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The Assembly of The Elder Troth would like to welcome you to our website. Please click on the links to the left to enter the relevant area of our site. Heil and welcome to the Articles section of the Assembly of The Elder Troth website. Here you can find items written by many wide and varied folk. The idea is to provide a venue for discussion, debate and education amongst the folk by giving people an individual flavour to the information provided. Every article here is the work of its' author. The Assembly of The Elder Troth DOES NOT endorse the words or anything that is found herein as being official Assembly of The Elder Troth policy, it is purely the work of the author as provided in each case, and Copyright rests with the Author, reproduction is prohibited without the authors permission. Runestaves in American Politics by Tag Barbarason Runestaves in American Politics Runes are the cosmic energies that organize the universe, discoverd by the shaman-god, Wotan. Runestaves are their graphic representations, used by Northern European peoples for the last two millenia.
Only a handful of those who wore the peace sign had any idea of what it was, only a handful in the world knew its true name, Yr, the peace rune, the death rune. After all, only the dead truly know peace. Thus it was that the Yew stave became the symbol of the death of the Christian Anglo-Saxon America that had emerged after the Civil War. The highly toxic berries of the Yew tree are said to admit an entheogenic vapor, thus making this the rune of the shaman and altered states of consciousness. as well. HOME
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After the 911 attacks it seemed that everywhere one looked there was a
flag, an eagle or an Othala stave made out or a red white and blue ribbon.
This was as far as I can tell a spontaneous manifestation of a runic archetype
out of the collective memory. Othala is the last stave in the elder futhark,
the rune of inheritance and property, the homeland rune.
The comic-book caricature racist, Dr. William Pierce uses the Algiz stave
for his group, the National Alliance. The Hillsboro Hitler reputedly frowns
on any kind of "magic or superstition" and chose the Elk stave
simply as a visually striking symbol of the Nordic past. Nevertheless,
the septugenarian has managed to stay out of jail, and is rumored to be
banging away at his young secretary, thanks perhaps in part, to Algiz,
the elk rune, the rune of warding and protection.
Its a virtual certainly that Malcolm X had never heard of the Gebo rune,
when he adopted it his last name , nor did his followers when twenty years
later they adopted it as his symbol (much to the chagrin of the punk uber-band
"X" ) Gift, Exchange, Revenge - It summed up both his uncompromising
attitude to the White man and the circumstances of his murder on the orders
of his erstwhile mentor, the Hon. Elijah Muhammad. Incidentally, I get
a kick out of the ball-hats that show a Confederate battle-flag with the
caption below: "You wear your X and Ill wear mine." Once again,
the exchange, the tit-for-tat of Gebo manifests itself unconciously.
The most powerful runic manifestation in American political life was in
the late sixties, when the younger row's Yr (Yew) stave, encircled, became
what popularly known as the "peace sign'". Invented by Bertrand
Russell's League for Nuclear Disarmment, supposedly it was a graphic representation
of the semaphore code for N and D. (How well was Lord Russell acquainted
with Havamal translator W. H. Auden?)