Runes -150AD - 700AD approx. Germanic alphabets.
This is totally lifted from excellent site : http://runesecrets.com/rune-meanings/ansuz
Where you can find out more about Runes if it grabs you.
One Rune in particular resonates with Yellowhammer.
“Find your ears before you search for words.”
Ansuz - “Anne – suhz” – Literally: “Woden” – Esoteric: “Breath” or “Ancestral Sovereign God”
Odin’s gifts to the first humans is said to be the breath of life and
inspired mental activity, along with form, speech and the cognitive
senses. The root energy of this rune triggers inspiration and ecstatic
mental states. The ability of our minds to work with patterns is inherent in the energies
of Ansuz.
Thorsson aptly states that Ansuz is the “rune of ancestral
sovereign power of the mind consciousness, inspiration, enthusiasm and
the power of the use of symbols for transformation of consciousness.”
The spirit takes up its residence in the human body when the babe
breathes its first breath. It leaves the body with the last breath.
Breath is the actual point of osmosis between the physical world of the
human being, and the transpersonal energy that animates the universe.
Emphasis on the breath is seen in meditation practices in all
traditions. Inspiration means to breathe in the exalting or quickening
influence of cosmic awareness. The breath is also connected to ancestry,
as even the word spirit comes from the same root as breath. Our
ancestral lines are unbroken with those of the gods still to this day,
in blood and in breath.
Ansuz is a rune of ordering. Naming a thing
properly can give power over that thing, and in ancient traditions,
naming has often been used to dispel mischievous spirits, bind demons or
break psychological fetters. The relationship also is indicative
chaotic events can be used to shape ordered circumstances and one’s own
thoughts, or the thoughts of others.
Ansuz is suggestive of the
relentless patterns that modern chaos theory declares are universal in
every system. The newest theories of language are also found in the
mysterious order and ‘strange attractors’ of chaos linguistics.
It is here that all speech can be deciphered and understood as well,
so Ansuz is a rune connected with listening and speech: communication
and meaning in general. Use such skills wisely for manipulation can,
through temptation, become an end in and of itself, and corrupt the
power of the rune. The problems with propaganda and misdirection are
that the mind will follow its own words into confusion and create
hypocrisy, which will damage the hamingja. Thought and action are most
powerful when aligned and honesty is the best policy.
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