| Plant | Tree | Runic Number | Color |
Elements |
Phonetic |
Associated Myths and Deities |
Gemstone |
| Aconite | 17 |
Bright Red |
T |
Coral |
Pronunciation | tea-wawz
Zodiac Sign: |
Healing: | To heal a wounds, Calm someone down, Give someone a strong will.
Magical Uses: | protection, victory, strength, strengthening the will, healing a wound.
Divinitory Meanings: duty, discipline, responsibility, self-sacrifice, conflict, strength, a wound, physicality, the warrior path
Upright :
Reversed : : Analysis : Teiwaz, represents a voluntary sacrifice, made by someone who understands exactly what they are giving up and why. Tyr's sacrifice of his hand to allow the binding of the Fenris Wolf was a noble one, and notable in a pantheon of deities not known for their sense of duty and ethical responsibility. He is believed to be one of the oldest of the Norse Gods - a Bronze-age rock carving was found in Scandinavia depicting a one-handed warrior - and his position may well have originally superseded that of Odin. Tyr's rune is also one of the oldest in the fuşark, having survived virtually unchanged from the earliest Bronze-age carvings. It represents all those qualities associated with the God: strength, heroism, duty and responsibility. But it also represents a deeper mystery - that of the wounded God. Like şurisaz, the pain of teiwaz focuses the attention and forces discipline. However, in this case the effect is more conscious and the wound carries a greater significance. Uruz has been confronted and bound, and the lessons of teiwaz and hagalaz have been learned. This is the path of the warrior.
The Rune Poem: Verse XVII Tiwaz
Tiw is a certain sign; it keeps trust well
With Aethlings; ever on course
Over the night-fogs,
It never falls.
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