Runic Postures

 

 

Here is a video of the 33 Ar-Kan Rune-Lag stances performed by Wulf at a site next to the Long Man of Wilmington in the South Saxon Mark of England. (It is recommended that this be viewed as it is and not on full screen which seems to blur the images.

 

All 33 runes can be done as a posture, moving slowly from one to the next; The idea is to make all of them harmonise and flow one to the next. There have been some slight changes to the rune-postures since this was done some years ago and I hope that the whole thing can be redone on a future video as soon as we get time to do it.

 

Each rune-stance should be accompanied by a rune-chant or rune-gealdor as the stance is performed. The rune-names can also be found on a post on this site, though they are certainly not static and can vary with the practitioner.

Woden Brotherhood

The Woden Brotherhood is the Inner Order of the Woden Folk-Religion and works with the Ar-Kan Rune-Lag together with the Hearth of Heruli which operates in the South Saxon Mark. This is being developed into an Cultic Oath-Brotherhood that will preserve the Inner Mysteries of the Woden Folk-Religion and will act as the Guardians of the Blood - the Blood Guard.

The Ar-Kan Rune-Lag is an evolving runic system, and develops the runes in accordance with the Saxon Mysteries (English Mysteries). This system carries on the tradition of Guido von List and the Armanen Orden but as a unique English system for the English Folk. It is thus essential that this is developed through an Inner Order - the Woden Brotherhood. I have shown what the name Ar-Kan Rune-Lag means, and this has to be understood as the means to the Resurrection of the Arya. This is an Aryan Runic System which is why I have referred to the Saxon Mysteries (the Saxons being the AEthlinga Caste or 'Noble Caste' i.e. the Arya).

Many years ago the original Woden's Folk Activists swore a blood-oath (using a drop of their own blood) on the WF Blood Flag, an oath that cannot be broken and has stood the test of time. This Blood Flag represents Woden's Folk itself and the Folk of Woden, given to us by Wulfgar of the Wolf's Head Hearth and which has the Edel-Rune (Odal-Rune) of the Blood & Soil stitched onto it. This is used only at the Ancestral Rite which has become a Folk-Tradition now.

The symbol of the Woden Brotherhood is the flower known as Edelweiss which is a white alpine flower whose name translates as 'Noble White' - a fitting symbol for our sacred blood struggle. The name itself is taken from the Edel-Rune which (as we have said) refers to Blood and Soil - the mystical link between the Blood of the Folk and the Soil of the Folkland. So we do have here, in this simple symbol, the mystical link between the Blood of our Folk through the Edel and also the essence of our race - the White Race. This is also a clever play-on-words for the German 'weiss' which means 'knowledge' (hence the English 'wise'), and thus Edel-Knowledge which refers to the Knowledge of the Ancestral Heritage. We have thus linked the Woden Brotherhood directly to the Blood Flag through this symbolism.

The 'Ancestral Heritage' can be seen as the Secrets of the Runes which are the key to the Blood-Memory and to the history of our Folk, going back to Thule-Scandi during the last Golden Age. The difference between the Ar-Kan Rune-Lag and the Armanen Runes is that we use the original 33 runes of the Frisian Rune-Row (Freya's Rune-Row) whereas Guido von List and the Armanen used a unique 18-Rune system he 'discovered' whilst recovering from a cataract operation which sent him blind. This, of course, hints to us that it was the god Wotan who guided him and gave to him this knowledge for the Folk. This certainly does not invalidate this as a rune-row because it was done through a mystical experience - indeed it makes it vastly more important since what we have of the old rune-meanings will not give us the full story. But the work of the Woden Brotherhood is to continue this tradition, and to bring into the light new Keys to the Mysteries of the Ancient Runes.

We shall now call the Ar-Kan Rune-Lag 33 rune-row by the name Saxon Runes since these are the Runes of the Arya and also contain the keys to the Resurrection of the Arya - what we call the Gral-Runes (Cweorth-Calc-Stan-Gar). These last four have no rune-meanings which is because they are transcendent runes - Gral Runes - that can have no meanings at a mundane level  but do have meanings at a higher spiritual level as the Gral-Runes. The last rune - Gar - which is the Spear of Woden - tells us that these are the 'Gift of Ing'. This rune represents the Sacred Centre and thus the rune-row is indeed the 'Gift of Ing'.

Since the Saxons worshipped the High God of the Arya  (Irmin/Arman) then they must (according to the Listian Tradition) represent the Armanen - the Priesthood. This must be so if von List is correct in his interpretation of the three castes, the Armanen being the Priesthood Caste, and thus the Ingvaeones being the farmer-provider caste (this fits with Sheaf-Ing as the bringer of agriculture). I have developed this further in the Saxons in England. This is why I have seen fit to move towards an Irminist Cult which would be a must to develop this idea further and create a true Woden Priesthood - even though this not be a form of centralised priesthood. Thus the change in role of the Woden Brotherhood in order to bring this about.

Ar-Kan Rune-Lag

Ar - This has the Aryan Root *ar which means 'movement' and also 'to plough' which links this to the title Arya. It is also connected to the Sun, hence the idea of 'movement' or rather 'apparent movement'. The Arya were the People of the Plough, and here we can connect this to Sheaf-Ing who was the Aryan Culture-Bearer who brought the growing of corn to the Folk at the end of the Golden Age. Ar-Ra is a formula for the Sun as the Spiritual Sun-Physical Sun with the last part being the Egyptian name of the Sun-God.

