Hello, I am in the process of making my first set of runes. I am ready to stain them. They are made of walnut. I understand that the traditional way of...
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Rig Svenson
rig_svenson
Feb 16, 2004 5:54 pm
Heilsa Terresem, There are many ways to cut yourself. I personally use a very sharp small scram knife and nick...note I said nick the side of my thumb just...
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Earthwizard, aka., Cr...
myrkryder
Feb 16, 2004 6:24 pm
Not sure about anyone else, but Sunny's ideas seem exemplary on this: http://www.sunnyway.com/runes/runeset.html 3. Your own blood: if you're a woman in...
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Rig Svenson
rig_svenson
Feb 16, 2004 7:24 pm
Hiya, Seriously disagree with Sunnyway:- Anti clotting agents etc.....? Not traditional? Also rune tablets not the way runes were and is a variant of rune...
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Robin Poe
eonechuir
Feb 16, 2004 7:45 pm
Have to agree about menstrual blood. It is "dead blood." My method is to use a medical lancet. They are available in pharmacies under diabetic supplies. They...
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Earthwizard, aka., Cr...
myrkryder
Feb 16, 2004 8:08 pm
In the spirit of the ancients who did not mind a good debate. I do not mean anything personal in what I say below, so hopefully you will not take it...
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Mark Schoenberg
wridirman
Feb 16, 2004 8:25 pm
To support Craig's view. The ancient Hebrew tradition of keeping a strictly Kosher home was brought about by sound health practices. Today, the requirements...
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Rig Svenson
rig_svenson
Feb 16, 2004 8:33 pm
Hi Mark, Change with the times and distort the runes into just about anything? I don't think so. I -Ching Runes, Tarot runes, Reiki Runes? Rig Mark Schoenberg...
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Earthwizard, aka., Cr...
myrkryder
Feb 16, 2004 8:40 pm
Ah... instead of a prime debate about Tradition and Individual stance we get sarcasm... so the traditionalist is not up for friendly debate. Sad.... I was...
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Rig Svenson
rig_svenson
Feb 16, 2004 8:47 pm
Hiya Earthwizzard, I base my findings on 25 years of research into scant lore and oral trads who would talk to me. Rune phonetics is not an assumption...it is...
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Robin Poe
eonechuir
Feb 16, 2004 8:57 pm
Ok, this is off-topic, but having worked in the meat production industry, I can say that those kosher laws still have a very sound health and hygiene basis....
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Earthwizard, aka., Cr...
myrkryder
Feb 16, 2004 9:04 pm
No, no... I agree with you questioning Sunny, I disagree with many of her findings myself... And, yes, one must be a full blow Traditionalist to ever begin to...
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Mark Schoenberg
wridirman
Feb 16, 2004 9:20 pm
Certainly not, Rig. If the spirit behind the work - the heart of it - is pure, then I don't want to be completely inflexible as to the methodology. So long ...
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Rig Svenson
rig_svenson
Feb 16, 2004 9:26 pm
Hiya, I was possessed by Loki during trance possession work. Tell me about your experiences with Loki? Fascinated Rig "Earthwizard, aka., Craig Hickman"...
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thorgret
apachentraene
Feb 16, 2004 9:45 pm
"Go raibh beannacht na ndéithe agus ár sinsir ar sibh, May the blessings of the gods be upon you!" craig Heilsa Earthwizard, which language ist he above...
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Rig Svenson
rig_svenson
Feb 16, 2004 9:46 pm
Hi Mark, Hi mark, I have been trying to piece together fragments of lore to make sence of the Aesir migration patterns and their early languages or symbols. I...
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Earthwizard, aka., Cr...
myrkryder
Feb 16, 2004 9:56 pm
I spent many years in Druidhe before returning to the Northern Traditons... This is a saying out of the Scots Gaelic.... of, course there are six extant...
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Earthwizard, aka., Cr...
myrkryder
Feb 16, 2004 10:32 pm
I suppose this is to be a rune group... is speaking of seidmadr workings alright? Well, as my painting of this experience shows forth: ...
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Rig Svenson
rig_svenson
Feb 17, 2004 6:47 am
Hiya, Seems that the nam experience brought back more than Vets. I am off course refering to Diana's Paxson's book Brisingamen. Thank you for sharing that part...
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Earthwizard, aka., Cr...
myrkryder
Feb 17, 2004 7:38 am
Funny you should say that about the Nam... yes, it has influenced me deeply! In fact my art seems to be riddled with Southeast Asia and the dark alphs of that...
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Earthwizard, aka., Cr...
myrkryder
Feb 17, 2004 7:53 am
Sorry the link for that new painting is: http://www.earthwisdom.info/fairyland/DragonTemple.jpg hope you enjoy... This one took me about 60 hours are so of...
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Goði Frank Coleman
frank62281x
Feb 17, 2004 12:10 pm
Heilsa Terresem! I would suggest the following: Red orchre powder (preferrably hand-ground), linseed oil, egg white, a dab of blótmead, and your own blood. ...
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Jaretlb@...
jaretlb
Feb 17, 2004 2:23 pm
Nice painting Craig. What medium did you use and how large is the original? Paintings are never really finished are they? I can look at something from twenty...
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Robin Poe
eonechuir
Feb 17, 2004 2:23 pm
According to M. Grieve in her book, "A Modern Herbal," Traditionally, red madder was the pigment used by the Northern folk for this purpose. If the plant...
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Jaretlb@...
jaretlb
Feb 17, 2004 2:41 pm
Pure pigment mixed with egg white is one of the most permanent treatments you can use. Dries Very quickly, you have to mix a little and work fast. If you use ...
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Earthwizard, aka., Cr...
myrkryder
Feb 17, 2004 3:26 pm
The original was started from pen and ink sketch with a watercolor wash, scanned into Photoshop, then worked to completion... having been thrown into...
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Robin Poe
eonechuir
Feb 17, 2004 8:20 pm
I am familiar with egg tempra medium, and it dries fast and is permanent. It works very well with the herb-based madder pigment, and was a medium of choice in...
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ask me
crystal_drea...
Feb 18, 2004 8:54 am
Greetings EarthWizard & All I have been perched on my post watching and absorbing the wonderful information you all have to share. You EarthWizard have brought...
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Robin Poe
eonechuir
Feb 18, 2004 9:05 am
Dear Crystal Try to collect your branches green (fresh cut) and start to work on them immediately. Green wood is waaaaaaaaaaay easier to carve on. I also used...
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Craig Hickman
myrkryder
Feb 18, 2004 6:34 pm
Not sure if a poem and pic is appropriate, but my painting does incorporate runagaldr inscriptions hidden within the complexity of its stone carvings... ...
