Ah! Now you're talkin' a language I understand! The Collective Unconscious! Carl Jung! The Archetypes! The Hundredth Monkey! It's Ubiquitous!
Things to do while waiting for your mead...
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Ah! Now you're talkin' a language I understand! The Collective Unconscious! Carl Jung! The Archetypes! The Hundredth Monkey! It's Ubiquitous!
Ha! ;D I was more just thinking the common aesthetic of simple geometry though! We people like shapes that make sense but also surprise us I think. There's also some great science behind why we (humans) invented our various musical note systems, and why we enjoy "in tune" harmonies more than "out of tune" ones (generally... dissonance has it's place
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@Gunlilly, I understand what you're saying, and you're correct in all technicalities. What I was saying was just the agreed/accepted common look of the rune in my kindred. Someone else's faith will vary, depending on where they come from.
@ATOTE, there are various myths from around the world, not just across countries, that match in disturbing ways. Almost every culture has some sort of vampire type mythos for example, though the details can vary. Several societies had different kinds of vampires depending on who was attacked and what was sucked out. The dragon is also a global creature, and so are many other creatures. I don't think it's hard to believe that symbols would be any different, and just like the creatures, the meaning behind the symbol would change depending on the culture that's using it.
(I also read a lot while I'm waiting for my mead to age, heh. Yay Collective Unconscious/Entanglement Theory!)
@ATOTE, there are various myths from around the world, not just across countries, that match in disturbing ways. Almost every culture has some sort of vampire type mythos for example, though the details can vary. Several societies had different kinds of vampires depending on who was attacked and what was sucked out. The dragon is also a global creature, and so are many other creatures. I don't think it's hard to believe that symbols would be any different, and just like the creatures, the meaning behind the symbol would change depending on the culture that's using it.
(I also read a lot while I'm waiting for my mead to age, heh. Yay Collective Unconscious/Entanglement Theory!)
The fylfot also isn't a rune, it's a symbol. It was never used for writing and is not found in the Elder or Younger Futhark. I too am Heathen, a reconstructionist Heathen, and don't state things as fact that my kindred believes if it isn't in fact a fact.
Let's stay friendly people, you're making me uncomfortable and I survive the Origin of Life thread in one piece!
But yes, I've never seen it used as a rune.
But yes, I've never seen it used as a rune.
I took a class in University at Ohio State that was all about vampires. Did you know that if left out past a certain date, vegetables will become vampires? They'll go "Burrl Burrl" and attack people.
Oh, and the Count from Sesame Street is actually an anthropologically correct vampire. Slavic Vampires were obsessed with counting. The Slavs would carry pockets full of sesame seeds, so that if being chased by a vampire they could scatter them in front of it. The vampire would be compelled to stop and count the seeds.
Aren't you glad your tax dollars subsidized my "education"? ;D
I'm more concerned about the mental image of a cow attempting to 'hump' a sandworm's 'leg'.
But maybe that's cos I rarely pay US tax...
Hair Farming!
In January I gave away my hair to Locks of Love.
I'm working on a second batch now!
In January I gave away my hair to Locks of Love.
I'm working on a second batch now!
I did something like that for my Senior graduation 'rebellion'. I found a charity called St Baldricks, and for two months we got people to donate money to our goals. If our goal was reached, we would all shave our heads bald. (Mine was $1,500 because I'm a girl, and my chart got over $2,000) All the money went to children's cancer research at St Jude's. Then anyone who's hair was long enough donated the hair to Locks of Love.
I almost wasn't allowed to walk at my graduation because "females with bald heads" was against the dress code, till a mother of a friend of mine who had cancer walked in to the principal's office, pulled her hat off, and demanded to know what was wrong with woman with bald heads.
I'm a rebel like that, breaking the dress code through charity.
I almost wasn't allowed to walk at my graduation because "females with bald heads" was against the dress code, till a mother of a friend of mine who had cancer walked in to the principal's office, pulled her hat off, and demanded to know what was wrong with woman with bald heads.
I'm a rebel like that, breaking the dress code through charity.
Awesome... I think when I finally let my hubby cut his hair I'm gonna make sure it's in shape to be donated. The man has no split ends (grr). My hair refuses to grow long enough to leave me with enough to make a ponytail if I took off enough to donate... so I'll wistfully leave that to people who can actually grow hair 
...and as for breaking dress codes, GO GIRL! I have ten years of formal work wardrobe centred around "can I wear it with cowboy boots"... then I got married in them. They're black ones. And by the time we got to the garter thing, I was wearing green triangle dress-workboots...
...and as for breaking dress codes, GO GIRL! I have ten years of formal work wardrobe centred around "can I wear it with cowboy boots"... then I got married in them. They're black ones. And by the time we got to the garter thing, I was wearing green triangle dress-workboots...
Really?! That is honestly one of the most subtley messed up things I have ever heard!
I graduated in a hawaiian t-shit and dreadlocks.
We do St Baldric at our school, but I'm not interested in cutting my hair (which is waist-length, fortunately so far I haven't lost it due to chemo). We've had a few girls who cut off a lot of hair, bit sure as heck nobody would give them grief about being bald at graduation!
Ah, bible belt small town school. They actually did a clothing check under our robes before we walked to make sure we were 'up to code' and if you weren't, they literally would turn you away at the door. The only reason girls were even allowed to wear dress pants and not an actual dress or a skirt under the robes was because a few years before I graduated my sister almost took the school to court for sexual discrimination. It's a family tradition to screw with the small minded jerks I guess.
I think I was born to it too... my mom once made a VERY public display of cutting up her Sears card in the middle of the store because they insisted on putting "Mrs. <my dad's first and last name>" rather than letting her use her own first name...
Nothing wrong with a dress code at a formal event where high school students are prone to making unwise choices that might disrupt the proceedings. Although by no means in the Bible Belt (which really shouldn't be an insult), we also check our graduates, twice: once as they are admitted through the doors at Arco Arena (or power balance whatever it's called these days), and once again right before they cross the stage. They have to be fully clothed under their robes and not have any beach balls, etc. It gets really really bad if this isn't done, and parents get irate when their kid's graduation is marred by someone else's kid's histrionics. Bald heads, however, are fine. 