Kan - The Aryan Root *gan or *kan has the same meanings as the Ken-Rune or Kan-Rune, that of 'generator'. Thus Ar-Kan has the same meaning as Aryan - 'Sun-Generator'. We have also the meaning 'to know' or 'knowledge' ('ken' or 'Kenning') and thus 'Sun-Knowledge' or 'Solar Knowledge'. This rune is also associated with the Serpent-Knowledge which is inherent in the Ken-Rune itself. The Serpent is also connected to the Kundalini (Kun-dal-ini) or Kandil-Force, which could be represented by the candle - i.e. 'Fire' or 'Flame'. This is the Fire-Serpent or Fire-Snake.

The title Ar-Kan is thus the 'Sun-Generator' and the 'Solar Knowledge of the Fire-Snake'. Ar is also the Eagle and the 'Law of the Arya', as well as being symbolic of the Imperium. This is the Sun-Eagle or the Solar Hawk which represents the 'Solar Mysteries' and the 'Mysteries of the Arya'. The Eagle, perched on top of Iggdrasil/Irminsul is symbolic of the Sky-Gods (AEsir-Gods) and of Asgard. The Hawk between the eyes represents the Third-Eye or the Hawk-Eye which is opened through the Sun-Initiation and the awakening of the Fire-Snake.

Rune - This means 'secret' or 'mystery' and refers to the 'secret knowledge' - in fact the Secret Knowledge of the Arya. The fact that the runes are actually 'secret symbols' attests to them being far more than alphabetical letters, as some would have us believe. The word speaks for itself.

Lag - The meaning of this relates to the Lagu-Rune in the sense of its meaning of 'law' or 'to lay down'. The term Or-lag or Ur-lag means 'Primal Laws' or 'Primal Layers' both of which refer to the same concept - that which is and remains eternally. This is something original and that has been forever, and will be forever. It is a concept outside time and space. The runes existed eternally, it was Woden who recovered their secrets through his self-sacrifice on the Gallows-Tree.


Ar-Kan Rune-Lag -

1. The Aryan Secret Law.

2. The Aryan Secret Way.

3. The Secret Law of the Solar Knowledge.

4. The Secret Law of the Eagle-Serpent.

5. The Mysteries of the Sun-Dragon.


These are some of the ways to look at the meaning of this runic system, and we can relate these to the root-terms of Iggdrasil and Irminsul -

Igg-dra-sil -

Igg = The Terrible One

Dra = Dragon

Sil = The Sun

This refers to the 'Sun-Dragon of Igg' and is thus an alternative to the 'Steed of Igg' which is the literal meaning, we are told. The root sil can also mean 'column' as does sul in the word 'Irminsul'. So here we have the alternative 'Dragon-Column of Igg'. To understand this we may see Iggdrasil - the World Tree - as representing the Milky Way (our own galaxy) which has a spiral form, i.e. it turns and twists (like a Coiled Serpent or Dragon). At the top of the tree is an Eagle and around the base a Serpent - the 'Serpent-Eagle' symbolism. This also represents the White Tree symbolic of the White Race. In this symbolism the Eagle at the top represents the Arya (ruling caste) and the Solar-Hawk the opened Third Eye which sets the Arya apart as an elite over the Race.

The White Coiled Serpent is also the White Dragon which is symbolic of the Milky Way and also of the English Folk. In the Greek tongue the sound 'ng' is spelt 'gg' so we can perhaps see 'Igg' as 'Ing'. This is indeed not so fanciful when we find that certain 'Celtic' legends from around these islands refer to an ancient god with the Root *ing in his name, and he is a one-eyed god. Igg or Ing may well refer to a Primal Archetype of which Woden became through his evolving into the High God.

Ir-min-sul -

Ir - This refers to Ir, Er, Irmin, Ermim, Eremon, Ar-man, Aryaman etc. who is the Divine Ancestor of the Arya.

Min - This is the meaning of Ir-min which is the full name of Ir or Er.

Sul - The root *sul refers to the Sun and also to 'column' so this is the 'Column of Irmin'.

In this case the Irminsul is associated with the Arya and in particular to the Saxon Nation who were obviously Arya and the ruling elite over the English Nation. The Irminsul is made up of three levels which represent the three levels of being - Asgard/Midgard/Hela. At the top is the Eagle (or Swan) and at the base are the three roots of the World Tree. The column thus connects the three levels of being, with the Eagle (or Swan) at the top representing the Aryan Elite of the Race.

We can see the Irminsul in the 'royal roads' of Britain, since these are the Ermine Street (Irmin), Watling Street (Wade) which are the A1 and A5 trunk roads connecting England-Scotland-Wales. These branch off at the area of London into the Ermin-Watling roads, as the Milky Way is the Weh that branches into Wan-Wil. This shape is that of a Y with the base-part Weh and the branches Wan & Wil. When this Y-shape is put under the Ur-Rune (inverted V) this becomes the Ang-Rune which represents the Three Crowns of Anglia. This is symbolic of the Wolsunga Trunk branching into the Wulfinga-Heodeninga tribes, both offshoots of the Wolsunga.

