<html> <head> <title>Ior</title> <link href="./style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" title="main" media="all"> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0"> <link rel="icon" href="../img/runes/ior.svg"> </head> <body> <p class="center"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Runic_letter_ior.svg"><img src="../img/runes/ior.svg" alt="Ior rune" title="Ior rune"></a></p> <h1>Ior</h1> <p>Traditional meaning: world-serpent</p> <p>Meanings when upright:</p> <ul> <li>need for self-boundaries</li> <li>androgyny</li> <li>see the other side of an issue</li> <li>need for protection</li> </ul> <p>Meanings when inverted:</p> <ul> <li>poor boundaries</li> </ul> <p>Ior can be useful for:</p> <ul> <li>discovering hidden secrets/fears/anxieties</li> <li>warding and protecting</li> <li>learning how to navigate the emotional aspect of relationships</li> </ul> <hr> <p>Anglo-Saxon rune poem:</p> <blockquote>Iar byþ eafix and ðeah a bruceþ<br>fodres on foldan, hafaþ fægerne eard<br>wætre beworpen, ðær he wynnum leofaþ.</blockquote> <blockquote>Iar is a river fish and yet it always feeds on land;<br>it has a fair abode encompassed by water, where it lives in happiness.</blockquote> <p>There is not a Norwegian rune poem for Ior.</p> <p>A modern poem:</p> <blockquote> <p>Sealing myself in skin of scales<br/> means <strong>dropping the markings of sex.<br/> Creature divine that lies truly between<br/> but sans the blessings of femaleness.</strong></p> <p>Nidhogg lies trapped underneath<br/> the thick roots of Yggdrasil,<br/> but I cannot allow Yewiffe to create<br/> a jail for me out of my raging guilt.</p> <p>If I allow the gnawing inside<br/> to render my psyche frail,<br/> how will I have the strength to maintain this form<br/> and manage to slip past the Veil?<br/> It shifts in form and thickness<br/> like a guard patrolling on duty,<br/> but I must be quicker, protean,<br/> in this conflict between us that rages constantly.</p> <p>After all, there's a prize,<br/> a woman I've been yearning to reunite<br/> with my entire Inside-bound life,<br/> waiting for me on the other side.</p> </blockquote> </body> </html>