![]() ![]() For example, one of the biggest names in runes is Edred Thorsson otherwise known as Stephen Flowers. It is also however due to racists steering people incorrectly for their own motivations. Partly this tendency is due to the area of Germanic studies becoming highly taboo due to the post-WWII period associating it with Nazism and it is also partly due to a lack of reliable scholarship when the pagan community needed it so the pagan community turned to earlier work from the racist past. The prevalence of the Elder Futhark system is primarily grounded in the work of the earliest, and indeed racist, heathens who were trying to sell people on the concept. Why are these Norse Heathens using the Elder Futhark that was not used by the culture they are patterning their religion on and that doesn’t fit the language or the culture when they have access to the system of runes that they actually did use? The answer is not actually very simple and is hard to swallow in some cases. The Vikings utilized instead the Younger Futhark, a set of sixteen runes that actually fit their language. Yet despite the majority of heathens being Norse heathens, the vast majority of heathens who use the runes utilize the Elder Futhark, a set of twenty four runes used and discarded hundreds of years before the Vikings. There is not really a good reason for this except for prevalence of the imagery in popular literature, culture, and mythology. The vast majority of heathens are Norse heathens that are focused on the Viking age right before the era of conversion. So new or old, this is for you.įirst, there are some glaring inconsistencies to examine. I am also intending this to be a brief introduction to the Runes. ![]() ![]() You are likely to find your thoughts and feelings and opinions challenged, that is the point. I am bound to ruffle some feathers, but all I am truly trying to achieve is to get you to think about some of these things so just stick with me and keep an open mind. Furthermore, the runes like heathenry in general do have a racism issue. Those thoughts for many of us have become set and now here I come in the 11 th hour trying to upend your thoughts and feelings. Let me put it like this, the runes suffer from the same issue as any part of religious ideology in that once you have formed your opinions on them they are very difficult to adjust no matter how false they may actually be. The runes present a major problem in heathenry and paganism in general that most people are not even aware of. ![]()
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