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Chapter 7. At the Well of Urð 178
that same point in time and are laid down as a single complex layer (¸orlög) within
the Well of Urð. To see a particular bird, a cuckoo, for example, engaged in an
activity which it normally would not engage in, such as singing during the wrong
time of day or flying in an abnormal fashion, implies that there are other out of
the ordinary conditions taking place in the world to which the cuckoo’s behavior is
related; the cuckoo’s behavior is a signal, then, rather than a supernatural event.
The cuckoo’s behavior is like the warning light in a car; one needs to understand “the
meaning” of the light to know what is happening in some hidden place in the engine.
Understanding relationships and connections helps when one is reading some of the
odd interpretations in Grimm’s.
When using any system to access knowledge from the Well of Urð, it is important
to have a consistent worldview. Every worldview, and there are many, is like the
logic behind a secret code. By understanding how a code is constructed, one is able
to interpret messages with little difficulty; however, if one does not understand the
logic behind the code, a message is nothing more than a series of curious symbols
on a page. Without an understanding of the fine relationships between events and
a method for seeing the role that a lucky-sign plays within the complex layer of
events, an omen is just a curious, isolated occurrence and any attempt at interpreting
the sign is futile. It is the relationship between the individual, the sign, and the
“unknown” of the same layer of events which lends meaning to the sign; this is
the background against which the omen plays that was mentioned earlier. When
approaching the reading of Germanic lucky-signs, it is crucial to have a good grasp
of the Germanic worldview.
In the mid-1970’s, a man named Ralph Blum in the now fairly well-known Book
of Runes 8 created a system for using the ancient Germanic script, known today as
runes, as a form of divination. The idea was that each letter in the Germanic
FUÞARK (Germanic alphabet; the name fuþark is actually the first six letters of
the alphabet: F U Þ A R K) carried with it a specific meaning. The book and
its methods were really a first attempt at “reconstruction” of a Germanic system of
divination recorded by Tacitus in Germania:
“For omens and the casting of lots they have the highest regard. Their
procedure in casting lots is always the same. They cut off the branch of a
nut-bearing tree and slice it into strips; these they mark with different signs
8 Actually, the use of runes for divination is older than Blum’s system by at least one hundred
years, at least as far as can be accurately traced without getting into much speculation. Avid
runesters, as they are often called like to trace the roots of their system back to Tacitus, but the
proof of this is rather speculative. Additionally, these same folk disregard Blum’s system as being
both artificial and non-Germanic and not without reason. Much has been written on the area
of runes which is far more traditional and accurate. The reader is referred to Edred Thorsson’s,
Kveldulf Gundarsson’s, or Jan Fries’ books for more acceptable runic divination systems.