Teutonic Magic by Kveldulf Gundarsson

Author:Kveldulf Gundarsson [Gundarsson, Kveldulf]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Asatru, Heathen, Non-Fiction, Norse, Occult, Reference, Vikings
ISBN: 9781870450225
Publisher: Thoth Publications
Published: 1990-07-14T23:00:00+00:00

148 I Teutonic Magic

INGWAZ

Stave:

Galdr-sound: Innnnnggggg (bright and clear; the ng sound held as

long as possible) Letter: NG

''(Ing) among the East-Danes was first / beheld by men, until that later time when to the east / he made his departure over the waves, followed by his chariot / that was the name those stern warriors gave the hero/' (Anglo-Saxon Rune Poem)

The rune ingwaz is the male counterpart to berkano—as berkano is the great mother who receives, conceals, and brings forth, ingwaz is her sacrificed consort and the seed she keeps within her until it is ready for birth. The rune poem may refer to the spring procession of Nerthus in the wagon. As described by Tacitus, and in the Norse equivalents of this procession, the mortal consort of the deity rode in or ahead of the wagon carrying the god's statue, and it is plausible that what is described here is Nerthus' consort Ing riding ahead until the goddess' return to the sacred island, when he might very well be slain. The god Ing, of course, would be re-embodied in each year's male sacrifice, and during the days of the procession the incarnation of the god would be encouraged to impregnate as many women as he could. This may be the source of the beliefs of many of the Germanic royal houses that they were descended from Ing or Freyr; their ancestors had indeed been fathered by the god dwelling in the body of a man. This may be seen as a Vanic likeness to the ideas shown by the Rigsthula and the rune mannaz—mannaz unites the divine descendant with the heavens and spiritual wisdom of the Aesir, ingwaz unites her/him with the earth and the nature-wisdom of the Vanir.

The stave-shape of ingwaz may show either the castrated male or the seed: both are appropriate to the rune, as the feminine principle receives the life-force of the masculine principle through both

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