We can see how complex the meaning of this runic system is, and that it contains many levels of meaning. It is also clear that this system is linked to the Island of Albion - the White Island - through the 'Royal Roads' of Albion and through the Seventh Sword (Albion). The symbol of Irmin, as can be seen on German woodcuts of this god, is the White Rose which is linked to the White Rose of Albion. Irmin is the High God of the Saxon Nation and the Arya, and thus the 'White Island' is ruled over by Irmin and is also symbolised by the Irminsul - as the Royal Roads tell us.

The names Ir-Er can also be rendered Ar so the term Ar-Kan can also refer to Ir-Kan and the 'Knowledge of Ir/Er'. Thus we have yet another meaning of the Secret Knowledge of the Law of Ir. The Milky Way was called Iring's Way by the Saxons, and here we have another version of the name Ir, as Ir-ing or the 'Son of Ir'. The root-sequence Ar-Er-Ir-Or-Ur can also be seen as importance, since we find three of these roots (Ar-Er-Ir) in the names Ar-man/Ermin/Irmin. Since the root-words Or-man/Ur-man would mean 'Primal Man' this too connects to the idea of the Divine Ancestor (of the Arya).

The Irminsul is the symbol of the Saxon Nation and since we see it 'imposed' upon the Islands of the Mighty in the shape of the Royal Roads, then the destiny of the Saxon Nation is to regain their sovereignty over the English Nation through the power of the White Dragon and the White Rose of Albion. As I have shown before, not only does the name Albion mean 'White Island' but it can also mean Island of the Elves and who is the Lord of the Elves but Ingwe (Ing)? The root *alb is a different rendering of *aelf (elf) which we can see in the name 'Alboin' which translates into Old English as 'Aelfwine' ('Elf-Friend').

It would seem clear that the name 'East Anglia' can be seen to be just that 'East Anglia' and not 'East Angles', and thus the land of England would have been split into West Anglia and East Anglia - thus 'Anglia' being 'England'. Connect this to what I have said about the Ang-Rune and we can see the symbolism coming into force through the Three Royal Roads of Anglia, symbolised by the Irminsul that connects England-Scotland-Wales. Indeed, the A5 goes from London (England) all the way to Holyhead ('Holy Head') which is in Anglesey - 'Angles Island'. The A1 goes from London (England) and through to Edinburgh ('Edwin's Burgh) named after the English king - Edwin. This area was once known as 'Saxony'.

According to Guido von List the Y-shape is the Ur-glyphic Irminsul which fits perfectly with the Royal Roads of Albion. Strangely enough this Y-shape also occurs on the Holy White Stone of Ing, linking the Gyfu-Rune and the Ing-Rune, and thus being the Gift of Ing. Turned upside down this is an alternative Ken-Rune which makes Fire the 'Gift of ing'. I have just shown how these islands are the Isles of the Elves ('Shining-Ones') and that Ingwe (Ing) is the Lord of the Elves so the 'Gift of Ing' could be the Royal Roads of Albion placed there as the symbolism of the resurrection of the Saxon Nation.

Ingwe is the Divine Ancestor of the English Folk, and that his Holy Stone can be found in the South Saxon Mark (Sussex) has to be significant, especially in view of the fact that the Long Man of Wilmington is in the same county. The figure of the Long Man can represent the Saxon Irminsul (Ear-Rune) as well as the Cweorth-Rune ('Fire-Twirl') and is Waendal - the World-Turner. This is the God of the Sacred Centre, and this figure represents the Sacred Centre of the Woden Folk-Religion here in England.

The secrets of the Ar-Kan Rune-Lag are many and work at many levels of meaning. The work of the Woden Brotherhood and of the Hearth of Heruli has only just started on this new and unique system based upon the 33 Saxon Runes.

Folkish Runes

I am going to use the term Folkish Runes in order to distinguish the Ar-Kan Rune-Lag system from the 'academic' study of runes, which really means that the rune-meanings stay the same eternally simply because new insights are dismissed because they are not 'valid' and 'historical'. Guido von List had a mystical experience whilst blinded through a cataract operation, and thus created the 18-rune Armanen System and the High Armanen Orden which disseminated his teachings. Other rune-magicians and rune-workers also took up this system and developed it with their own ideas - and thus it became a working system for the German Revolution that brought the Triumph of the Will in 1933.

The Armanen System has been taken up by Don Miguel Serrano of Chile who has further developed this system, added more ideas to it, and created a working system designed to achieve the Resurrection of the Arya. It can thus be seen that the runes are not static and do not have set meanings, but evolve themselves through the work of Initiates who gain further insight into the use and meanings of the Ancient Runes. Without these insights the runes would not be effective at all.

We should never dismiss academic study since these people are the experts in their field and have access to the books for research, which we will not always have. But what we need to realise is that academics are only 'experts' with the material that they have, which in the case of the runes is very little. And their work could never go any further unless new material came to hand; it is also true to say that much dogma creeps in when we realise that much of what is done is no less 'speculation' and 'individual interpretation' than that of the more magico-mystical rune-workers who are inspired (by Woden) to gain new insights into the Runic Mysteries.

Those people that criticise the work of the more magico-mystical rune-workers are usually the people who cannot gain insights into the runes, maybe because they were never meant to. Because their work can go no further it seems they do not wish anyone else to achieve what they cannot. It would be far better if such people were to cease their criticism and to work the way they are able to work, and with their academic knowledge were to put forward the facts of what there is, and then others could interpret these and so help the runes to evolve.

