TEUTONIC MAGIC - Awaken Video

BERKANO
Galdr-sound: bbbbbb (a deep, very soft hum with lips almost closed; the lips may part and open swiftly
to vibrate the sound b-b-b-b-b-b if you find the continuous sound difficult)
Letter: B
(Birch) is without fruit
but just the same it bears
limbs without fertile seed
it has beautiful branches
high on its crown
it is finely covered
loaded with leaves
touching the sky
Anglo-Saxon Rune Poem
(Birch twig) is the limb greenest with leaves
Loki brought the luck of deceit.
Old Norwegian Rune Rhyme
(Birch twig) is a leafy limb
and a little tree
and a youthful wood.
Old Icelandic Rune Poem
I know a thirteenth:
If I sprinkle a young thane I with water,
he will not fall, though he goes to battle.
He will not be cut down, by swords.”
Havamal 158
The rune berkano, “birch,” is the rune of the Great Mother, the goddess worshipped as Nerthus by
the early Germanic people, who became Holda on the continent and was split into Hel and Freyja in the
Norse countries. This rune embodies the root of much of the Vanic cult: the earth goddess whose powers
of fertility must be renewed by the sacrifice of her consort each year. The stave-shape for berkano may be
seen as the swollen breasts and belly of a pregnant woman; it may also be seen as the mirroring and
fundamentally identical enclosures of womb and tomb. As Freyja, Berkano is the source of life; as Hel,
she is keeper of the dead; as the Aesic Frigg, she is the silent keeper of wisdom who “knows all orlog, I
though she does not say so herself.”1 Looking with care, you can see that each of these goddesses bears
within herself aspects of the others-they are all maternal, keepers of their share of the dead, and silent
seeresses.
Berkano is the rune of the earth who receives the sacrifice/seed and holds it within herself, guarding and
nourishing it until the time has come for it to return to the worlds outside again. This is the process of
rebirth for those who do not struggle up to Valhalla.
As a rune of fruitfulness, berkano particularly rules the birth- process of the spring, when the power
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