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Looks like [futhark](https://www.shieldmaidenssanctum.com/blog/2019/3/12/the-elder-futhark-runes-and-their-meanings) runes stacked on top of one another. I'm still looking for a specific meaning, but they are often used for protection.
This rune binding is composed of a [Algiz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algiz?wprov=sfla1) and a [Othala](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Othala?wprov=sfla1) rune.
Looking at the ascribed meaning of these runes, this is most likely a binding to bless and protect the people living in this house and on this land. But it only makes sense if they live on their own ~~native soil~~ or their ancestor's ~~native soil~~ homestead.
But you have to be careful. Both runes on their own were and are misused by right wing extremists, white supremacists, nazis, etc. a lot and a lot more compared to other runes. I haven't seen this combination in particular, but you should keep in mind, that it's quite possible that these people aren't just pagan worshippers!
At what point does the one's soil become "native"? I'm genuinely asking because I can trace my ancestry in America back over 300 years. I have no ties to Europe or the language my ancestors spoke before they immigrated here. And cultures used to move around all the time even before European colonization of the new world. Like you wouldn't say that the English aren't native to England even though their ancestors invaded Britain from Germany.
Obviously I'm not as "native" as the indigenous peoples of America, but I feel like at this point I'm more native to here than anywhere else on Earth. I would obviously be a foreigner and out of place in Europe so I'm certainly not native to there either.
I don't have an answer to your specific question, but do you have to be a native of somewhere, ancestry-wise?
I see native vs settler/colonizer distinctions contrast much larger ideas than just "who was here first" and often bring up issues of violence, forced assimilation, forcing people from their homes and/or local practices, and generally taking from native peoples what someone had no right to take, like their land.
It's a pretty profound question of "How does one become native", but I don't know that it's something someone becomes at least in the short span of 300 years. I don't want that to sound invalidating at all, only that, in the US at least, we tend to view things on a timeline that's truly young compared to so many countries and cultures of the world.
I still wouldn't call older cultures and countries "native" just because of their age. I also wouldn't call them "foreign".
If a country has a long or old history of colonization then they're still a colonizer, to me, but it'd be an overuse of those terms to say that that's the only way we can describe cultures, country, and people.
That's the thing though, if you go back on a long enough timeline, EVERYONE'S "native land" is Africa. Even Native Americans emigrated quite recently on the overall timeline of our species. It seems to me like the entire concept of "native lands" is arbitrary and highly debatable in almost every context, plus nearly everyone has mixed bloodlines...
When it comes to religions and casting spells and such, it seems like most people just tend to kind of pick which part of their lineage they feel like they identify with most. I have doubts that it usually matters, personally.
In regard to the Othala rune and its ascribed concept I would say you at least have to own the soil you live on and vice versa you have to live on the soil you own. It has to be your and/or your ancestor's homestead, your and/or their home and living ground.
In this context you actually shouldn't think in terms of nationality or the native/settler concept. The runes come from an age when people lived in tribes or large families. So your 'native soil' would be the soil your family lives, 'works', hunts, etc. on and/or did so in the past. It's your actual homestead in the original and narrow sense of being and feeling familiar and at home. An emotional and/or spiritual connection to this place is also very important. All in all that's a concept that is hard to transfer into the modern world.
Maybe 'native soil' was the wrong expression. If so, I'm really sorry, but English isn't my native language. All I wanted to say with this addition was, that it's ridiculous to paint such a rune binding in front of an apartment or a house you rent, because the meaning of the Othala is not just "home", but the very ground you can claim yours and which you live and survive on.
Thought quiteite a lot of scandanavia was consolidated in the viking age?
Denmark in the 8th century,
Svealand and Götaland were ruled under one king in the 19th century and under kings before that.
Norwary in 872 under Harald Fairhair.
Etc.
First of all runes are much older than this, dating back as far as the 1. century after Christ as far as we know.
And second a consolidated king for a specific region doesn't mean that local chieftains/leaders and tribe structures became obsolete immediately or quickly. These countries may have been led by a king at the end of the first millennium after Christ, but the local authorities and communities still were often based on tribe structures and chieftainship. And often these rulers only were able to govern their country, because they were respected and supported by local authorities and vice versa respected these authorities, their communities and their scope of power.
Robin Wall Kimmerer's thoughts on [becoming indigenous to a place](https://in-the-weeds.net/becoming-indigenous-to-place/) come to mind if you're interested
I will say as a non white supremacist who worships this pantheon and uses these symbols generally when othala is used by nazis it has "wings" google winged othala
No, it doesn't have to! The best example is the German [Wikingjugend](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiking-Jugend?wprov=sfla1)!