If we look at the Anglo-Saxon Rune-Row we can see clearly that every rune-meaning is mundane and linked to the material level - on the surface. If we take these meanings literally these meanings would serve very little purpose at all. But when we consider that ancient teachings were based upon symbolism then we can begin to see the purpose behind each rune-meaning. It is also important to note that the rune-staves have shapes that give us more information about each one. One example is the Rad-Rune which is a zig-zag shape (Blood) running down a Pillar (Upright Stave) and thus is the Rune of Sacrifice. Nowhere is this meaning given in any of the rune-rows, but the symbolism gives us these insights. This rune is also connected to the Dream of the Rood in that the rune-name links to the Rood (Gallows-Tree) and also to the Hanged God on the Bleeding Tree which features in this Old English text. Again, nowhere do we find this in the rune-poem, but the idea is inherent in the rune-stave and others works that give further insight into this meaning.

When I was young I kept experiencing visions of an ancient book that opened and showed me ancient knowledge. This I could not understand at the time, until I grew a little older and started to read and to study in order to gain knowledge. Then the visions stopped. Looking back on this some Higher Power was forcing me into reading and gaining knowledge. But there is much more to this, since it would seem that certain books are meant to be read by certain individuals, as if they were written especially for them to read, and thus interpret. This would seem impossible when we regard time as linear, but when we consider that time is cyclic, then this seems far more feasible, since they were written at one point of a cycle in order to be interpreted at another point - and thus used in the Eternal Struggle that we have undertaken as Einheriar who are resurrected at certain times of the cycle to wage this Eternal Struggle.

After doing a meditation on the Tir-Rune one night before going to sleep (some years ago) I had a strange dream that I was standing on an open field looking up towards a Holy Mountain and a voice was telling me 'the polarity of the Earth is changing - this will herald the arrival of the Superman'. Now, nothing in any of the rune-poems suggest that the Tir-Rune has any meaning like this, but logic tells us that it is a rune of direction since it looks like an arrow (or spear) and an arrow is used to symbolise direction. So this rune actually does refer to polarity (which is direction) and thus the meaning of the dream has some truth in it that cannot be seen using an 'academic' approach to the runes.

We can use the Edel-Rune (Odal Rune/Adal Rune) as another example, since the basic meaning is 'inherited property'. On the surface, at the mundane level of meaning given in the rune-poems, this refers to the property passed on from generation to generation - i.e. the home and the land. However, the other 'inherited property' that we have is our genetic inheritance, passed down from generation to generation. So within the Odal-Rune we have the Folkish concept of Blood and Soil. The Blood (DNA - Genetic Inheritance) and The Soil (Inherited Land of the Folk - the Odal Right). The Odal-Rune is made up of a Germanic Ing-Rune and the Gyfu-Rune as a bind-rune, and thus has the meaning Gift of Ing (I think this was pointed out by Freya Aswynn in Leaves of Yggdrasil). The Ing-Rune in its Saxon version has the shape of the DNA Spiral and is thus associated with the Blood and the Genetic Inheritance which is the Gift of Ing. These two runes are linked in the Blood & Soil concept. This is the mystical link between the Blood of the Folk and the Soil of the Folkland.

In the Anglo-Saxon Rune Poem we find that 'Ing follows his waen eastwards over the waves' which if taken literally would be very much like Jesus Christ walking on water! But if we recognise the symbolism that underlies this statement we can find two simple meanings -

1. Ing (Venus - the Morning Star) follows the Sun-Waen (Sun) eastwards over the waves (day skies), and sets as the Evening Star in the West.

2. Ing (Bootes) follows Woden's Waen (Great Bear) eastwards over the waves (night skies) revolving around the Pole Star.

Now the whole thing makes sense, since we have not taken this as a literal meaning, but as a symbolic meaning. Indeed, the constellation of Bootes can be seen as an alternative Ing-Rune on some occasions. The figure of Ingwe/Ing can thus be seen as important to the most ancient Polar Mythos and also to the later Solar Mythos. But the symbolism of this figure is the same for both eras.

I have shown in my book and also in many of my writings how August 11th 1999 (Solar Eclipse) heralded the conception of the Age of Ing and also the Resurrection of Ingwe as the God of this World Age. I have also shown how the name Ingwe can also be found in certain 'Celtic' texts from these islands, and that the figure referred to is a One-Eyed God, which must link this to Woden in another of his guises - although this is not made obvious in any myth or legend in either English or Norse. Of course, we could consider the title 'Ygg' or 'Igg' as linked to Ing, since in the Greek Language the letters 'gg' are pronounced 'ng'.

On a rather more speculative level NG can be seen as the Broken S-word that has been re-forged, since the letters 'n' and 'g' are today separate letters, whereas originally they were one single sound 'NG'. The symbolism is clear in that this refers to the re-forging of the Broken S-word which itself symbolises the Resurrection of Ing. We have seen how the Odal-Rune is the Gift of Ing and we should note that the Gar-Rune is also the Gift of Ing (Ing-Gyfu bind-rune again) and this is the Spear of Woden. The famous sword Miming is the 'Memory of Ing', and taking all this together the figure known as Ingwe must have had some significance and importance that has been lost with time.

