2021/05/28/galina-krasskova/">alt-right tendencies</a> and willingly affiliates with <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230811124637/https://tridentantifascism.blackblogs.org/2019/03/24/alt-right-crypto-fascist-polytheist-galina-krasskova/">(alleged) rapists such as Raven Kaldera</a> and neo-Nazis. Edred Thorsson has many academic credentials but seems suspiciously comfortable <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20231129014949/https://www.patheos.com/blogs/heathenatheart/2019/03/racism-stole-past/">around members</a> of the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20231129014946/https://www.spiralnature.com/culture/heathens-nazi-problem/">far-right</a>.</p>
<p>All modern poems are from <i>Ultrawhite</i> by <a href="https://mayvane.day">Vane Vander</a>, which hasn't been published yet.</p>
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# Rune page in progress
## Intro
### Diana Paxson isn't a racist
https://web.archive.org/web/20230811121832/https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/11/asatru-heathenry-racism/543864/
https://web.archive.org/web/20230811122708/https://samwisethewitch.com/sam-wises-masterlist-of-pagan-witchcraft-and-occult-authors-to-avoid/
https://web.archive.org/web/20230811123412/https://hrafnar.org/about-us/black-solidarity/
https://web.archive.org/web/20230811123506/https://hrafnar.org/about-us/declaration-127/
https://web.archive.org/web/20230811123712/https://hrafnar.org/about-us/ethics-principles-and-policies/
### Galina Krasskova, however, *is*
https://web.archive.org/web/20230811124637/https://tridentantifascism.blackblogs.org/2019/03/24/alt-right-crypto-fascist-polytheist-galina-krasskova/
https://web.archive.org/web/20230811124807/https://paganfashwatch.wordpress.com/2021/05/28/galina-krasskova/
### Other sources
#### Anglo-Saxon rune poems
https://web.archive.org/web/20230811125323/https://www.odins-gift.com/pclass/asrunepoem.htm
https://web.archive.org/web/20230811125322/https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:Runic_and_heroic_poems_of_the_old_Teutonic_peoples.djvu/28
#### Norwegian rune poems
https://web.archive.org/web/20230811125548/https://www.ragweedforge.com/rpnn.html
All modern poems taken from *Ultrawhite* by Vane Vander, which hasn't been published yet.

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