All Llewellyn items are Brand NEW! $5.39 But It Now is 10% below the publisher's listed cover price! Publisher's listed cover price $5.99 Over 150,000 sold Lisa Peschel: A Practical Guide to The Runes Their Uses in Divination and Magick ~ A Powerful Force for Guidance, Protection, and Luck~ EIHWAZ the yew, URUZ the wild ox, KENAZ the hearth fire. Created by the Nordic and Germanic tribes of northern Europe, the runes began as a magickal system of pictographs representing the forces and objects in nature. This guidebook will help you discover the oracular nature of the runes and how to use them as a magickal tool for insight, protection, and luck. Practical and concise, this book includes: Complete descriptions of the twenty-four runes of the Elder Futhark, plus WYRD, the blank rune The differences between bindrunes and rune scripts Four rune layouts and detailed rune interpretations, including reversed position meanings How to carve runes and create talismans Meanings and uses of the runes in magick* ~From the Introduction~ The runic system was in use by the Nordic and Germanic tribes of Northern Europe for both secular and religious purposes. There is some debate among scholars, but the first examples of the runes to phonetically represent language appear to date from around the second century B.C.E. The development of the rune alphabet was a fairly recent occurrence, brought about by the increased trading activity with Mediterranean neighbors who already possessed a fully developed alphabet. Before this time, the runes were primarily a magickal system of pictography representing the forces and objects in Nature. It was believed that by calling upon the appropriate rune one could thereby make contact with the force in Nature the symbol represented. There were several different runic alphabets in use throughout Northern Europe over the centuries, but the most common is the Germanic or Elder FUTHARK. This alphabet received its name from its first six letters - F, U, TH, A, R and K. It was the system most widely in use between 200 B.C.E. and the late eighth century and the one we shall be concerned with in this book. This alphabet contains 24 letters and is divided up into three groups of eight called Freya's Eight, Hagall's Eight, and Tir's Eight. What you have here is a book about runic divination and magick. You will find little information on the actual history, customs, or mythology of the Norse and Anglo-Saxon peoples who used these runes contained herein. There have been many excellent books on these subjects written by scholars from all over the world, and in this work I have chosen to focus on the practical aspect of the runes rather than the historical. This is not to slight the importance of a basic knowledge of these subjects. It is as important to understand the physical and mental realities of those who created the runes as it is to understand the meanings of the individual runes themselves. For what are the runes if not a magickal extension of the experiences and realities of the Northern European? You will find in the suggested reading list at the back of this book several fine works covering these areas, and I urge you to check them out. The aim of this book is to get as much useful runic information in one place as possible. This is primarily for the benefit of the novice. Until I began compiling the notes that were to become this book, I would use up to five different sources in my quest to discover the most accurate interpretation of the runecast....* Lisa Peschel (North Carolina) is an artist, writer, and a Pagan of the Wiccan Tradition. She actively serves to educate the general public about this natural way of life in addition to divinatory practice and herbalism. She lives in North Carolina with her son Dylan MacLir.*

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