In interpreting the runes in these ways we are not changing the rune-meanings, we are merely giving new interpretations of them, which we could not do were we to consider their meanings in a 'historical' context, or through a literal interpretation of the rune-poems, rather than seeing them as symbols.

Why do we need a new English Runic System?

We may well be asked why we use a specifically English Runic system rather than the Elder Futhark, Younger Futhark, or even the now pretty widespread Armanen System, which can be seen as perhaps the most Folkish System. The answer to this has to be broken up into sections that deal with each system -

The Armanen Futhork - This system has often been criticised for not being a 'historical' one, but myself I see no reason why a system based upon a mystical experience should not be valid. Since this is based upon the six-fold crystal, out of which all of the 18 runes can be taken, this has to be seen as a working system. It was certainly developed for the German Awakening between the two world wars, and even today is used (and spread) into other lands. I consider this to be a valid working magical system that can be used by anyone of Germanic origin, but......Having said that this system lacks the one thing that makes it useable to gain insight into the English Mysteries - the Ing-Rune. It contains no 'Rune of the Son' and thus cannot give us insight into the Mysteries of Ing and the 'Land of the Son'. It is a valid system for spiritual training and the awakening of the Aryan Consciousness, as we see through its use by Miguel Serrano.

The Elder Futhark - This system comes into the Ar-Kan Rune-Lag and does contain the Ing-Rune and thus the 'Mysteries of the Son'. The Tiw's Aettir contains the Ing-Rune and the Mysteries of Ing. But even this Futhark does not go as far as the English Futhork, as we shall see later.

The Younger Futhark - None of the versions of this contain the Ing-Rune either, and thus we are lacking in the Mysteries of Ing, the English Mysteries and the Blood Memory (which is contained in this rune.

The 33 runes of the Ar-Kan Rune-Lag system contain a complete working system for the Woden Initiate in England. This is why we use it to affect an English Awakening. I am now going to outline the reasons why this is the one that we use -

The Tiw's Aettir contains the Mysteries of Ing and the Manu which relate to the English Struggle and to the coming of The Hooded Man -

Tiw - Sky-Father. The Sun of the Solar Eclipse.

Beorc - Birth-Mother. The Moon that eclipses the Sun. Since this is the rune of the Birch-Tree which is the rune of rebirth, resurrection and regeneration this is also equated with the Dawn and thus the Morning Star. This is the woman 'clothed with the Sun and the Moon under her feet' that brings forth the Divine Child. It is thus no coincidence that Venus (Morning Star) was in the same house (House of the White Dragon) as the Sun & Moon in the eclipse of 1999 (see next). Since the birch-tree gives us the 'broom' (its twigs, as well as that of broom are used to make brooms) there may be a link between the nursery rhyme that tells of an old woman that sweeps the sky and the Morning Star.

Eh - The Divine Marriage of the Sky-Father and the Birth-Mother and their union. That this is a valid idea can be proven by the Solar Eclipse of August 11th 1999 which was predicted in Matthew 24 and by Nostradamus. The first prediction actually refers to the Sign of the Son of Man (the Ing-Rune that was created by the planetary positions at this time), the second to the bringing forth of the King of Angol (i.e. Ing - 'King of the English'). This proves beyond doubt that this rune-row is valid for our era and for the English Awakening.

Man - The Manu, offspring of the Divine Marriage of the Sky-Father and Earth-Mother. This rune is made up of two Wyn-Runes and thus has the Formula 88 - the Number of the Manu.
(This only works in the Elder Futhark and English Futhork) because the other systems use the so-called 'Life-Rune' as the Man-Rune.) This is the 'Mighty One' spoken of in the Norse Myths (Short Seeress' Prophecy).

Lagu - The Great Deep, the Wafeln or 'Swan-Ship' that floats on the Waters of Chaos at the end of the Cosmic Cycle, bringing the seeds of resurrection, the rebirth of the Sun, and the Divine Child - the Son of the Widow. This is also the 'flood' spoken of in the Short Seeress' Prophecy. It is the spring/fountain named 'Lac' that is the source of the healing of the Broken Sword (n-g) and its making whole again ('ng' - Ing). There is yet another thing that we should notice here, and that is that the Lagu-Rune makes up half of the Eh-Rune. Since the latter can be seen as symbolic of the Horse Twins - Hengest and Horsa - then this can be seen to represent Hengest, and thus the Sword of Hengest, which is the sword Hunlafing - the 'Hun-bequest' - passed from the 'Hun' (Germany) to Hengest of the Engel-Kin (English). The Wyrd of Germania passes from the Fatherland (Germany) to the Land of the Son (England) - this is the Resurrection of the Pure Fool.

Ing/Ingwe - The 'Son', or 'Hero-God' who is the Son of Man(nus) and thus the Son of the Widow (Parsifal) whose destiny is to bring to an end the Age of Darkness and to create a renewal of Nature and Resurrection of the Arya. (Here again we see how this rune-row alone tells the mysteries of the Son of Man and the Son of the Widow - and thus the Mysteries of The Hooded Man.) This rune is the Rune of Blood Memory and the Old English stave shows it as the DNA spiral. This thus signifies the Awakening of the Blood Memory. This is the 'e'en Greater One spoken of in the Short Seeress' Prophecy - Wid-Ar the Avenger. He Who Returns.

