Runes
Runes are concepts that we pay special attention to. There are lots of possible runes. Here are some examples:
Realgood - what is of intrinsic value, what brings happiness.
Blooming - Flourishing. A situation where people have good lives, are able to express their nature, to grow and develop, to create, to be a positive influence on the lives of others,to have challenges that stretch them but which they can ultimately meet, are not overburdened with pain and suffering but can experience joy, pleasure and contentment.
Bloomlaw - the Law or Rules of Flourishing. Also called the Bloomway , the Bloomlaw is the 'law of blooming' or 'the way of blooming' - i.e. what you need to do to bring about Blooming.
Rightness - is 'Order', 'Truth' or 'Righteousness'. Rightness is the quality of a happening where the deeds of each are right-fitting to the needs of others and support the good progress of the whole activity. (NB Normally Rightness is considered both the necessary and sufficient cause of Blooming)
Athelhood is 'nobility' - not an inherited social status but a particular form of character. A noble person is strong and capable, of stable and healthy emotional character, clear thinking and minded to do what is right in any situation.
Deepholm - The substrate of existence - the ocean of time and space within which everything is born and lives and dies.
Hap - Happening
Wod - Movement, Momentum, Waves, Weight
Doing - the phenomenon where a living being can have an influence on the world around them.
Choosing is conscious choice. It is the exercise of the will to choose between alternatives that are visible to a person.
Deedrun - the way a person's actions have an impact on future happenings, perhaps with unexpected 'knock-on' effects persisting through time
Bonding is the way a person is connected to something or somebody else so that they are affected by that other thing. Thus there is a strong association between Bonding and Deedrun.
Deedway is a way of doing things. This might be our personal habits or wider ways of behaving that we call the culture of a community.
Goaldream - is an ideal we are seeking to attain. Creative activity typically depends on the formulation of a Goaldream . If we don't have an image in our minds of what we are seeking to achieve then our doings will be aimless and we will not get anywhere.
Wodding - the act of creating Wod (i.e. movement or change) . Perhaps identical to Doing.
Backwod - Wod that is produced by something as an automatic consequence of what you do to it, a reflex.
Lay - The character of something at a particular moment in time. This can be described in terms of the Backwod produced in response to any particular stimulus.
Deed - Actions. Deed is Wodding that occurs between one being and another (or between the being and its environment). Deed comes out of the interaction of Lay and Choosing.
Weird - What happens or has happened. This is a consequence of all the world's previous Lay and Choosing.
Churning - The impact on a person who is bonded to others and thus is influenced by their deeds. Somebody who is 'in the thick of things' is subject to much churning whereas somebody who is detached from the world is subject to little. Churning can be both good and bad. Good churning creates vitality and enables a person to develop. Bad churning is unpleasant without any benefit.
Deedgarth - An enclosure such that everything that happens within the enclosure is a consequence of the actions taken by those inside it.
World - A whole, a self-sufficient area of Hap and Wod, that which is enclosed by a deedgarth.
Worldlord - The governing or regulating aspect of a World.
A band is an association of people.
A sibband is an especially strong band whose members (siblings) have loyalties to each
other sufficient to enable them to live together.
A Sib-Band is a Sibling-Association - a group of people who have made a covenant of
peace with each other and have agreed to treat each other like brothers and sisters.
A Bandwight is the imagined being which brings individual people together into
association with each other and shapes the nature of their interaction.
Frith is the peace or harmony of the band. A frithweaver works to keep the good frith.
A Meet is a meeting . This is where people come into each others awareness – so that
they are open to receiving mental influence from each other.
A Beatmeet is a meeting that happens on a regular basis so that it forms part of the
ongoing expectation of its participants.
A Moot (or perhaps Mootmeet) is a meeting for discussion
An Openmoot is a meeting for discussion without a pre-arranged agenda so that
participants are able to bring issues of concern to them to the attention of the rest.
Speeling or Spelling is the process of consciously directing one's communicating behaviour in the presence of others in order to have an impact on their thinking.
April 2025
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