TEUTONIC MAGIC - Awaken Video

ELHAZ
Galdr-sound: zzzzzzzzzzz (a deep, fulL buzzing, halfway between Z and R, rather similar to the g in
“rouge”)
Letter: Z, final A
(Elk’s sedge) has its home
most often in the fen
it waxes in the water
and grimly wounds
and burns with blood any man
who in any way
tries to grasp it.
Anglo-Saxon RunePoem
(Man) is the increase of dust;
mighty is the talon-span of the hawk
Old Norwegian Rune Rhyme
(Man) is the joy of man,
and the increase of dust
and the adornment of ships.
Old Icelandic Rune Poem
Man in the middle I yew holds all
Abcedarium Nordmannicum
I know a fourteenth
If I talk of the gods before the folk,
1 can speak of Ases and elves.
Few of the unlearned I know these things.
Havamal 159
The name elhaz may be derived from the words for “elk,” swan, or protection,” or possibly, from
he Germanic twin-gods known as the Alcis. The reversed stave of the Younger Futhark is called “yew” or
“yew-bow.” All of these names carry a meaning of both warding and holiness. The rune elhaz is closely
related to the rune mannaz; in the Younger Futhark, the stave-shape is given the name mad/ir, or “man.”
The two runes are alike in that both refer to the spirit in earthly shape that is the being of humanity, the
difference lying in that elhaz rules the pathways between the gods and humans and the drawing/sending
downward of godly might, while mannaz is the rune of the indwelling, inherited seed of the godly being
in humankind. The alternate shape of this stave, the Younger Futhark’s “yew” (I ), is also associated with
eihwaz, and the primal tree-shape (I) is very similar to the snowflake-shape of hagalaz ( I). The difference
is that the “branches” are connected to the “roots” by a bridge showing the human awareness of
Midgardhr as the middle of all things, “man in the middle.” The rune elhaz shows the awareness of the
human that she or he is both a microcosm of the universe and (necessarily, because of the nature of
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