 Daeg - The New Dawn, the dawn of the new Golden Age of the Sun. This rune is also one of revolutionary change since its stave shows the possibility of it's being 'flipped' into its opposite, like an hour-glass or egg-timer. This is also the stave of Eternity and thus of the idea of Immortality.

Edel - This is the rune of the rising of At-al-land (Thule-Hyperborea) which was placed in a different dimension (Inner Earth) as the Memory of the Blood sank. This rune is made up of a Gyfu-Rune and Ing-Rune and thus the 'Gift of Ing'.

We can see from this rune-aettir how important this sequence is, and that it is relevant to the era in which we live today - here in England. It is usual to see the 24-rune Futhark as being the earliest known row, but we find the same runes on one of the Horns of Gallehus together with rune-stances that are found only in the English-Frisian Rune-Row. (This we shall cover in detail in another post.) Since the Horns of Gallehus were found in Denmark there is a likelihood that the English Tribes used these runes, maybe even with the 'later' added runes. We move on.....The last aettir is also one associated with the English Mysteries, and we use the full extra nine runes for this, since the last four runes have no rune-poems but still occur in the manuscripts.

The first two runes - Ac & Aesc - are both associated with the World Tree, and thus with the Irminsul. These two move on to the Yr-Rune which is itself a bind-rune of Ur-Irminsul in the version we use as standard. The Ior-rune is Iormun and also associated with the Irminsul, as are the shapes of the Ear-Rune and Cweorth-Rune. So we have here the first six runes of the last aettir all associated in some way with the Irminsul.

The last four runes are the Gral Runes and thus a Hyperborean Mystery (not a Celtic-Christian one as this developed into - if anything this is a Kristian Mystery rather than a 'Christian Mystery'). In the last rune - Gar - we have the Spear of Woden that finally destroys the power of the Dark Forces, and that is (significantly) the Gift of Ing. This is the Gifu-Rune and Ing-Rune as a bind-rune. The Calc-Rune and Stan-Rune make up the White Stone which points towards the White Stone of Ing that contains the Mysteries of Ing and also fulfils a prophecy concerning the finding of this stone in our own era, and thus heralds the English Awakening. The Gar-Rune is also the Gar-al rune or Rune of the Gral. The Gar-Rune is also made up of four Ang-Runes (Ing-Rune variant) and thus represents the fourfold division of England - with the central point as the Sacred Centre.

Why are the Gral Mysteries so important here, since many English Nationalists dismiss these as some form of 'Celtic' propaganda against the English Folk? They are important simply because the Third Wave (after Sigmund & Siegfried) is the one led by Parsifal (The Pure Fool) who wields the Spear of Woden in the destruction of the Dark Forces, and as the authority to become the new Gral King. The last four runes do not have rune-poems because they could be seen as Transcendent Runes - they are the runes of renewal and resurrection. This is why the 'usual' rune-row ends at Ear - the 'Earth-Grave'. The path to immortality goes beyond the 'earth-grave' and takes the Way of the Gods.

There is also another rune that cannot be found in the Armanen System nor the Younger Futhark - the Peorth-Rune. As I have shown in the Son of the Widow post this one represents the Swan-Ship or Sun-Ship and is thus the Wafeln that (from the Great Deep) is the ship of the Divine Child. An alternative version of the Stan-Rune contains two Peorth-runes facing each other which indicates a link between the Gral Stone (stan) and the Rune of Destiny/Rune of the Swan-Ship. That link, of course, is the son of Parsifal - Lohengrin, whose vessel is the Swan-Ship.

I think this post goes some way to show why WF has started to create its own unique runic system based upon the English-Frisian runes. This has not been done for an ego-boost, nor to try to make ourselves seem to be any better, but simply because this is the only system that  puts together the English Mysteries that have been developed by WF and the Cult of Woden. In one way these mysteries have come from this runic system, yet in another way this runic system has developed from these mysteries - the two cannot be separated. This new system had to be developed simply because its time had come, and it is needed in order to affect an English Awakening. This is part of the Archetypal Aryan Myth but the part that concerns the English Folk and the English Destiny. Since these runes are also centred around the Saxon Irminsul and Irmin (Ar-Man - High God of the Arya) they are also a Saxon Mystery and thus relevant to the Saxon Nation.

The English Runic System

There are a number of runic systems that are in use today, the most used being the 24-rune Common Germanic Futhark and the newer 18-rune Armanen Runes. Within Woden's Folk and the Woden Folk-Religion we use a 33-rune system known as the English Futhork. This is made up of 32 runes broken into Four Aettir with the Gar-Rune as the Spiritual Centre -

 

Feoh                          Haegl                              Tir                            Ac

  Ur                              Nyd                             Beorc                        Aesc

Thorn                            Is                                 Eh                             Yr

  Os                              Ger                               Man                          Ior

 Rad                             Eoh                               Lagu                         Ear

 Ken                           Peorth                            Ing                        Cweorth

Gyfu                            Eolhs                            Daeg                         Calc

Wyn                            Sigel                              Edel                         Stan

 

Gar

 

 

 

It should be noted that the first three aettir (24 Runes) have the same order as the Common Germanic Futhark although the names are slightly different. This makes it quite easy to adapt from the CGF to the English Futhork. Some of the last nine runes are bind-runes whilst others describe trees (oak and ash) that are found in Germania and not in some more northerly areas of Europe. There is also the importance of the last four runes which do not have rune-poems in the English Rune-Poem. The names of at least the last three have meanings linked to the Graal Mythos - the original Hyperborean Mythos and not the later 'Celto-Christian Grail' built around a Christian 'King Arthur'.