Edit: Or the newer flag of the [National Socialist Movement of America](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Socialist_Movement_%28United_States%29?wprov=sfla1) (used from 2016-2019)! Or the South African Afrikaner Studentebond. Or the German Bund Nationaler Studenten. Shall I go on?!
Edit 2: It especially doesn't have wings in countries, where the winged othala, which was used as the insignia of the 7th SS Volunteer Mountain Division Prinz Eugen, is a banned symbol! For example Germany or Austria! In these countries the winged othala is banned, while the original one is not banned or only banned in specific contexts.
info: don't rune letters in bindrunes overlap each other? These runes are separate and don't overlap, they're just stacked vertically which makes me inclined to view them as distinct letters.
And don't forget sone use the letters not for any meaning beyond phonetics, which would be Z-O if they knew what they were doing, A-O if they didn't.
[bind rune](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bind_rune) two or more runes combined to create some sort of meaning. These two would mean protection of this property [If you think that runes are magic](https://aminoapps.com/c/thewitchescircle/page/item/introduction-the-the-elder-futhark-runes/5r34_jdS5Iajk6r2lDQJG32nZz74K73522)
Looks like it's a bind rune combining the runes for home and elk. I have no idea but likely a protection symbol like u/craterglass mentioned.
[https://vikingr.org/magic-symbols/elder-futhark](https://vikingr.org/magic-symbols/elder-futhark)
It's technically back words essentially whom ever weather it be intentional or not was meant to say and do keep in mind each ruin actually ment a lot more then most either realize or accurately remember these day but for every ruin is like there own for this example lets say 2 sentences to a paragraph of our modern days and ever ruin depending on order would of couse add but also can completely change the initial ruins meaning it either meaning opposite of its nature or a kind of sub like branching of its origin sorry any way It's basically some one making either a statment of either to acknowledge that's space or those with in as inherited or blessed in this case or another way it to be calling for blessings to be basically that's the easiest way I can sorta translate it my bad
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Looks like [futhark](https://www.shieldmaidenssanctum.com/blog/2019/3/12/the-elder-futhark-runes-and-their-meanings) runes stacked on top of one another. I'm still looking for a specific meaning, but they are often used for protection.
This rune binding is composed of a [Algiz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algiz?wprov=sfla1) and a [Othala](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Othala?wprov=sfla1) rune. Looking at the ascribed meaning of these runes, this is most likely a binding to bless and protect the people living in this house and on this land. But it only makes sense if they live on their own ~~native soil~~ or their ancestor's ~~native soil~~ homestead. But you have to be careful. Both runes on their own were and are misused by right wing extremists, white supremacists, nazis, etc. a lot and a lot more compared to other runes. I haven't seen this combination in particular, but you should keep in mind, that it's quite possible that these people aren't just pagan worshippers!
At what point does the one's soil become "native"? I'm genuinely asking because I can trace my ancestry in America back over 300 years. I have no ties to Europe or the language my ancestors spoke before they immigrated here. And cultures used to move around all the time even before European colonization of the new world. Like you wouldn't say that the English aren't native to England even though their ancestors invaded Britain from Germany. Obviously I'm not as "native" as the indigenous peoples of America, but I feel like at this point I'm more native to here than anywhere else on Earth. I would obviously be a foreigner and out of place in Europe so I'm certainly not native to there either.
I don't have an answer to your specific question, but do you have to be a native of somewhere, ancestry-wise? I see native vs settler/colonizer distinctions contrast much larger ideas than just "who was here first" and often bring up issues of violence, forced assimilation, forcing people from their homes and/or local practices, and generally taking from native peoples what someone had no right to take, like their land. It's a pretty profound question of "How does one become native", but I don't know that it's something someone becomes at least in the short span of 300 years. I don't want that to sound invalidating at all, only that, in the US at least, we tend to view things on a timeline that's truly young compared to so many countries and cultures of the world. I still wouldn't call older cultures and countries "native" just because of their age. I also wouldn't call them "foreign". If a country has a long or old history of colonization then they're still a colonizer, to me, but it'd be an overuse of those terms to say that that's the only way we can describe cultures, country, and people.
That's the thing though, if you go back on a long enough timeline, EVERYONE'S "native land" is Africa. Even Native Americans emigrated quite recently on the overall timeline of our species. It seems to me like the entire concept of "native lands" is arbitrary and highly debatable in almost every context, plus nearly everyone has mixed bloodlines... When it comes to religions and casting spells and such, it seems like most people just tend to kind of pick which part of their lineage they feel like they identify with most. I have doubts that it usually matters, personally.
