![]() These concepts and deities also embodied magical properties, the powers and qualities of the letter and the concept being inseparable. The 24 letters of the alphabet are associated with concepts and deities which were important to the people who used the language. The names of the runes are not provided in Elder Futhark and have to instead be reconstructed from rune poems written in the later Futhark. However the Elder Futhark was almost certainly in use centuries before these earliest inscriptions and therefore predates the time of Christ. and the language itself was in use until around the 8th century when it was replaced by the Younger Futhark (which had fewer letters) and the Anglo Saxon Futhark (which had more). The earliest known inscriptions that we have come from Denmark and date to around 160 A.D. The language itself is little understood and mostly forgotten now. The Elder Futhark is a set of 24 runes (letters) and is the earliest stage of this alphabet that we know of. ![]() The runes are both an alphabet and a divinatory and magical symbol set. I occasionally turn to them for guidance and contemplate them in my meditations. ![]() They are part of my magical toolbox and form part of my understanding of the cosmos. I have been using the runes since that time in the early 90s although not religiously, so to speak. Following both a recent visit by a friend to Scandinavia and a conversation with another friend on rune magic, both of which coincided with the unearthing of some old journals in storage, I came across some notes from 30 years ago which I wanted to share with you this month.
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