TEUTONIC MAGIC - Awaken Video

Galdr-sound: nnnnnnn
Letter: N
(Need) is constricting
on the chest
Although to the children of men
it often becomes help and salvation
nevertheless I if they heed it in time.
— Anglo-Saxon Rune Poem
(Need) makes for a difficult situation
the naked freeze in the frost.
— Old Norwegian Rune Rhyme
(Need) is the grief of the bondmaid
and a hard condition to be in
and toilsome work.”
— Old Icelandic Rune Poem
I know an eighth. It is useful for all who know it.
Whenever hatred flares up among warriors’ sons,
I am able to quell it.
— Havamal 153
NAUTHIZ
The stave-shape of the rune nauthiz shows the bow-drill used in kindling the need-fire from wood
without the use of flint or steel. The ritual of the need-fire was generally used when a sickness had fallen
upon the cattle of a clan or village. The need-fire would be kindled by the leader of the folk (who was
also the godhi, or priest, in pagan times) and the cattle driven through the smoke. The magical meaning of
this act is that the extra energy needed to kindle the fire by the means of the bow-drill would also supply
the additional power needed to force out the sickness and cleanse the cattle.
Nauthiz is the testing and suffering which brings the hidden magical force of fehu forth. It is the
self-generated fire kindled in the time of greatest need. Nauthiz represents the unloosing of potential
energy on all levels.
This rune is the force of friction and resistance which builds up the individual strength and will. Its
being is best written out in the sayings, “Every battle that doesn’t kill you, makes you stronger,” and “No
pain, no gain.” You may mark that the stave shape resembles that of a gebo-rune with one line straight up
and the other canted. This rune, like gebo, embodies the need of sacrifice for results; however, unlike
gebo, it is not a rune of mutual interaction, but of the type of sacrifice to self in which all the energy is
guided in one path-the power of imbalance, as set against the balance of gebo.
In the earthly body, nauthiz shows forth as the phenomenon of “hysterical strength”: the sudden
burst of adrenaline which makes ordinary people capable of seemingly impossible feats of strength in
desperate circumstances and which is one of the components of the berserker-power. Magically, it is the
rune which gives you the strength not only to meet trials but to overcome them. It is most effective when
you are working to counter or “write around” that which has already been written in the Well of Urdhr, as
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