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Alu (Runic)
- devmunchies 6y agoI’ve read 3 books on the runes over the last couple of years. I find them interesting—I like symbolism. That being said, what’s the significance of Alu? Why is it posted here? Generally Curious.
- T-A 6y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arithmetic_logic_unit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arithmetic_logic_unit Hackers these days... :P
- anonymous_i 6y agoIt is very unfair to not say the names of those books.:-)
- devmunchies 6y agoRunelore and Futhark, both by thorsson. Other being “runes and the origins of writing” by benoist.
- prox 6y agoSometimes we get posts that just tickle the curiousity. I like that. I think trying to find the meaning of Alu through etymology alone is strenuous. I’ve studied rituals from India, especially the timeline from Vedic to medieval times. The ritual is usually passed down through priests or in some lineages through gurus. If they die, a lot of the culture and knowledge dies with it. If you read the Vedas and then you see a vedic ritual, you just know how much difference there is between the dry words and the actions that infuse and inspire. That said, Alu might be something along the lines of Soma, which in Vedic ritual is an intoxicating beverage to meet the gods.
- Fjolsvith 6y agoWould recommend the book "Runelore" by Edred Thorsson (he has many on runic technology).
- devmunchies 6y agoFunny yeah that one and Futhark (also by thorsson) are 2 of the 3 rune books I’ve read.
- Fjolsvith 6y agoThorsson has a new one titled: "ALU, An Advanced Guide to Operative Runology" https://www.amazon.com/ALU-Advanced-Guide-Operative-Runology/dp/1578635268 https://www.amazon.com/ALU-Advanced-Guide-Operative-Runology...
- teunispeters 6y agoNo. Go to reliable sources, not people who are known for con artistry. There's no shortage of good sources around these days. For instance someone who doesn't arbitrarily invent things to make them sound good, try https://jacksonwcrawford.com/list-of-videos/ https://jacksonwcrawford.com/list-of-videos/ Or if you want more entry level information or written, exploring wikipedia is fine.
- Fjolsvith 6y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Flowers https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Flowers I wasn't able to find any sources of his "con artistry".
- ponker 6y agoNot getting what this article is trying to say. So alu is a word for some ineffable charm? Like “mojo”?
- 082349872349872 6y agoMaybe the runic equivalent to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilroy_was_here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilroy_was_here , or sprinkling whatever has taken over from ML liberally through a business plan? ᚫᛚᚢ ᚱᚫᛗ ᚱᛟᛗ ᛋᛈᚢ
- ncmncm 6y agoI recently learned that runes are a semitic script, akin to Phoenician and Hebrew. A bunch of hebraic words came into Scandinavian words along with them. History gets stranger the more you learn.
- genocidicbunny 6y agoDo you by chance have any related links? I'd love to find out more about this.
- ncmncm 6y agoI searched "phoenician runes" and interesting PDFs surfaced. I think I found out originally from a National Geographic article.
- jdmichal 6y agoI mean, they're descended from Phoenician. But they descended through the Greek branch, same as the Latin alphabet. And I don't think anyone would call Latin a Semitic script.
- ncmncm 6y agoNo, it is direct: Phoenicians traveled from outposts in Iberia deep into northern Europe, and left direct cultural traces, such as runes. This is easily seen by comparing runes to their cognates in Latin, Greek, and Phoenician alphabets. Unless you believe in spontaneous reversion to the earlier form, or influence from early Greeks in Scandinavia, we are seeing evidence of direct influence. We already knew Phoenicians were trading for tin in Cornwall and Wales in early Bronze Age, before 1800 BCE. Belgium and Denmark are quite nearby.
- jdmichal 6y agoI think you misread my comment. Note that I said the Greek branch, not directly from Greek. Phoenician had several branches, but the main ones were Aramaic and Greek. Those, of course, led to several current writing systems each. The leading theory is that Elder Futhark developed from an Old Italic script, or even an early form of Latin. To directly rebut, rather than appealing to authority: The oldest attestation of Elder Futhark currently at 160 CE. So your proposal has Phoenecian developing directly into Eldar Futhark 300 years after Phonecian was no longer attested. And even then, Phonecian use had been reduced to Carthage while having developed into other systems elsewhere. Note that Gothic origins were ruled out for a mere 100 year difference, so this seems like quite the gap to cover.
- jhoechtl 6y agoI think the takeaway of this article is that the english ale derives from germanic alu which also has the meaning "intoxicating beverage" as descibed in the WP-article.
- guiraldelli 6y agoI read the word “alu” in the title and thought, “is it a misspelling of ‘beer’ in Lithuanian? [1]” Well, I am not disappointed with the conclusion. :) [1]: https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/alus#Lithuanian https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/alus#Lithuanian
- devmunchies 6y agoI like learning these types of things. It’s like the “gebo” rune, which is just an “X”, is the rune for giving or gifting. It’s where X-mas comes from, the season of giving.
- hinoki 6y agoI thought it was because X is Chi, short for Christ? Wikipedia only mentions the Greek origin, do you have any references?