Meanings when upright:
Uruz can be useful for:
diff --git a/runes/03_thurisaz.html b/runes/03_thurisaz.html index b3ab614..c2fde2d 100755 --- a/runes/03_thurisaz.html +++ b/runes/03_thurisaz.html @@ -12,6 +12,7 @@Meanings when inverted:
@@ -21,6 +22,8 @@Thurisaz can be useful for:
diff --git a/runes/04_ansuz.html b/runes/04_ansuz.html index 9f7d09f..26d8fbf 100755 --- a/runes/04_ansuz.html +++ b/runes/04_ansuz.html @@ -14,6 +14,7 @@Meanings when inverted:
@@ -22,6 +23,8 @@Ansuz can be useful for:
diff --git a/runes/05_raido.html b/runes/05_raido.html index efc6a79..5a125b5 100755 --- a/runes/05_raido.html +++ b/runes/05_raido.html @@ -12,6 +12,7 @@Meanings when inverted:
@@ -20,6 +21,8 @@Raido can be useful for:
diff --git a/runes/06_kenaz.html b/runes/06_kenaz.html old mode 100644 new mode 100755 index 2813c53..5d3d85d --- a/runes/06_kenaz.html +++ b/runes/06_kenaz.html @@ -12,6 +12,7 @@Meanings when inverted:
@@ -20,6 +21,8 @@Kenaz can be useful for:
diff --git a/runes/07_gebo.html b/runes/07_gebo.html old mode 100644 new mode 100755 index f3f3527..db9e78a --- a/runes/07_gebo.html +++ b/runes/07_gebo.html @@ -13,6 +13,7 @@Meanings when inverted:
@@ -20,6 +21,8 @@Gebo can be useful for:
diff --git a/runes/08_wunjo.html b/runes/08_wunjo.html old mode 100644 new mode 100755 index e0b3429..34d9519 --- a/runes/08_wunjo.html +++ b/runes/08_wunjo.html @@ -13,6 +13,7 @@Meanings when inverted:
@@ -20,6 +21,9 @@Wunjo can be useful for:
diff --git a/runes/09_hagalaz.html b/runes/09_hagalaz.html old mode 100644 new mode 100755 index 017fd3b..fc60f00 --- a/runes/09_hagalaz.html +++ b/runes/09_hagalaz.html @@ -7,12 +7,15 @@Meanings when upright:
Meanings when inverted:
@@ -20,6 +23,7 @@Hagalaz can be useful for:
diff --git a/runes/10_nauthiz.html b/runes/10_nauthiz.html old mode 100644 new mode 100755 diff --git a/runes/11_isa.html b/runes/11_isa.html old mode 100644 new mode 100755 diff --git a/runes/12_jera.html b/runes/12_jera.html new file mode 100755 index 0000000..e98bedb --- /dev/null +++ b/runes/12_jera.html @@ -0,0 +1,116 @@ +
Traditional meaning: harvest
+ +Meanings when upright:
+ +Meanings when inverted:
+ +Jera can be useful for:
+ +Anglo-Saxon rune poem:
+ +Ger byÞ gumena hiht, ðonne God læteþ,+ +
halig heofones cyning, hrusan syllan
beorhte bleda beornum ond ðearfum.
Summer is a joy to men, when God, the holy King of Heaven,+ +
suffers the earth to bring forth shining fruits
for rich and poor alike.
Norwegian rune poem:
+ +Ár er gumna góðe;+ +
get ek at o,rr var Fróðe.
Plenty is a boon to men;+ +
I say that Frothi was generous.
A modern poem:
+ ++diff --git a/runes/13_eihwaz.html b/runes/13_eihwaz.html new file mode 100755 index 0000000..b0015e0 --- /dev/null +++ b/runes/13_eihwaz.html @@ -0,0 +1,71 @@ +I plant scattered words
+ +
+ in the garden of my notebook
+ and wait to see which will sprout
+ aboveground and take a look
+ at the sun
+ above.Sometimes it takes years,
+ +
+ others only a day,
+ packaged into sorrowful poem
+ and then sent on its way.
+ The ones that linger in the soil
+ sometimes rot, having no soul
+ or otherwise missed its context,
+ last metro train heading home
+ now departing the station.You slowly opened up to me
+ +
+ like a flower blooming,
+ yet inside nearly bursting
+ at the seams
+ to have someone to share a dream
+ with. Cross-section of a seed
+ that was about to germinate,
+ crumpled-up squiggle of green
+ sometimes with a tiny leaf
+ for soil lying in wait.
