TEUTONIC MAGIC - Awaken Video

JERA
Galdr-sound: yyyyyyyyyy (as in “year”)
Letter: J,Y (remember that in pure Teutonic languages such as German and Old Norse J is always
pronounced as Y)
(Harvest) is the hope of
men,
when god lets,
holy king of heaven,
the earth gives
her bright fruits
to the noble ones and the needy.
Anglo-Saxon Rune Poem
(Good harvest) is the profit of men;
1 say that Frodhi was generous.
Old Norwegian Rune Rhyme
(Good harvest) is the profit of all men,
and a good summer,
and a ripened field.
Old Icelandic Rune Poem
I know a tenth. If I see ghost-riders I sporting in the sky,
I can work it I that the wild ones fare away
so their spirits fare home.
Havamal 155
The shape of the rune jera shows the way in which the Germanic peoples thought of the seasons
and their interactions, particularly concerning the ways of farming. The Teutonic year is not divided into
four seasons, but two, summer and winter, which work upon each other continuously. The harvest of the
summer is food for the winter. At the beginning of the winter, you plant the seeds which must lie under
the earth for a season in order to sprout as summer comes near. The rune-name, literally “year” speaks of
not only the course of a year, but of a good year with a rich harvest-a year in which all planting, tending,
reaping, and soon has been done as was fitting within the outer timetable of the year and its changeable
weather and the inner timetable of the plants themselves. The relationship between raidho and the
fulfillment of jera should be plain. Like raidho also, jera is a rune of the sun’s cycle, being the cycle of the
year as raidho is the cycle of the day.
The alternate stave-shape of jera is the same as the alternate form of ingwaz: the glyph indicating
the complete male genitalia (as set against the Elder Futhark’s ingwaz, which shows the castrated male).
This shows one of the workings of the god Freyr in the process of bringing-into-being: Freyr as Lord of
the World. Although the pattern of cyclical growth is “feminine,” as set against the “masculine” straight
line, it needs the masculine force of Freyr to bring it to full being. The alternate stave-shape shows the
straight line passing into the circle, bringing out this rune’s interaction-of-opposites in yet another way.
Jera may be looked at as, in a sense, a “Teutonic yin-yang,” showing the interlocking of fire
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