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RUNE-ALPHABET


Rune-Alphabet

We all need Help in this very fast Moving and difficult world. We all need more money, better health and more love.

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We need a method, a vehicle, a means to attract more health, wealth and love into our lives, NOW!

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THE RUNES WILL!

"The murmuring Runes of the Universe, the sacred symbols of Salvation of the Cosmos are deeply buried within ourselves, in our soul as inherited memories. They call, murmur and rush within us, and we could not get them outside of us by imitation, if they were not built into us since eternity.May the murmur of the Runes Call us to action.

Wake them up!

Today we must use the Sword of the Mind (Quantum Physics), it is more polished and sharper and makes our victory certain.

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History of the Alphabet

Middle Bronze Age 19–15th c. BC

* Canaanite-Phoenician 14th c. BC

o Paleo-Hebrew 10th c. BC

o Aramaic 9th c. BC

+ Brāhmī & Indic 6th c. BC

# Tibetan 7th c.

# Khmer/Javanese 9th c.

+ Hebrew 3rd c. BC

+ Syriac 2nd c. BC

# Nabatean 2nd c. BC

* Arabic 4th c.

+ Avestan 4th to 6th c.

o Greek 9th c. BC

+ Etruscan 8th c. BC

# Latin 7th c. BC

# Runes 2nd c.

# Ogham 4th c.

+ Gothic 4th c.

+ Armenian 405

+ Glagolitic 862

+ Cyrillic 10th c.

o Samaritan 6th c. BC

o Iberian 6th c. BC

* Epigraphic South Arabian 9th c. BC

o Ge'ez 5–6th c. BC

Meroitic 3rd c. BC

Complete genealogy

The Runic alphabets are a set of related alphabets using letters (known as runes), formerly used to write Germanic languages before and shortly after the Christianization of Scandinavia and the British Isles. The Scandinavian variants are also known as Futhark (or fuþark, derived from their first six letters: F, U, Þ, A, R, and K); the Anglo-Saxon variant as Futhorc (due to sound changes undergone in Old English by the same six letters).

Overview

The earliest runic inscriptions date from ca. 150, and the alphabet was generally replaced by the Latin alphabet with Christianization, by ca. 700 in central Europe and by ca. 1100 in Scandinavia. However, the use of runes persisted for specialized purposes in Scandinavia, longest in rural Sweden until the early 20th century (used mainly for decoration as runes in Dalarna and on Runic calendars).

The three best known runic alphabets are:

* the Elder Futhark (ca. 150–800)

* the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc (400–1100)

* the Younger Futhark (800–1100)

The Younger Futhark is further divided into:

* the Danish futhark script

* the Swedish–Norwegian runic script (also: Short-twig or Rök Runes)

* the Hälsinge Runes (staveless runes)

The Younger Futhark developed further into:

* the Marcomannic Runes

* the Medieval Runes (1100–1500)

* the Dalecarlian Runes (ca. 1500–1800s)

The origins of the runic scripts are uncertain. Many characters of the elder futhark bear a close resemblance to characters from the Latin alphabet. Other candidates are the 5th to 1st century BC Northern Italic alphabets, Lepontic, Rhaetic and Venetic, all closely related to each other and themselves descended from the Old Italic alphabet. These scripts bear a remarkable resemblance to the Futhark in many regards.

Background

Inscription using both cipher runes, the elder futhark and the younger futhark, on the Rök Rune stone

The runes were introduced to, or invented by, the Germanic peoples in the 1st or 2nd century (The oldest known runic inscription dates to ca. the 160s and is found on a comb discovered in the bog of Vimose, Funen. The inscription reads harja). While at this time the Germanic language was certainly not at the Proto-Germanic stage any longer, it may still have been a continuum of dialects not yet clearly separated into the three branches of later centuries, viz. North Germanic, West Germanic and East Germanic.

Most of the early runes from the Scandinavian countries are assumed to be in the Proto-Norse, the common ancestor language of the modern North Germanic languages. No distinction is made in surviving runic inscriptions between long and short vowels, although such a distinction was certainly present phonologically in the spoken languages of the time. Similarly, there are no signs for labiovelars in the Elder Futhark (such signs were introduced in both the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc and the Gothic alphabet.

As Proto-Germanic evolved into its later language groups, the words assigned to the runes and the sounds represented by the runes themselves began to diverge somewhat, and each culture would either create new runes, rename or rearrange its rune names slightly, or even stop using obsolete runes completely, to accommodate these changes.

Thus, the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc has several runes peculiar to itself to represent diphthongs unique to (or at least prevalent in) the Anglo-Saxon dialect. However, the fact that the younger Futhark has sixteen runes, while the Elder Futhark has twenty four, is not fully explained by the some six hundred years of sound changes that had occurred in the North Germanic language group. The development here might seem rather astonishing, since the younger form of the alphabet came to use fewer different rune-signs at the same time as the development of the language led to a greater number of different phonemes than had been present at the time of the older futhark.

For example, voiced and unvoiced consonants merged in script, and so did many vowels, while the number of vowels in the spoken language increased. From about 1100, this disadvantage was eliminated in the medieval runes, which again increased the number of different signs to correspond with the number of phonemes in the language.

The name given to the signs, contrasting them with Latin or Greek letters, is attested on a 6th century alamannic rune staff as runa, and possibly as runo on the Einang stone (ca. 4th century). The name is from a root run- (Gothic runa) meaning "secret". (C.f. also Finnish, where runo was loaned to mean "poem".)

Origins

Mythological

In Norse mythology, the invention of runes is attributed to Odin: The Hávamál (stanzas 138, 139) describes how Odin receives the rune through his self-sacrifice. The text (in Old Norse and in English translation) is as follows:

Veit ec at ec hecc vindga meiði a I know that I hung on a windy tree

netr allar nío, nights all nine,

geiri vndaþr oc gefinn Oðni, wounded with a spear and given to Odin,

sialfr sialfom mer, myself to myself,

a þeim meiþi, er mangi veit, hvers hann af rótom renn. on that tree of which no man knows from where its roots run

Við hleifi mic seldo ne viþ hornigi, No bread did they give me nor a drink from a horn,

nysta ec niþr, downwards I peered,

nam ec vp rvnar, I took up the runes,

opandi nam, screaming I took them,

fell ec aptr þaðan. then I fell back from there

The Icelandic sources do not relate how the runes were transmitted to mortal men, but in 1555, the exiled Swedish archbishop Olaus Magnus recorded a tradition that a man named Kettil Runske had stolen three rune staffs from Odin and learned the runes and their magic. It is also told in Rigsþula how Rig, identified as Heimdall in the introduction, sired three sons, Thrall(slave), Churl (freeman) and Jarl (noble), on human women. These sons became the ancestors of the three classes of men indicated by their names. When Jarl reached an age when he began to handle weapons and show other signs of nobility, Rig returned and having claimed him as a son, taught him the runes.

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Younger Futhark Inscription On The Vaksala Runestone


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ROK Runestone

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Odin's Return

By Ragnar Storyteller

"In a small Northern European village in the 15th century, a young Viking Warrior comes of Age. His mother is horribly killed by a vile priest of the new slave-making religion that has over run the world.

While making a pilgrimage to his mother's grave he meets a tall dark, one-eyed stranger in a long cloak.

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He issued it only to his Viking Spirit Warrior students as private lessons.

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* Effect of the next 2000 years (Age of Aquarius) upon runic energies.

* The time of I Know the runes is here.

* Religion of the North

* The mind and psyche of the Nordic-Germanic races.

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* Health is not a word --- it is an energy.

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