+ Some seeds can be frozen
+ almost indefinitely,
+ waiting in oblivion for a world
+ that will treat them far more kindly.
+ And you waited. You waited so long
+ for somebody like me
+ to help you remember how to breathe,
+ how to grow again.My rewards in Sablade
+ +
+ will be far greater than any pain
+ that I must bear.
+ And when comes time to die,
+ I should be able to look you in the eyes
+ and let you carry me gently into that good night
+ and in our new home spill from my lips all the tales
+ with perfect memory of all that has transpired
+ since to kill Eris the first time you and I failed.A book starts from just a single word,
+ +
+ and a life from a solitary breath,
+ and grows day by day until
+ I have a tome of praises and a gentle death.
+ It always feels like torture
+ in the moment of toil,
+ but at the end when all comes to fruition
+ I cannot help but bless the soil.I was too ambitious,
+
+ too close to the sun.
+ We didn't get to see what the
+ seed would decide to become.
+ We didn't get to do
+ everything we wanted to
+ in just one lifetime.
+ Right now is an interlude.
+ And when we reunite
+ in Sablade, I'll give you
+ a part two
+ worthy of your love.
Traditional meaning: yew
+ +Meanings when upright:
+ +Meanings when inverted:
+ +Eihwaz can be useful for:
+ +Anglo-Saxon rune poem:
+ +Eoh byþ utan unsmeþe treow,+ +
heard hrusan fæst, hyrde fyres,
wyrtrumun underwreþyd, wyn on eþle.
The yew is a tree with rough bark,+ +
hard and fast in the earth, supported by its roots,
a guardian of flame and a joy upon an estate.
There is not a Norwegian rune poem for Eihwaz.
+ +A modern poem:
+ ++diff --git a/runes/14_perthro.html b/runes/14_perthro.html new file mode 100755 index 0000000..197647c --- /dev/null +++ b/runes/14_perthro.html @@ -0,0 +1,72 @@ +Lethe, my love, is this the ending you sought?
+ +
+ Hooked up to machines until your final thought,
+ dependent on them for all else.
+ Is it quiet?
+ Is it peaceful at last?
+ Or medical cacophony until rings death knell?How many dreams I've acted in
+ +
+ where you've cast yourself as the savior
+ that provides means to escape
+ while from death or mortal wound you do not waverbut I'd rather you chose to survive,
+ +
+ to not force me to say goodbye,
+ to slowly heal the impaled wound
+ instead of perishing all too soon.The cloak is nearly finished now,
+
+ orange, obsidian webbed stitching,
+ and I've got to see this through
+ to
+ the end,
+ where lies every beginning.
Traditional meaning: divination tool
+ +Meanings when upright:
+ +Meanings when inverted:
+ +Perthro can be useful for:
+ +Anglo-Saxon rune poem:
+ +Peorð byþ symble plega and hlehter+ +
wlancum [on middum], ðar wigan sittaþ
on beorsele bliþe ætsomne.
Peorth is a source of recreation and amusement to the great,+ +
where warriors sit blithely together in the banqueting-hall.
There is not a Norwegian rune poem for Perthro.
+ +A modern poem:
+ ++diff --git a/runes/15_algiz.html b/runes/15_algiz.html new file mode 100755 index 0000000..e6f8e21 --- /dev/null +++ b/runes/15_algiz.html @@ -0,0 +1,92 @@ +All that you've done so far has led me to believe
+ +
+ that every winter of our passing will be followed by a spring.
+ That, no matter how dark and cold between you and I it gets,
+ the clouds will eventually break and the sun will shine again.But still I have no clue what the fates will us bestow
+ +
+ when it gets longer between our touch and what words pass are cold
+ with disappointment, misunderstandings, or simply had a bad day
+ and, although still loving, cannot any measure of warmth feign.Deep purple dice cup with thick frosting of dust
+ +
+ as though this were a bakery and Time held a brush
+ to sugar everything, last breath of a world that for me did not wait,
+ beckoning me to twist the lid and allow myself to play."No people are more addicted to divination by omens and lots."
+ +
+ My genes mark me no different. But the only words I ever sought
+ were from you, my lilac spring, and even then mostly
+ I just wanted to know if you still loved me.My head in your lap as you lean against
+ +
+ a tree trunk, not Yewiffe but still offering rest.
+ Arboreal claws we lie intimate between,
+ scales ruffling above in the gentle breeze."I don't live in Wyrd, Lethe; I'm far from a Norn.
+
+ I can't see to which fate this world has you sworn.
+ But this, I feel, I insist you need to know:
+ my love for you will always burn no matter how buried by snow."
