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  • Cosmology

    24Oct25 | 13.30 CDT
    © 2025

    michael raven

    c: 251024.1330

    I won’t go too deep down the rabbit hole here, but I’ve made it no secret that I have an interest in what I call “The Old Ways”. While no one knows for certain what practices existed in the neolithic, preagricultural period of history, I think there are some things that appear to be universal when observing or investigating nomadic peoples closer to the modern age and we can draw some conclusions based on that in conjunction with what we can tease out about a few thousand years back.

    The records of what was written contemporaneously or kept alive through oral tradition, however biased those records might be, sometimes point to a past that existed before those events were recorded.

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    tagged:

    cosmology, old irish, old ways, playing around

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    thinking

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  • casting runes — 24oct25

    24Oct25 | 10.14 CDT
    © 2025

    michael raven

    c: 251024.1014
    fehu
    fox fire, raven coal
    first flurries pale
    i offer crimson now
    to keep all relations, mine
    both safe and hale

    A poem prompted by a randomly selected Elder Futhark rune.

    Today’s rune is fehu, which has a core meaning of “cattle” or a more generalized “livestock”, which was a representation of personal wealth or earned prosperity. Sometimes luck played a role. Wealth and prosperity was valued, but was looked down upon when material accumulation appeared to be excessive, greedy, miserly or turned to hoarding, especially when those around you were lacking.

    Please visit my Elder Futhark pages at sceadugenga.com for additional interpretations of the runes based on multiple references and personal reflection.


    tagged:

    fehu, poetry, rewilding, rune

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    poetry

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  • rings

    24Oct25 | 07.46 CDT
    © 2025

    michael raven

    c: 251024.0746
    Photo by Nathan Dumlao on Unsplash
    drained, i pour inside
    to sit within my pain
    —don't speak
    everything runs over
    and i cannot drink
    another drop

    instead, arthritic fingers chase
    wet rings on the hard

    tagged:

    poetry

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    poetry

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  • wilderness

    23Oct25 | 13.39 CDT
    © 2025

    michael raven

    c: 251023.1339
    come the sluagh nights soonly
    come they baying at your door
    sickle scythe under nightmoon
    a'reaving long before the dawn

    tagged:

    betwixt and between, poetry

    filed under:

    poetry

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  • Reads — “Flood” by Stephen Baxter

    23Oct25 | 09.07 CDT
    © 2025

    michael raven

    c: 251023.0907

    I’m in the home stretch on this hard science-fiction novel of the peri-apocalypse and I think the biggest takeaway so far is…

    I’m not the target audience for science-fiction novels of the peri-apocalypse, hard science or otherwise.

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    reading

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    reading

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    Reads — “Flood” by Stephen Baxter

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