RUNE HISTORY:
Several ancient western alphabets have magical content. These include Hebrew, Greek, Oghamm, Gaelic and Runic and the lesser known Glagothic, Westphalion and Coelbren. In each of these alphabets every character has a name which refflects its sound and has a series of related meanings....Through these meanings we can gain a greater understanding of the world. The word "rune" denotes its secret magical uses. The old languages of northern Europe preserve this meaning in many ways. One of the basic meanings of rune is "to whisper". The Old English verb "to rown" and the modern German raunen have a similar meaning. In AngloSsaxon times leagal aned political discussions were called runes. At such meetings, actual runes were used for guidence. The confidentiality and secrecy of the ancient runes still persists in modern Irish. Her, r.n mn means "secret intention" of "resolution". Scots Gaelic, too has the word rune which means secret, mystery, intention, purpose, wish, accord and "love". The word rune can also mean a lost used in divination. The Scots word run-rig discribes the old method of allocating rigs of allotments of land using runes ina lottery. |