TEUTONIC MAGIC - Awaken Video

TIWAZ
Galdr-sound: tiw-tiw-tiw (to rhyme with “few”; short and sharp)
Letter: T
(Tir) is a star,
it keeps faith well
with athlings,
always on its course
over the mists of night
it never fails.
Anglo-Saxon Rune Poem
(Tyr) is the one-handed among the Aesir
the smith has to blow often.
Old Norwegian Rune Rhyme
(Tyr) is the one-handed god
and the leavings of the wolf
and the ruler of the temple.
Old Icelandic Rune Poem
I know a twelfth: If I see a hanged man
swinging high in a tree,
I can carve and stain runes,
so that the man walks and speaks with me.
Havamal 157
The stave-shape of tiwaz shows a spear, the weapon of the sky- father god and lord of victory. The image
of the one-handed god liftmg a spear is shown in the oldest Indo-European rock carvings and is clearly
Tyr or Tiwaz, whose name in its earlier form is cognate to the Latin deus, Greek theos, and Greek Zeus.
Originally, Tyr held the highest place among the gods, as sky-father and lord of law, courage, and war.
Only when the runes and their power became known to humans did Odhinn come forth as All-Father,
assuming such sides of Tyr’s being as were not wholly contradictory to his own nature. Several of the
uses of the spear in Odhinnic worship come from this assimilation, particularly the practice of casting the
spear over one’s enemies to “give them to Odhinn.” Most of Tyr’s characteristics, however, were so
different from Odhinn’s being as to preclude assimilation, and hence though Tyr’s place in written myth
is fairly limited (owing possibly to the subsitution of Odhinn in some places), he remained a powerful
force as a religious figure.
The rune tiwaz is similar to eihwaz and elhaz in that it shows forth the central column of the
world; but where eihwaz shows melding of the lowest and the highest and elhaz shows communication,
tiwaz represents the separation of the heavens and the earth. Thorsson identifies the rune tiwaz with the
Saxon Irminsul the great pillar holding up the heavens.~ Odhinn is essentially bipolar; Tyr is essentially
unipolar, as shown by his one-handedness-a literal sign that Tyr is bound to a single course of action, as
opposed to the ever- changing Odhinn.
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