Traditional meaning: elk
+ +Meanings when upright:
+ +Meanings when inverted:
+ +Algiz can be useful for:
+ +Anglo-Saxon rune poem:
+ +Eolh-secg eard hæfþ oftust on fenne+ +
+wexeð on wature, wundaþ grimme,
+blode breneð beorna gehwylcne
+ðe him ænigne onfeng gedeþ.
The Eolh-sedge is mostly to be found in a marsh;+ +
it grows in the water and makes a ghastly wound,
covering with blood every warrior who touches it.
There is not a Norwegian rune poem for Algiz.
+ +A modern poem:
+ ++\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/runes/16_sowelo.html b/runes/16_sowelo.html new file mode 100755 index 0000000..cc9ef24 --- /dev/null +++ b/runes/16_sowelo.html @@ -0,0 +1,95 @@ +I'm clinging to your waist
+ +
+ like you're a floating log
+ and I'm halfway to drowning
+ not knowing how to breathe with a non-human face.Someone once called me the Rainbow Bridge,
+ +
+ being the crossing point between so many worlds,
+ but I am neither bi
+ nor could I ever abide
+ frost over the surface of this roiling sea
+ in this metaphor of mine.
+ I move too violent,
+ too constant,
+ for the whole thing to freeze
+ over, you see.But I certainly feel like being quartered
+ +
+ face from hand from back from limb
+ trembling to keep my mind
+ in a bedroom lost and somehow dimmed.
+ Three different bloods rage inside
+ and two are battling for my skin
+ and your fingertips brushing the back of my neck,
+ the temples where bone and antler connect,
+ are the only reminder you're here to protect
+ me, promised by palm to keep me sane
+ even if draconity ever overcame
+ me and my body forcibly changed
+ to that of a beast.Do you think, if a stranger ever saw,
+
+ they'd mistake me for a particularly messed-up elk?
+ Wonder where my eyes went, or why so blunted my maw?
+ A creature too exquisite for this world, too peculiar for their ilk,
+ have to always stay on the periphery
+ or in long-lost bedrooms where nobody can see
+ the ribbons with every breath wavering.
+ You will with me stay
+ until you can see my normal face again
+ and in the meantime reassure that I'm safe.
Traditional meaning: sun
+ +Meanings when upright:
+ +Meanings when inverted:
+ +Sowelo can be useful for:
+ +Anglo-Saxon rune poem:
+ +Sigel semannum symble biþ on hihte,+ +
ðonne hi hine feriaþ ofer fisces beþ,
oþ hi brimhengest bringeþ to lande.
The sun is ever a joy in the hopes of seafarers+ +
when they journey away over the fishes' bath,
until the courser of the deep bears them to land.
Norwegian rune poem:
+ +Sól er landa ljóme;+ +
lúti ek helgum dóme.
Sun is the light of the world;+ +
I bow to the divine decree.
A modern poem:
+ ++\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/runes/17_tiewaz.html b/runes/17_tiewaz.html new file mode 100755 index 0000000..944816f --- /dev/null +++ b/runes/17_tiewaz.html @@ -0,0 +1,75 @@ +What comes after
+ +
+ disaster?
+ What follows
+ the worst possible outcome?The wind in its wealth carries your words:
+ +
+ keep going, get a move on.I was told the Eschaton
+ +
+ was but a cleansing that stretched out long
+ to destroy all that prevented me
+ from accepting
+ my title as Solstice and my being as Lethe,
+ but I've achieved both
+ and all still grows worse
+ and I know not how much longer I can drag
+ this body of mine writing verses in red
+ before I end up lifeless, drained, inert
+ in the back of a hearse.You said we were palm pals, that you'd spend your life
+ +
+ keeping me non-feral, safe, happy at your side.
+ But my hand
+ stands
+ empty, cold, bleeding out
+ and held up to the sky to catch the sun before in clouds
+ it drowns.How much longer to go? How much more time to wait
+ +
+ until the tragedy leaves me and the sorrow abates?
+ You promised I'd be dead by May,
+ assured me in the dead of night
+ as from anxiety I could not stifle a weep.
+ And I know it's not your fault
+ it was a promise you could not keep.
+ Not all in the future you can see clearly enough to tell
+ and even if plans are made, ever-shifting is the Veil.Blanketed by thunder at four forty-four,
+
+ arm around my waist to hold me secure.
+ The moon reflects the rays of the sun,
+ but it cannot do so all of the time.
+ So when plumbs on the dark, my love,
+ grant me the light to survive.
