What is/are the source(s) of your information relating to the Elder Futhark representing the ’24 gods & goddesses’?

This is a new one on me.

Who has said what you claim? What/who are the sources of their claims?

Your spelling of magical as ‘magickal’ suggests a ‘new age’ occultist source.

#1:
The Rúnatal & The Ljódatal do not mention any specific symbols. In fact, The Ljódatal refers to ‘songs’ (i.e. ‘vocalised spells/incantations’).

So, inadvertently, you have got that partly right.

But then you contradict yourself with your 24 deities claim.

The word ‘rune’ indicates ‘secret/charm/spell’, and does NOT indicate the Futhark(s). It’s actually an unfortunate conventional misnomer to refer to the letters of the Futhark as ‘runes’.

The names of the ‘runes’ come from the Rune Poems, which are mnemonic verses.

#2:
The edicts you refer to relate to the use of sorcery/cursing/etc., and were not necessarily from the Roman Catholic Church. The pre-Christian Norse had taboos against sorcery, finding it rather distasteful. They did not like witchcraft either.

If anything, beyond law and lore/tradition, there was no unifying common ‘religion’ in ancient Norse society. There was no Norse ‘bible’, no ‘Book of Common Prayer’.

There is NO basis in the claims of ‘tradition’ made by those who have invented ‘Old’ religions, let alone ‘runic tantra’. Why do all the rituals seem (like Wicca) to be travesties of Christian ritual (And why do the high priests always seem to dress like Christian monks!)?

#3:
Your claim that the meanings of the ‘runes’ were changed by the ‘rune masters’ is in itself an admission that they themselves were making it up as they went along.

But this a new one on me.
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The problem with the occultists’ approach is that they extrapolate falsely, taking the bits they like and embellishing them according to their respective agendas, even using the Tarot or the I-Ching to discover the ‘meanings’ of the ‘runes’!

1+1 does not equal 11!

The sources are available, in many excellent translations.

I refer you to them.

Remember: do not climb a tree that has no roots.

Because every society has poets who think puns are a deep and meaningful expression of how clever they are.

So do I.

I don’t think so, Phil.

Jonathan, I think anybody couldn’t do that. May be anyone as competent in Old Norse as the scholars above, but that’s a different thing.