BERKANO sterling silver rune pendant

HAND CARVED STERLING SILVER (OXIDIZED) BERKANO RUNE PENDANT

An ancient alphabetic scripts, each of whose letters possessed a meaningful name as well as a signifying sound, Runes were employed for legal documents, for writing poetry, for inscriptions and divination. The art of the Runes dates back to Viking times and is used to form a bridge between our logical mind and our unconscious. The Runes embody the greatest and the smallest secrets of nature and they are the keys to those secrets – for they are indeed the secrets themselves.

- MATERIAL: sterling silver

- FINISH: oxidized

- Hand carved

- Length: ca. 6 cm (2.36 in) or 4 cm (1.6 in)

- AVAILABLE WITH OR WITHOUT SILVER CHAIN!!! A 50 cm (19.7 in) oxidized silver chain is available as option.

- Shipping within 2-5 business days

The hand formed symbol has been highly textured then darkened and buffed to add to its dark and rustic look.

This rune is historically perhaps the most complex of all from a symbological perspective. A unified ideological complex does rise to the surface once its secrets are penetrated.

The B-rune contains the complex mystery of the great mother. In its cosmological aspect it is the mother of all manifestation and embodies the mysteries of cosmic and human birth and rebirth.

Berkano rules over the four pivotal human "rites of passage", which take place at the crucial times of birth, adolescence, marriage and death. This birch goddess also displays the darker side of the "Terrible Mother", ruling over death. In Norse mythology she is represented by Hel. In the Germania, chapter 40, Tacitus reports on the goddess Nerthus as the earth mother. In this cult, the goddess is attended by a priest and she is drawn throughout the territory in her chariot, spreading her blessings of peace and fertility. When the procession is at an end, Nerthus receives human sacrifice in order to replenish her spent power.

The B-rune is the container of all becoming/being. It is the unity of the birth-life-death-rebirth cycle through the "mystery of the moment". This is the "unit of evolution", that moment of "being" (a single complete cycle of arising-being/becoming-passing-away to new arising) from which "becoming" is built. The phenomenon of chance in nature is described by this rune, because each moment each of these units of existence has its own uniqueness, although they are all held together by a universal pattern.

Magical workings of Berkano rune:
1. Rebirth in the spirit.
2. Strengthens the power of secrecy.
3. Works of concealment and protection.
4. To contain and hold other powers together.
S. Realization of the oneness of the moment as the mother of all
things.
6. Bringing ideas to fruition in the creative process.

Darkwood Jewelry is inspired by magic, nature, the mysterious aspects of history, traditional handcrafts and the esoteric.

Every Darkwood item is carefully hand-crafted and therefore unique.

Please note that due to its handmade nature, your personal piece might slightly differ from the one showed on the product page. We hope that you enjoy these individualized differences in your piece, made with passion by human hands.

Please don't forget to remove your jewelries before swimming, chemicals or salty water will damage them. It is also advised to remove them before going to sleep to avoid bendings and breakings.

All the pieces are shipped from Warsaw, Poland. All packages are shipped with registered priority mail (a registered letter or a parcel), which includes tracking (some countries no longer offer tracking for registered mail).