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<title>Ior</title>
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<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>
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<h1>Ior</h1>
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<p>Traditional meaning: world-serpent</p>
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<p>Meanings when upright:</p>
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<ul>
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<li>need for self-boundaries</li>
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<li>androgyny</li>
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<li>see the other side of an issue</li>
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<li>need for protection</li>
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</ul>
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<p>Meanings when inverted:</p>
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<li>poor boundaries</li>
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</ul>
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<p>Ior can be useful for:</p>
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<ul>
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<li>discovering hidden secrets/fears/anxieties</li>
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<li>warding and protecting</li>
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<li>learning how to navigate the emotional aspect of relationships</li>
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</ul>
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<hr>
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<p>Anglo-Saxon rune poem:</p>
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<blockquote>Iar byþ eafix and ðeah a bruceþ<br>fodres on foldan, hafaþ fægerne eard<br>wætre beworpen, ðær he wynnum leofaþ.</blockquote>
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<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>
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<p>There is not a Norwegian rune poem for Ior.</p>
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<p>A modern poem:</p>
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<blockquote>
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<p>Sealing myself in skin of scales<br/>
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means dropping the markings of sex.<br/>
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Creature divine that lies truly between<br/>
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but sans the blessings of femaleness.</p>
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<p>Nidhogg lies trapped underneath<br/>
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the thick roots of Yggdrasil,<br/>
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but I cannot allow Yewiffe to create<br/>
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a jail for me out of my raging guilt.</p>
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<p>If I allow the gnawing inside<br/>
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to render my psyche frail,<br/>
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how will I have the strength to maintain this form<br/>
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and manage to slip past the Veil?<br/>
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It shifts in form and thickness<br/>
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like a guard patrolling on duty,<br/>
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but I must be quicker, protean,<br/>
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in this conflict between us that rages constantly.</p>
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<p>After all, there's a prize,<br/>
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a woman I've been yearning to reunite<br/>
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with my entire Inside-bound life,<br/>
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waiting for me on the other side.</p>
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