About this title: Runes comprise a powerful system of divination and a path to the subconscious forces operating in your life. In NORTHERN MYSTERIES & MAGICK you will discover how the feminine Mysteries of the North are represented in the runes, and how each of the major deities of Northern Europe still live in the collective consciousness of people of Northern European descent. Chapters on runic divination and magic introduce the use of runes in counselling and healing.
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide Ltd
Date Published: 1998-07-01
ISBN-13:9781567180473ISBN:1567180477
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Llewellyn Publications
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9781567180473ISBN:1567180477
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Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Llewellyn
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9781567180473ISBN:1567180477
Description: CD included, as issued, in this 2nd revised edition. Illustrated, index, 251+ pgs. A nice copy with minor curve to cover & first section, minor edge wear. Cover art differs from edition shown at Alibris. Clean unmarked square & well bound, spine uncreased. The CD is new, still sealed. Contains rune bookmark, as issued. Delivery confirmed. Thank you! read more
Edition: Second Printing
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Llewellyn Publications, St. Paul, MN
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9781567180473ISBN:1567180477
Description: Good. Includes compact disc. pages clean. binding tight. edge wear with denting and ink chips. corners dented. bottom corners creased. previous owners bookplates on front pages. read more
Description: New. NORTHERN MYSTERIES & MAGICK is the revised edition of the classic LEAVES OF YGGDRASIL, with an updated and expanded section on the feminine Mysteries. Freya Aswynn is one of England's foremost authorities on the runes and their history. read more
"This is a great book, but a good knowledge of Asatru is assumed, as is a basic understanding of thelema. This isn't a rune book for divination; it's a rune book for magical uses of runes. It's great for adding to your knowledge of the runes when you have a working understanding of them already. I love that the author is courageous. She doesn't tow any Asatru/Odinist/Heathen party line - She is very upfront about shamanic work and that being just as valid as what other Heathens call the Lore. Plus she speaks a lot about her personal life when relevant, which I adore. She seems HUMAN and SUPERHUMAN all at once, not just a Viking warrioress lost in days of old. (She's one firmly in today!) She does work with hexes, which I am not sure how I personally feel about that. There isn't very much written about magic and Asatru, so it's a gem to have. Of course it is written by a woman. :)"
"I thought this was an excellent introduction to the runes, she connects them with Eddaic mythology and cosmology. She also discusses seidhr (which is like Norse shamanism) and a female slant to Asatru. But I have been told by heathens this book has some innacuracies. Still, I think it has its good points, just keep in mind it's mostly her personal interpretations, and modern not ancient practices."
"I really wanted to like this book a lot more then I did. While it is probably the best of the many Wiccan influenced "Asatru" books that have been published she just carries too much of the baggage from those ideas for my tastes.
Northern Mysteries & Magick is mostly about runes, which I make no claims to be any kind of great expert in runology but she is obviously, and she admits it, heavily influenced by general occultism, Crowley, Kabbalism, Wicca and other "new age" ideas. Which I believe are not only incompatable with true Aryan Heathenry, they actually derive from forces that are in opposition to our folk. Even if you don't want to say it is an intentional conspiratorial subversion by people with "occult" or "new age" backgrounds writing books about Odinism the influence is still there.
While on one hand Aswynn does talk about keeping Northern European Heathenry authentic and Germanic, she also quotes Crowley two or three times and talks with high praise of two people of "African origin" being gifted at Runic divination. Also, and you can take this for what its worth, she claims that she fended off a would be attacker by shapeshifting into a hawk and flying after him.
She does have some interesting and feasable ideas though. She has a Pan-Germanic view of "Asatru", and seems to acknowledge a few times that it is Pan-Aryan, including Celtic, Slavic, and Greco-Roman Gods as being one and the same as the Germanic and also has some interesting observations on the Gods, the runes and the religious practices of the northern folk so its worth reading if you can get it from a library or pick up a cheap copy."
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