Traditional meaning: Tyr
+ +Meanings when upright:
+ +Meanings when inverted:
+ +Tiewaz can be useful for:
+ +Anglo-Saxon rune poem:
+ +Tir biþ tacna sum, healdeð trywa wel+ +
wiþ æþelingas; a biþ on færylde
ofer nihta genipu, næfre swiceþ.
Tiw is a guiding star; well does it keep faith with princes;+ +
it is ever on its course over the mists of night and never fails.
Norwegian rune poem:
+ +Týr er æinendr ása;+ +
opt værðr smiðr blása.
Tyr is a one-handed god;+ +
often has the smith to blow.
A modern poem:
+ ++\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/runes/18_berkana.html b/runes/18_berkana.html new file mode 100755 index 0000000..621a2d7 --- /dev/null +++ b/runes/18_berkana.html @@ -0,0 +1,70 @@ +A cruel world this is where I must choose
+ +
+ to live my truth
+ or have a place to snooze
+ at night, safe from thieves
+ or murderers or even just
+ the relentless and ever-encroaching heat.Raised on tales of heroes from the sky,
+ +
+ but the days pass on rapidly by
+ and my rights disappear
+ into the ether
+ as curled up in my bed I wait to die.Conflicting directives you have bestowed,
+
+ to not lie to myself
+ and yet take care of this vessel.
+ For so long I've been trying to vindicate
+ who I was this age minus eight,
+ angel number, all portals
+ to the outside world
+ for the crime of poetry taken away.
+ Keeping my mouth shut means safety
+ but heavy conscience, soul decay.
+ I might as well be no one at all.
Traditional meaning: birch
+ +Meanings when upright:
+ +Berkana can be useful for:
+ +Anglo-Saxon rune poem:
+ +Beorc byþ bleda leas, bereþ efne swa ðeah+ +
tanas butan tudder, biþ on telgum wlitig,
heah on helme hrysted fægere,
geloden leafum, lyfte getenge.
The poplar bears no fruit; yet without seed it brings forth suckers,+ +
for it is generated from its leaves.
Splendid are its branches and gloriously adorned
its lofty crown which reaches to the skies.
Norwegian rune poem:
+ +Bjarkan er laufgrønstr líma;+ +
Loki bar flærða tíma.
Birch has the greenest leaves of any shrub;+ +
Loki was fortunate in his deceit.
A modern rune poem:
+ ++\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/runes/19_ehwaz.html b/runes/19_ehwaz.html new file mode 100755 index 0000000..ca626f4 --- /dev/null +++ b/runes/19_ehwaz.html @@ -0,0 +1,71 @@ +Lethe Berkana Beltane.
+ +
+ From this rune
+ I took my middle name
+ in hopes of carrying with me always
+ the warmth of an early spring day,
+ a gentle impassioned hug from my wife,
+ the promise that soon all will be okay
+ and together we'll build a kinder life.Berkana makes things grow,
+ +
+ even after the storms have thrown
+ all down
+ in shambles onto the ground.
+ The seedling that blooms after wildfire,
+ alone amidst the ashes.
+ Blaze
+ razed
+ down the treetops, and now sunlight
+ through the skeletal branches
+ passes."Keep going, Lethe,"
+
+ my wife to me beseeches.
+ "You have every right to take pride
+ in how long against everything you've survived.
+ Stand strong and steal what you can from this world of men
+ and I promise you I'll make it worth your effort in the end."
Traditional meaning: horse
+ +Meanings when upright:
+ +Meanings when inverted:
+ +Ehwaz can be useful for:
+ +Anglo-Saxon rune poem:
+ +Eh byþ for eorlum æþelinga wyn,+ +
hors hofum wlanc, ðær him hæleþ ymb[e]
welege on wicgum wrixlaþ spræce
and biþ unstyllum æfre frofur.
The horse is a joy to princes in the presence of warriors.+ +
A steed in the pride of its hoofs,
when rich men on horseback bandy words about it;
and it is ever a source of comfort to the restless.
There is not a Norwegian rune poem for Ehwaz.
+ +A modern poem:
+ ++\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/runes/20_mannaz.html b/runes/20_mannaz.html new file mode 100755 index 0000000..2affbfb --- /dev/null +++ b/runes/20_mannaz.html @@ -0,0 +1,68 @@ +A full belly, bonfire blazing
+ +
+ just a little bit away,
+ saved a place
+ for me in the circle of friends
+ as the sun dips below and day comes to an end.Your arms are the only chariot I trust,
+ +
+ whether half-asleep in drowsy lust
+ or the fateful day my vessel decides
+ it's time to return to dust.