 

 

These 33 runes and the order that they are shown here are the official runes of the Ar-Kan Rune-Lag system devised by the Hearth of Heruli within Woden's Folk. Individuals may use these runes differently and even in a different order but for group use within WF this is the order that we use - though the names may be altered for convenience.

 

 

THE MASTER RUNE

 

This figure is the Nine Glory Twigs mentioned in the Nine Herbs Charm from which all of the 33-runes can be taken. This is the Rune-Mother which gives 'birth' to all of the rune-shapes. This is not the only Master Rune that we use for this system because there is also our own version which will can be seen below -

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is a more complicated mandala based upon the octagon, at the centre of which is the Swastika of the Return from which unfold all of the runes, in fact this figure covers all of the rune-rows. This is also based upon the Eightfold Wheel and the Ing-Rune/Gar-Rune as the Central Axis.

 

 

 

 



 

 

 

 

 

 

 



 

 



 

 



 

 



Son of the Widow

The title Son of the Widow occurs as one for 'Jesus Christ' (Mani called him thus) and also crops up in Freemasonry where Hiram Abis is the Son of the Widow. The origins of this title seem to be with the figure of the Egyptian Horus who is the son of Isis whose husband - Osiris - is slain by Set, which makes her the 'widow'. In the Myth of Horus we find that Osiris is slain by his brother, Set, but Isis brings forth a son, Horus, who is born to avenge his father.

Within Woden's Folk we have followed this line unconsciously, since the figure of The Hooded Man - as the Divine Fool - has exactly the same myth. Rather than the Egyptian Myth we have used the Norse version where Hamlet's father is slain by his own brother and Hamlet plays the Pure Fool so as to disguise his intention of avenging his father by slaying his murderer - the uncle. In this Hamlet is the Son of the Widow.

Another famous legendary figure whose myth is the same as this is that of Parsifal, whose name (in this version of Wagner's) means Pure Fool. What we need to realise when dealing with this myth is that in the Wolfram von Eschenbach version the ideas are based around alchemy which was the spiritual medium of the era.

Parsifal's father - Gahmuret - marries a black-skinned Moor named Belecane, Queen of Zazamanc, but he abandons her. Here we see the 'black' or nigredo stage. He then remarries to a figure called Herzeloyde of the House of Anjou, and then leaves her to fight in battle - the 'white' or albedo stage. He dies in battle, making Herzeloyde a widow, and their son, Parsifal, the Son of the Widow. Parsifal slays a Red Knight, takes his armour and weapons and becomes the Red Knight - this being the 'red' or rubedo stage. Here we see the colours of Eternal Germania - Black-White-Red.

Parsifal is 'brought up like a pure madman' and is 'pure like a madman'. The alchemical transformation as seen in the work of Wolfram von Eschenbach is not the work of a physical lineage but that of a spiritual lineage. Parsifal is a Warrior-Hero and the myth is based around the Warrior Ethos whence he needs no 'God' but is guided by his Walkyrie.

The wife of Parsifal is Condwiranurs whose skin is as white as snow and her lips as red as blood - red and white. When he witnesses the slaying of a goose killed by one of King Arthur's falcons he goes into a deep trance and slays two knights with the Lance of Troy which he found in the cave of a hermit. Here we have the colours red and white which are once again symbolic - 'blood on the snow'.

There are three swords used by Parsifal in his wanderings and quests -

The first he discards after finding the Sword of the Red Knight, which becomes his second sword. The third sword is the Memory of the Blood which on its second blow breaks and is repaired in the water of the fountain called Lac flowing from beneath a grey rock. Here we see the idea of the sword that is symbolic of the Blood Memory and this sword is the Broken Sword - Sword of the Wolsungas. There is a runic sequence here too - Lac (Lagu) which is the lake or fountain, and Blood Memory (Ing) which follows the Lagu-Rune. Indeed there is a connection between a Broken Sword and Ing because the original sound ng was once whole, but the two letters 'n' & 'g' are today broken, thus symbolic of the breaking of the Blood Memory of the Folk. It is thus the power of the Lagu Rune that makes n-g whole again - Ing. The Lagu-Rune could actually be seen as symbolising a fountain through the rune-shape.


I have equated the Lagu Rune with the Left-Hand Path which is the Warrior Path and the only valid path for us in the Dark Age or Warg Age. Ing is the rune associated with the Sacred Blood and with the DNA Code - the English version shows a double-helix. England - the 'Land of Ing' is the Land of the Blood which seems obvious from the title alone. This is the Land of the Son (of the Widow), whose colours are Red & White as seen on the English Cross Flag and the White Dragon Banner.

There are also hidden connections with the Last Avatar here since the title Widow is linked to Wid-Ar who is the Avenging God and another aspect of The Hooded Man. There is yet another important thing we need to consider here, and we need to get back to the Legend of Parsifal for that.

