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[thepaganlinguist]

Why there was never a rune called “Kenaz”

The Elder Futhark runes are the alphabetic script first developed to write the late Proto-Germanic language in the early centuries AD. We do

Something controversial for my first post

[frenchcurious]

Maison de la famille Rinkevičiai, 1935. Kaunas, Lituanie. Architecte A. Gordevičius. (Crédit photo www mywonderlust pl). - source Sally Jo.

[bewitchinglybold]

Kauna-Eihwaz-Berkana

[ruttotohtori]

Joskus teininä tuli katottua televisiosta sellane kauhuelokuva ku Kauna. Sen elokuvan pahiksen pelottavuus hieman kärsi siitä, että se piti sellasta samanlaista narisevaa ääntä, mitä mä tykkäsin tehä lapsena...

[ducklikethedaffy2]

Kauna is my mandatory edgy rogue character, and I absolutely love her. She's an assassin who wants to follow the story of her life and become a worthy warrior for Valhalla.

But~ she might have a tendency to steer away from her warrior path and get drunk in a tavern every once in a while.

[hildshall]

Rune a Day Project - Day 14 - November 14, 2021 - Kenaz

Day 14 of my rune a day project. Today I drew Kenaz, meaning "torch" or "beacon" according to the Anglo-Saxon rune poem, but "ulcer" or "boil" in the old Norwegian rune poem. As "torch", it represents inspiration, creativity, fire, warms, disclosure, passion, enlightenment, knowledge (esp. ancestral revelation), discovery, artistry and craftsmanship, technical aspects of magic, vitality, quest for truth.

Another rune that makes big changes from runeset to runeset. It can look like these, too: ᚳ ᚴ

There's some debate over the meaning of this rune. Most esoteric guides say it means "torch", and has the representations I listed above. However, the meaning "ulcer" and "boil" have to be considered as well.

This got me to thinking about the names/meanings of runes, and what, if any, effect modern definitions of names and meanings will have over time. It's like the words we have in Modern English that used to mean something very different; look at the source and history of the words "cheat", "cute", "flirt", "artificial", "weird" (of course, we pagan/heathen types that one we know well) and "meat".

By the way, I've been learning Norwegian as a side project this year, and the word for all solid food is "mat", which is what the word "meat" (or "mete") used to mean in English!

I'm also a big fan of the podcast "The History of English", by Kevin Stroud (https://historyofenglishpodcast.com/). It's a fantastic introduction to the topic for us regular people, and I've been listening to it for years.

Perhaps, just as languages have changed over time - and our alphabets have changed over time - so could the runes change, based on we moderns *assigning* them meaning. Just because our ancestors assigned this or that meaning, it doesn't mean we can't reinterpret them for modern times and modern revived pagan faiths (which are themselves, by necessity, chock full of reinterpretations, borrowings from various sources, and a health dose of modern UPG).

I'm no scholar, I'm definitely not an authority on anything, but it seems reasonable to me.

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HRGH I’m super lazy to finish anything lately but here’s a small portrait (that I may or may not finish) of my new eso orc lass Kauna! She’s very small and very angry and ran away to Cyrodiil to see the world and fight (not because she is that keen on Daggerfall Covenant, she just has a lot of unresolved aggressions) (but she’s working on it and does some woodworking and blacksmithing to calm down)