TEUTONIC MAGIC - Awaken Video

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Letter: M
(Man) is in his mirth
dear to his kinsman
although each shall
depart from the other
for the lord wants to commit
by his decree
that frail flesh
to the earth.
Anglo-Saxon Rune Poem (see also Elhaz)
MANNAZ
The rune-name mannaz is a close cognate to the god Mannus of the Germanic tribes. Mannus was the son
of Tvisto, who had sprung up from the earth, and the father of the three races of humanity (slaves, the
freeborn, and the noble), The same story is told of the Celtic Mannan mac Lir and of Agni in the Rig
Veda. In the Norse legends, the place of Mannus is taken by Heimdallr under the name Rigr, which is the
Celtic title meaning “king.” Whether the story was passed from the Irish to the Norse or grew
independently from Indo-European roots, it still tells the tale of humanity’s descent from the gods as well
as from earth (“the increase of dust,” as mentioned under elhaz). As the warder of Bifrost Heimdallr is
also the linker of humans and the gods, both genetically and consciously, as described in the Rigsthula.
After Heimdallr has fathered the three races of men, he returns to teach Earl, first of the line of nobles,
and to show him the way to conquer his inheritance. In Germanic mystical tales, the reference to nobility
is a code speaking of those people who are able to awaken and use the might within themselves. Thus it
was written that “Walking Rigr came, taught him the runes / and granted his own name, saying it
belonged to his son. / Rigr bade him take possession of Udal Vales and old halls... He rode forth on his
horse, swung his sword... fought for land,” “He contended in runes with Earl Rigr. / He battled him in
wits, and knew the runes better. / So he came to have for himself / the name Rigr and runelore.”2 The key
to this inheritance is the power of the mind, especially as shown through the runes. Note that Rigr’s true
heir in the second generation is not the first of Earl’s sons, but Kon, the youngest. This is an inheritance
that can only be won by those who are worthy.
Mannaz is the rune of the rational mind, of the intelligence which is the greatest might of human
beings. It shows the interaction of Huginn and Muninn, or Hoenir and Mimir, both embodiments of the
faculties of hugr, “thought” and minni, “memory,” left brain and right brain respectively.3 Mannaz is the
rune of the perfected intellect which melds reason and intuition. As the rune of consciousness, it is
particularly associated with Mimir, odhinn’s maternal uncle and teacher, and in particular with the story
of Mimir’s severed head. The tale of Odhinn preserving the head with herbs and spells and getting redes
from it in his hours of need is actually a hint towards a ritual of reaching and learning from your “racememory,”
the transmitted wisdom of your ancestors. In this aspect mannaz is closely related to othala, as
hinted by the reference to the “udal lands” (entailed by primogeniture) in the Rigsthula.
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