![]() ![]() Our vintage can almost remember an older time when people derived political meaning from certain runes and also got it all wrong. We knew that dice-throwing descended from casting runes that were carved onto the vertebrae of our enemies or something like that. We dug when Geddy Lee sang to us about rolling the bones. Some of us of a certain vintage can remember the Led Zeppelin ‘runes’, those record-jacket symbols sort of trademarked by the band guys.‘Rune’ in occult bombast has a secondary meaning of any symbol that’s secret, magical, and vaguely sinister. Your author’s favorite among them is one that shows how to use ‘Viking runes’ like a fortune-telling oracle, unaware that the runes in all the illustrations actually went out of use before the Viking age began. The books proliferate faster all the time. They can be used in astral projection, in having better sex, in being ‘powerful’,Īnd in being a feminist. In fact, the medievals would be astonished to hear how we talked about their letters and rune magic, almost entirely, is a 20th-century invention.īut what an invention! You’ll be glad to know that runes are useful aids these days. We like to think that to the medievals, these characters were magic. ![]() Runes are phonetic characters in a family of writing systems from early northwest Europe and it’s a feature of our gothic fascination with our past. Type ‘runes’ into Google and see how superstitious we’ve become – either that or how fanciful about the middle ages we’ve become. ![]()
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