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<blockquote data-quote="kronovan" data-source="post: 9288479" data-attributes="member: 6775134"><p>I'm glad you made that retraction. Not to derail the main topic too much, but I'm confident that 88↑ is actually a reference to the 17th rune in the Elder Furthark rune system known as Týr. It does indeed have the symbol form of "↑" and represented a god with that name. The Elder Furthark is comprised of 3 rows of 8 runes and Týr begins the final row; hence 88↑. I'm not aware of anything that ties the 17th Týr rune to NAZIsm, as the NAZIs used an alternate, pseudo-historical rune system known as the Armanen and within its ordering Tyr is 12th. Týr is present in <u>A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary</u> under the more common Old English form Tir, and was synonymous with such concepts as fame, glory and honor. The God Týr partly survived posterity, as he's the origin of our day of the week Tuesday.</p><p></p><p>As to why a women of color might have created it and symbolized it that way...the preceding 2 rows of Elder Furthark contain runes such as Gebo (gift), Wunjo (joy), Naudiz (need), Jera (good year, harvest) and Sowilo (sun). So perhaps she was inspired by the concepts embodied by those to represent the entire preceding rows with numbers. Or maybe she was born on the 17th in a month for which that date falls on a Tuesday. The God Týr was also a heroic figure - he sacrificed his hand by placing it in the jaws of the monstrous Fenrir wolf, so that he could distract the dangerous beast and shackle it.</p><p></p><p>I wasn't aware of a music company named 88 Rising using it, but I'm curious if they're aware of its runic significance. As to any contemporary supremist groups using it, I wouldn't be surprised because IME such groups will ignorantly grasp and misrepresent or misconstrue just about any symbol with Germanic orgins. And from what I've seen, they typically do it with ridiculous applications and interpretations.</p><p></p><p>Anyhow...back to the main topic. I wasn't aware of RASCAL, but I'm curious enough to give it a try for a month.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="kronovan, post: 9288479, member: 6775134"] I'm glad you made that retraction. Not to derail the main topic too much, but I'm confident that 88↑ is actually a reference to the 17th rune in the Elder Furthark rune system known as Týr. It does indeed have the symbol form of "↑" and represented a god with that name. The Elder Furthark is comprised of 3 rows of 8 runes and Týr begins the final row; hence 88↑. I'm not aware of anything that ties the 17th Týr rune to NAZIsm, as the NAZIs used an alternate, pseudo-historical rune system known as the Armanen and within its ordering Tyr is 12th. Týr is present in [U]A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary[/U] under the more common Old English form Tir, and was synonymous with such concepts as fame, glory and honor. The God Týr partly survived posterity, as he's the origin of our day of the week Tuesday. As to why a women of color might have created it and symbolized it that way...the preceding 2 rows of Elder Furthark contain runes such as Gebo (gift), Wunjo (joy), Naudiz (need), Jera (good year, harvest) and Sowilo (sun). So perhaps she was inspired by the concepts embodied by those to represent the entire preceding rows with numbers. Or maybe she was born on the 17th in a month for which that date falls on a Tuesday. The God Týr was also a heroic figure - he sacrificed his hand by placing it in the jaws of the monstrous Fenrir wolf, so that he could distract the dangerous beast and shackle it. I wasn't aware of a music company named 88 Rising using it, but I'm curious if they're aware of its runic significance. As to any contemporary supremist groups using it, I wouldn't be surprised because IME such groups will ignorantly grasp and misrepresent or misconstrue just about any symbol with Germanic orgins. And from what I've seen, they typically do it with ridiculous applications and interpretations. Anyhow...back to the main topic. I wasn't aware of RASCAL, but I'm curious enough to give it a try for a month. [/QUOTE]
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