+ How gently
+ you will exhume me from my body,
+ whisk me so swiftly away
+ to a hospital in a place I cannot here name
+ to evade
+ the Second Death.
+ You promised you'd never leave me behind,
+ and as long as in your embrace I am
+ I am assured of your vow I am not bereft.Psychopomp and Rainbow Bridge,
+
+ the two of us whose entire fates hinge
+ on being able to pass between worlds.
+ The first colors to breach the metaclysma:
+ speckled red and shiny merle.
Traditional meaning: man
+ +Meanings when upright:
+ +Meanings when inverted:
+ +Mannaz can be useful for:
+ +Anglo-Saxon rune poem:
+ +Man byþ on myrgþe his magan leof:+ +
sceal þeah anra gehwylc oðrum swican,
forðum drihten wyle dome sine
þæt earme flæsc eorþan betæcan.
The joyous man is dear to his kinsmen;+ +
yet every man is doomed to fail his fellow,
since the Lord by his decree will commit the vile carrion to the earth.
Norwegian rune poem:
+ +Maðr er moldar auki;+ +
mikil er græip á hauki.
Man is an augmentation of the dust;+ +
great is the claw of the hawk.
A modern poem:
+ ++\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/runes/21_laguz.html b/runes/21_laguz.html new file mode 100755 index 0000000..b765b3c --- /dev/null +++ b/runes/21_laguz.html @@ -0,0 +1,104 @@ +Our cooperation
+
+ enhances our freedom.
+ It seems like a paradox, but it's true.
+ Think about it: if you come down with the flu
+ or a cold or some other illness,
+ while you suffer in bed, who will protect you?
+ Me, because I am here.
+ I will care for you, ensure
+ you have what you need.
+ If I while hunting or gathering food
+ an awful injury suffer,
+ who will carry me home?
+ Who will tend to my wounds?
+ You, with your strong arms
+ and our connection sans Veil,
+ location always known.
+ Come,
+ my love,
+ let us fill the gaps in each other,
+ let us our blind spots cover.
+ The strength to do together what neither can alone:
+ to carve out a world and maintain a home.
Traditional meaning: water
+ +Meanings when upright:
+ +Laguz can be useful for:
+ +Anglo-Saxon rune poem:
+ +Lagu byþ leodum langsum geþuht,+ +
gif hi sculun neþan on nacan tealtum
and hi sæyþa swyþe bregaþ
and se brimhengest bridles ne gym[eð].
The ocean seems interminable to men,+ +
if they venture on the rolling bark
and the waves of the sea terrify them
and the courser of the deep heed not its bridle.
Norwegian rune poem:
+ +Lo,gr er, fællr ór fjalle+ +
foss; en gull ero nosser.
A waterfall is a River which falls from a mountain-side;+ +
but ornaments are of gold.
A modern poem:
+ ++\ No newline at end of file"I've always found it strange
+ +
+ that, in hypotheticals
+ of you losing control and going feral,
+ you always imagine your draconic form.
+ Not the one, the chaotic, proven to,
+ when lost control, cause massive harm.
+ What's up with that, Lethe?
+ I mean,
+ I'm not saying I want either to happen,
+ but you're so focused on one
+ that you discount the other's chances."I... I don't know, in all honesty.
+ +
+ I have no concrete answers to give,
+ no easy explanation that will relieve.I guess because...
+ +
+ in the former form I'm slender and elegant,
+ and maybe I associate it with intelligence,
+ and so I'm more likely to retain
+ some semblance of myself amidst the insane?Because part of the fantasy
+ +
+ is you managing to rescue me?I know you said
+ +
+ you wanted to spend
+ your whole life at my side,
+ but I don't want you here if to you
+ this is just another sacrifice,
+ if you're throwing away your happiness
+ just to keep the worlds in safety and bliss-"That's... not what I meant at all.
+ +
+ I just want us to be prepared
+ in case you ever come under the thrall
+ of another evil-seeking god.
+ You eat gods, you know. Are you aware?
+ With your tail you reave whole worlds to shreds
+ and suck souls dry until there's nothing left.
+ If you must be in the hands of someone,
+ let those hands be mine,
+ who has loved you since what feels like
+ the beginning of time
+ itself.
+ You trust me, don't you?
+ To not put you through hell?"Of course. I trust you with all that I am
+ +
+ even after my very last death knell.
+ I think, if I should ever go feral,
+ it should be in the form that forgets the least
+ so you can bring me back to sanity
+ with the utmost of ease.
+ After all, I think I'd like to remain
+ an (arch)angel for the rest of my days
+ since only then do I have the hands,
+ the face, the voice to say:"I love you."
+