Parsifal is the Pure Fool who eventually finds the Gral and thus heals the wounded king and the land is renewed, but there is another important figure in this myth - Gawain. Through the tests that are undertaken by Gawain the power of the black magician - Klingsor - is broken, thus paving the way for the renewal of Nature by Parsifal. It is these tests, and the love of Gawain for the Proud Duchess, that destroys the enchantments of 'hypnosis at a distance' that has taken prisoner the Knights, not allowing them to return to the Ancestral Home. This is a most important point, for this 'hypnosis' at a distance is exactly how the English Folk have been enslaved - through the power of black magic, of pyscho-warfare, and by the mass-media and the press who act out this drama as the Black Magicians with their Magic Box (TV and the World Wide Web) - which create an illusionary world.

It is Gawain that destroys the power of Klingsor - the Black Magician - and to do so he undergoes a series of tests, whilst at the same time he is guided by his love for the Proud Duchess (his Walkyrie). We could even see the name Gawain as being made of the two runes Ga (gift) and Wyn and since his shield has a five-pointed star symbol there could be a link to Venus - the Morning Star. This is because the planet Venus is linked to the Wyn-Rune and the Wanir-Gods and thus to Ingwe-Frey and the Elven Race - the Shining Ones. The planet Venus was also glyphed by a symbol that is the same shape as the Wyn-Rune, which underlines this link. It is quite possible that the Morning Star is also associated with the Apple since when this is cut in half it makes a five-pointed star; we should note that the Wolsunga Line was renewed by the intervention of the goddess Frigga who sent her handmaid to Rerir's wife bearing an apple, who then gave birth to Wolsung.

To break the power of Klingsor it is necessary to expose the lies and deceit of the mass-media and the gutter-press, but it is also necessary to awaken the power of the Blood Memory in our Folk and to affect a return to the Ancestral Home - Thule-Hyperborea. What we need to understand is that the legend of the sinking of an ancient homeland may not have been a physical event in the first instance, for there is good reason to think that this 'sinking' was more of a removal of the Ancestral Homeland into another dimension - possibly into the Inner Earth. This was not just a flood that sank the ancient land, but more of a removal of the original lands from this dimension, which means that it is still there for those who are meant to find it.

This is more in line with the legends of Shambhalla and Agarthi (Asgard?) which are supposed to be within the Earth. It also explains why some people have experienced the Fata Morgana at the North Pole which is an 'illusion' of seeing another strange and magnificent world - which is there but in another dimension of being. There are so many legends about individuals going into the Earth and then coming out again at some future time, and we also have the figures like Barbarossa and King Arthur who 'sleep' in a cave (underground) awaiting their time of return.

Going back to the five-pointed star which centres around the figure of Gawain and also the Wolsunga Lineage, this is the same type of symbol as the White Rose which has five petals and is the White Rose of Albion. The White Rose can also be found on symbols of the Saxon god Irmin, and also on the medieval Tarot card named The Fool. The White Rose of Albion refers to a very ancient time when these islands were populated by the Arya or Hyperboreans, whose descendants were the later Saxon English.

One last point here concerns the son of Parsifal - Lohengrin - whose symbol is the Swan-Ship (Peorth-Rune) and whose legend most likely gave birth to the legend of the Swan-Knight, and these originated with the English Divine Ancestor - Sheaf. The Swan-Ship of Thule-Hyperborea sails upon the Waters of Chaos at the end of a world-age or cycle of ages - within the ship is the sunwheel (reborn sun) or the Seeds of Rebirth (like the 'ark'). In one version (Mayan) we find a White God with a Red Beard whose boat is the Serpent-Ship (Wafeln) which floats upon the Waters of Chaos, within the boat being the White Stone of Ing (Gral-Stone) on which are the runes Gift of Ing as seen on the side of the boat XX-X. The two figures at the side of the boat are the Guardians of the Gateway (Gateway to the Gods through which the Divine Hero travels).

This is the Swan-Ship of At-al-land which is the Racial Homeland which was removed from this world when the axis of the earth tilted and the Golden Age ended. This was the time when the gods sent Scef (Sheaf) to earth as the Culture-Bearer to aid the Germanic Folk as the climate changed drastically, and the gods withdrew into the Inner Earth. At this time the Sky-God (Tiw) lost his right-hand and became the God of the Underworld (Woden) symbolised by the Lagu-Rune of the Left-Hand Path.

The role of Woden's Folk is to prepare the way for the coming of the Last Avatar, and in doing so to fulfil the role of Gawain in breaking the hypnotic hold that Klingsor has over the Warrior-Heroes - thus awakening the Blood-Memory and the Memory of the Ancestral Homeland. Gawain had to go through a series of trials and tests, in one version being tested against the Green Knight, and overseeing the tests is Wyrd - the Goddess of Fate.

The role of the Einheriar is crucial to an understanding of what we are saying here, for the Einheriar are the Warrior-Heroes (Weras) who are resurrected at the time of Ragnarok to fight the Last Battle against the Dark Lord and the Dark Forces of Chaos and Destruction. The legends of the Everlasting Battle and figures such as Hedhin in Norse Mythology are connected to the idea of a never-ending Cosmic War between the Forces of Light (Gods and Heroes) against the Servants of Darkness (Jotun - Forces of Darkness & Matter), in which the Warrior-Heroes are slain and resurrected endlessly in this struggle of the ages.

We await the next coming of the Son of the Widow.......................................