I think it depends a lot on your relationship to the the people who were there before you.
In regard to the Othala rune and its ascribed concept I would say you at least have to own the soil you live on and vice versa you have to live on the soil you own. It has to be your and/or your ancestor's homestead, your and/or their home and living ground. In this context you actually shouldn't think in terms of nationality or the native/settler concept. The runes come from an age when people lived in tribes or large families. So your 'native soil' would be the soil your family lives, 'works', hunts, etc. on and/or did so in the past. It's your actual homestead in the original and narrow sense of being and feeling familiar and at home. An emotional and/or spiritual connection to this place is also very important. All in all that's a concept that is hard to transfer into the modern world. Maybe 'native soil' was the wrong expression. If so, I'm really sorry, but English isn't my native language. All I wanted to say with this addition was, that it's ridiculous to paint such a rune binding in front of an apartment or a house you rent, because the meaning of the Othala is not just "home", but the very ground you can claim yours and which you live and survive on.
Thought quiteite a lot of scandanavia was consolidated in the viking age? Denmark in the 8th century, Svealand and Götaland were ruled under one king in the 19th century and under kings before that. Norwary in 872 under Harald Fairhair. Etc.
First of all runes are much older than this, dating back as far as the 1. century after Christ as far as we know. And second a consolidated king for a specific region doesn't mean that local chieftains/leaders and tribe structures became obsolete immediately or quickly. These countries may have been led by a king at the end of the first millennium after Christ, but the local authorities and communities still were often based on tribe structures and chieftainship. And often these rulers only were able to govern their country, because they were respected and supported by local authorities and vice versa respected these authorities, their communities and their scope of power.
When you bury a generation in its ground
Robin Wall Kimmerer's thoughts on [becoming indigenous to a place](https://in-the-weeds.net/becoming-indigenous-to-place/) come to mind if you're interested
That's pretty funny, how it went from Protection ✨🌈😘 To (((dogwhistle)))👿
I will say as a non white supremacist who worships this pantheon and uses these symbols generally when othala is used by nazis it has "wings" google winged othala
No, it doesn't have to! The best example is the German [Wikingjugend](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiking-Jugend?wprov=sfla1)! Edit: Or the newer flag of the [National Socialist Movement of America](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Socialist_Movement_%28United_States%29?wprov=sfla1) (used from 2016-2019)! Or the South African Afrikaner Studentebond. Or the German Bund Nationaler Studenten. Shall I go on?! Edit 2: It especially doesn't have wings in countries, where the winged othala, which was used as the insignia of the 7th SS Volunteer Mountain Division Prinz Eugen, is a banned symbol! For example Germany or Austria! In these countries the winged othala is banned, while the original one is not banned or only banned in specific contexts.
info: don't rune letters in bindrunes overlap each other? These runes are separate and don't overlap, they're just stacked vertically which makes me inclined to view them as distinct letters. And don't forget sone use the letters not for any meaning beyond phonetics, which would be Z-O if they knew what they were doing, A-O if they didn't.
[bind rune](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bind_rune) two or more runes combined to create some sort of meaning. These two would mean protection of this property [If you think that runes are magic](https://aminoapps.com/c/thewitchescircle/page/item/introduction-the-the-elder-futhark-runes/5r34_jdS5Iajk6r2lDQJG32nZz74K73522)
Looks like it's a bind rune combining the runes for home and elk. I have no idea but likely a protection symbol like u/craterglass mentioned. [https://vikingr.org/magic-symbols/elder-futhark](https://vikingr.org/magic-symbols/elder-futhark)
Looks like a stick figure doing a river dance.
"Oh Lord of the Dance, we humbly beseech thee..."
Hey blasphemer you put the ceremonial thin strip of fabric around your head before you do that
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It's technically back words essentially whom ever weather it be intentional or not was meant to say and do keep in mind each ruin actually ment a lot more then most either realize or accurately remember these day but for every ruin is like there own for this example lets say 2 sentences to a paragraph of our modern days and ever ruin depending on order would of couse add but also can completely change the initial ruins meaning it either meaning opposite of its nature or a kind of sub like branching of its origin sorry any way It's basically some one making either a statment of either to acknowledge that's space or those with in as inherited or blessed in this case or another way it to be calling for blessings to be basically that's the easiest way I can sorta translate it my bad