Symbol

2009-08-24T19:06:00.001-07:00

Thought it was time to add the symbol to this site.

Guiding Goddesses

2009-02-26T14:10:00.001-08:00

Athana is teaching us about those female deities who she calls Guiding Goddesses.

Ingwaz?

2008-06-07T17:01:00.000-07:00

Ing (Yngvi, Ingui) is an earlier name for the god we know as Freyr ("Freyr" was originally a title meaning "lord"). Ing was a son of Mannus and ancestor of the Ingaevones ("people of Yngvi"), a West Germanic tribal group living on the coast of the North Sea in the areas of Jutland, Holstein, Frisia and the Danish islands, according to the early Roman historian, Tacitus.

Tacitus' source categorized the Ingaevones near the ocean as one of the three tribal groups descended from the three sons of Mannus, son of Tuisto, progenitor of all the Germanic peoples, the other two being the Hermiones and the Istaevones. According to Roman historian Pliny the Elder, the Ingvaeones were one of five Germanic confederations, made up of Cimbri, Teutons, and Chauci.

Ing, the legendary father of the Ingaevones/Ingvaeones derives his name from a posited proto-Germanic Ingwaz, signifying "man" and "son of", the same name applied to the Viking era deity Freyr.

According to Jacob Grimm, Ing and the Scandinavian Yngvi, ancestor of the Swedish monarchy, are one and the same.

Ingwaz, the ŋ-rune, doesn't appear in the Norwegian, Icelandic, or Anglo-Saxon rune poems, but we do find it in some ninth-century verses published in the early 1700s as The Old English Rune Poem.

Like Perthro and Eihwaz, Ingwaz is a rune of uncertain origins. Nevertheless, it has its well-established place in the runes, and connotes male lineage, family connections, leadership, and the authentic self.