Misc Rune ListN.B. This is a collection of ideas for runes, and is not meant to be authoritative teaching.WIGHTS The word ‘wight’ just means a ‘being’. The concept of a wight is based on the perception that there are movements in the world which conform to a regular or meaningful pattern. A wight is a mental construct for whatever is the cause of that pattern. Some Examples of Types of Wights: soulwight – a living creature manwight – a person (from Old English Man – a person) placewight – keeps a particular place being the kind of place it is bandwight – causes people to associate with each other makerwight - causes things to be produced from raw materials breakerwight – cause things to break up – undermines their internal dynamic steererwight – what influences or governs multiple beings so that their different activities fit together to achieve some purpose tellerwight – what causes understandings of the world to travel from person to person goldwight – orders people’s perceptions of how much gold or money they have and other people have and how money is created and destroyed and transferred from one to another (or moneywight) garthwight – controls the building, placement and destruction of walls which are barriers of communication and influence between people. Garthwights build garths or enclosures within which holistic (i.e. self-contained and complete) activity can happen. Giants are wights which are large in size compared to us. These include the giant processes or activities of the natural world which continue regardless of their effect on humans. Similarly the movements of the human world which happen on such a large scale that they are not responsive to individual needs are also giants. The Demiurge is a kind of giant that is responsible for shaping the nature of people (and by extension other creatures also). A Natural Demiurge refers to anything that shapes the world, while otherwise a Manic Demiurge (manic=with a mind) is a conscious seat of activity which shapes the growth and nature of people. A Demiurge can be more or less good or bad. SPEELING is an activity that someone can do to influence the Noia of another person. The word is related to German Spiel (Play/Act) and English Spell (as in 'cast a spell'). Speeling relies on the fact that it is human nature to be influenced by the behaviour of other people. If others tell us a story about something then we are naturally inclined to take in what they have said and make it part of our own thinking. Generally we use the word speeling to mean conscious acts of communication where we are trying to shape the thoughts of others. This might be for good purposes as a parent or teacher or just to get them to do what we want them to. For speeling to work it requires that people are open to it, that they listen in a naive way innocent of potential trickery so that they take the speeling at face value. Speeling can be used to 'cast a spell' over a person so as to lock-in some particular way of thinking , which prevents them from thinking and seeing in a free way. Soulcraft is a conscious practice to shape the situations we face and so the experiences we take from them in order to develop the character of our soul. Most obviously this could be to set up situations where we are challenged to action so that we stretch ourselves and perhaps become more capable in some way, or we get to face our fears and become more courageous. Mindcraft is the conscious development of the mind. The mind will develop naturally from the situations it encounters in normal life, but a more conscious programme or efforts of some kind can help the process along. Usually this will require that those who are more developed help those who have travelled less far. From October 2009: 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 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. EntsThe word Ent just means 'a being'. Mazdaic Mithraism recognises different kinds of ents. They can perhaps be classified as being:
A Giant is a being usually much larger than a human which tends to act without concern for individual human welfare. A Devil is a being that undermines, weakens or injures another being. Soulcraft is a conscious practice to shape the situations we face and so the experiences we take from them in order to develop the character of our soul. Most obviously this could be to set up situations where we are challenged to action so that we stretch ourselves and perhaps become more capable in some way, or we get to face our fears and become more courageous. Mindcraft is the conscious development of the mind. The mind will develop naturally from the situations it encounters in normal life, but a more conscious programme or efforts of some kind can help the process along. Usually this will require that those who are more developed help those who have travelled less far. |