Thanks for posting this!
I'm quite fascinated by the metaphysics of Odin &
his two companions -- sometimes Loki & Thor,
sometimes Loki & Honir (the speechless one, the
compromiser).
--- Mandrake of Oxford <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> From Jan Fries/'Helrunar: Manual of Rune
> Magick' 3rd edition
>
> 'The Norns and other Germanic trinities.
> Nyrnir means ‘weavers’, the word refers to the
> spiders who build their
> realities by weaving, creating and devouring
> long strands of protein,
> creating a universe consisting of structure,
> connection and the spaces
> between them. The Norns weave fate, they cast
> lots which bind destiny and
> prophecy a future that creates itself through
> being divined. The Edda
> mentions three Norns by name:
>
> Urda, who refers to the past, has the syllable
> ‘ur’ in her name, which
> denotes great age, originality, and the
> primeval (especially in German).
> (see Uruz rune).
>
> Werdandi is the same word root in another time.
> ‘Werden’ in German means ‘to
> become’, and refers to the present time.
>
> Skulda can be found in the English ‘shall’ and
> ‘should’, and refers to the
> future. The modern German Schuld contains her
> name, it means ‘a debt’ or, in
> a negative complex, ‘guilt’. The original word
> had no negative implications.
> It simply pointed out that the bill is not paid
> yet, for good or evil.
> The three together are ‘wyrda’, or the ‘weird
> sisters’. Modern writers
> frequently pretend that these three Norns are
> the only ones, a centralized
> fate-producing unit for all worlds. Such
> centralized notions (‘they bind the
> fate of all’) are typical for our modern
> outlook. In the Edda we are told
> that there are many more Norns, some of them
> Aesir, some elves and some
> dwarves. Perhaps we should conceive destiny as
> a complex weaving that is
> done by many Norns in many places, each of whom
> processes space and time in
> her or his own way. Ultimately, this leads to a
> model in which every mage
> functions like a spider, building a mandala of
> realities and projecting it
> on the substance of the world. Indeed we are
> the Norns of our own lifetimes.
> Another trinity evolved around Odin/Wotan. In
> the prose Edda we meet him,
> for example, as Har (the High), Iafnhar
> (equally high) and Thridi (the
> third). These three hold a riddle game with
> king Gylfi, in which each aspect
> supplies a different point of view.
> Then there is the trinity of the brothers
> (aspects).
>
> 1. Wotan.
> 2. Willi. 3. Weh.1
>
> 1. Wotan is unity. This refers to pure self,
> pure awareness and energy.
> Wotan, as you read in the history chapter, was
> originally a god of rage, of
> shamanism, of wild trances, song and ecstasy.
>
> 2. Willi connects with our word ‘will’, and the
> ‘true will’ being the
> individual expression of the universal and
> evolutionary will. This will
> includes change, evolution, transformation.
>
> 3. Weh or Ve. ‘Sanctuary’ or ‘holy grove’, i.e.
> the natural temple. Modern
> German Weh is something painful, like the
> English ‘woe!’ German Wehen are
> the pains of childbirth, while a Weihe is
> consecration and initiation.
> Sometimes the Edda gives us ‘Honir’ for Willi,
> Honir is a silent watcher
> figure, and ‘Lodur’ for Weh, who is ‘flaming’,
> an aspect of Loki. These
> three created human beings out of the ‘ask’
> (ash tree) and the ‘embla’
> (alder or elm). In the Voluspa we are told that
> Odin gave soul, Honir gave
> sense and Lodur supplied blood and rich colour.
> It is no surprise that the
> triskell, (the triple spiral), can be seen as a
> symbol for the Norns and
> Wodan alike.
>
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