LAGUZ sterling silver rune pendant

HAND CARVED .925 SILVER (OXIDIZED) LAGUZ 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.

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.

Laguz is the basic life energy in the multiverse and the secret source of all organic life. Laguz is the law of life, throughout all the multiverse as well as in Midhgardhr. These are the layers (laws) of past cosmic and human action that govern the future development of life forms.

The L-rune represents the primal waters in Niflheimr that contain the latent, amorphous potential of life, which must be solidified as ice and energized by the fire of Muspellsheimr before the potential can be actualized in manifested pattern. This is a potent rune of initiation-especially the initiation into life. In heathen times a newborn child was sprinkled with water and given its name, after it had shown itself worthy of life. This
reintegrated the child into the life force of its clan. The mystery of vatni ausa (the ritual of sprinkling with water) predates Christian influence and is a feature of the ancient Nordic doctrine of rebirth - aptrburdhr.

Laguz also includes the watery rite of passage at the end of lifethe crossing of the primeval waters to the realm of the dead. The myths of Odhinn as the ferryman of the souls are important in this regard. The ship burials of the Vikings and the symbolic water crossing indicated by them also are illustrative of this belief.

The form laukaz also means "leek," which is expressed in the Old Norse rune name laukr. This is a symbol of organic growth, phallic power (virtue) and fertility in the physical as well as spiritual realms.

The L-rune rules over the lore of herbal magic, known in Old Norse as lyf and in Old English as lac-nunga. The itrlaukr (shining leek) was often given to a young man once he had proved himself as a warrior.

Magical workings of the Laguz rune:
1. Guidance through difficult initiatory tests.
2. Increase in vitality and life force .
3. Gathering of amorphous magical power for formation and
structuring by the will.
4. Increase in "magnetism".
5. Development of "second sight".

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).