The Owl House runes, partially decoded!
This may have been discovered elsewhere on the Internet, but I haven’t seen any mentions of it on Tumblr, so here’s my theory on the translation of the runes we’ve seen so far:
First of all, I’m assuming that all vowels are written at the top of the blackboard from Episode 3, while the remaining consonants (and their variations) are written in the straight line below it, in roughly the alphabetical order of English.
There are a few different details that make me feel pretty confident in this assumption. First of all, we have confirmation of the runes for S and SH, which occur fairly close to the end of the alphabet, and are followed by two runes resembling the Greek lowercase tau, which is pronounced as a hard T. T comes after S in the English alphabet, and TH is the single most common 2-letter combination in English, so the “accented” tau is probably TH.
At the end of the alphabet we have runes very closely resembling the Cyrillic ю (”yu”) and З (”ze”), presumably Y and Z. This only leaves 2 runes between T/TH and Y to represent the consonants V, W, and X — but since these runes are phonetic rather than a 1 to 1 substitution cipher, X could potentially be represented by KS or similar in the rune language. The exact representation of X isn’t super important, because it doesn’t come up in any of the runes so far.
There’s one more very important thing we can infer from the order of the consonants, though. Preceding S in the English alphabet is R, and preceding S in the runic alphabet is this partially cut-off symbol:
But we also get a better look in it in the codes for both Episodes 3 and 4:
And speaking of these two codes, it looks like we now have enough information to get to the real fun part of this whole mystery: actually translating some of the secret messages!
(Spoiler alert: we get a result that’s almost as cryptic as the runes themselves.)
turnnoffyourmind
blakekathryn
germansingergirl
areudirty
