Rune Stone Set of 25 w Pouch /Amethyst/Elder Futhark Start Price USD 19.99 Current Price USD 19.99 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price USD 29.99 Reserve Price - Start Time Friday, October 03, 2008 End Time Friday, October 10, 2008 Location Irving, Texas See more about 'Rune Stone Set of 25 w Pouch /Amethyst/Elder Futhark' Description Beautiful Carved Amethyst Elder Futhark Rune Set (24 Runes + 1 Blank) with Zippered Velveteen Carrying Bag   The Runes are carved on medium sized (approx 1 inch diameter) tumbled Amethyst stones and come with a sturdy zippered carying case.   This is an awesome set of Rune Stones   Amethyst  (The Crystal Bible by Judy Hall) Color Purple to lavender Appearance Transparent, pointed crystals. May be geode, cluster. or single point. All sizes Rarity One of the most common crystals Source United States, Britain, canada, Brazil, Mexico, Russia, Sri Lanka, Uraguay, East Africa, Siberia, India Attributes Amethyst is an extremely powerful and protective stone with a high spiritual vibration. It guards against psychic attack, transuting the energy into love. A natural tranquilizer, Amethyst blocks geopathic stress and negative environment energies. Its serenity enhances higher states of consciousness and meditation. Amethyst has strong healing and cleansing powers, and enhances spiritual awareness. Traditionally, it was worn to prevent drunkenness and has a sobering effect on overindulgence and physical passions, supporting sobriety. It overcomes addictions and blockages of all kinds. Used at a higher level, Amethyst opens to another reality. Amethyst is extremely beneficial to the mind, calming or stimulating as appropriate. When you mediate, it turns thoughts away from the mundane into tranquility and deeper understanding. Mentally, it helps youo feel less scattered, more focused and in control of your faculties. It enhances the assimilation of new ideas and connects cause with effect. This stone facilitates the decision-making process, bringing in common sense and spiritual insights, and putting decisions and insights into practice. Mentally, it calms and synthesizes, and aids the transmissions of neural signals through the brain. It is helpful where insomnia is caused by an overactive mind and protects against recurrent nightmares. Amethyst enhances memory and improves motivation, making you more able to set realistic goals. It can help you to remember and understand dreams and facilitates the visualization process. Amethysts balances out highs and lows, promoting emotional centering. It dispels anger, rage, fear, and anxiety. Alleviating saness and grief, it supports coming to terms with loss. Amethyst is one of the most spiritual stones, promoting love of the divine, giving insights into its true nature, and encouraging selflessness and spiritual wisdom. It opens intuition and enhances psychic gifts. This is an excellent stone for mediation and scrying and can be placed on the third eye to stimulate it. Sleeping with Amethyst facilitate out-of-body experiences and brings intuitive dreams. It transmutes "lower" energies to the higher frequencies of the spiritual and etheric realms. Healing Amethyst boosts the production of hormones, and tunes the endocrine system and metabolism. It strengthens the cleansing and eliminating organs and the immune system. An excellent cleanser for the blood, Amethyst relieves physical, emotional, and psychological pain or stress, and blocks geopathic stress. It eases headaches and releases tension. This stone reduces bruising, injuries, and swellings, and treats hearing disorders. It heals dis-eases of the lungs and respiratory tract, skin conditions, cellular disorders, and dis-eases of the digestive tract. It is beneficial for the intestines, regulating flora, removing parasites, and encouraging reabsorption of water. Amethyst treats insomnia and brings restful sleep. At a subtle level, Amethyst balances and connects the physical, mental, and emotional bodies, linking them to the spiritual. It cleanses the aura and transmutes negative energy, and stimulates the throat and crown chakras. It is helpful for people about to make the transition through death. Amethys can stabilize psychiatric conditions but should not be used in cases of paranoia or schizophrenia. Position Wear or place as appropriate, especially as jewelry. Clusters and geodes can be placed in the environment and single points are used in healing. Place the point in toward you to draw in energy, and away from you to draw off energy. Amethyst is especially beneficial worn over the throat or heart. For insomnia or nightmarees, places under the pillow. Amethyst fades in sunlight. Specific Colors In addition to the generic properites, the following colors and forms have additional properties: Violet-Lavender Amethyst has a particulary high vibration. Double-terminated lilac crystals take you into beta brain waves. They also stimulate and then calm the throat and heart chakras. Violet "flowers" bring light and love into the environment. Chevron Amethyst is one of the best third-eye stimulators. It enhances inner, intuitive vision and outer, physical vision, and out-of-body journeys. It has powerfully focused energy that dissipates and repels negativity. This stone cleanses the aura and aids in auric diagnosis. It has a strong healing field, bringing harmony to the organs of the body and stimulating the immune system. It helps you to find and implement a positive answer to any problem. Pineapple Amethyst has small nodules covering the sides above which emerge the termination points. Looking like the turrets of a castle in a fairytale, it facilitattes contact with the mythic and fairytale realms and stimulates the imagination. It is a powerful archetypal healer for family and collective myths. What are the Runes? The runes are a pictorial alphabetic script which came into use in Europe somewhere around 500 BCE. Their precise origins are uncertain, possibly having been influenced by the Hallristningar, prehistoric rock carvings found in northern Europe. Generally however it is believed the runes are derived from the North Italic alphabet and there is some archaeological evidence to support this. That there should be some doubt about the early history of the runes is strangely appropriate since their name is derived from the word runa meaning secret or mystery. This accurately reflect their mystical nature since the runes are far from an ordinary alphabet. According to the mythology they were discovered by the Norse god Odin, to whom they remain sacred, and hence may be used for magickal or divinatory purposes. Their first incarnation was as the Elder Futhark, a 24 character script, which takes its name from the (sounds of) its first letters, ie F-U-TH-A-R-K. Over the years there were a number of variations on the script such as the 33 character Saxon Futhork and the 16 rune Norse Younger Futhark. A 20th century set of runes was created by Guido Von List after he saw them in a vision. These are the Armanen runes which influenced the NAZIs. It has been suggested that the simple runic designs tap into something deep in the human unconscious for though few people today are aware of the runes, these characters are still to be found in appropriate contexts though the reason why particular shapes were chosen often has little or nothing to do with the runes. For example the international peace/nuclear disarmament symbol is reminiscent of an inverted Eohl rune suggesting vulnerability. The Scottish National Party (SNP) has a logo very like the Ethel rune which represents clan and homeland. All modern runic practice is a rediscovery, even that based on traditional oral traditions or written sources. Though there is some literary material which refers to the runes, even these descriptions require an element of interpretation. After a fallow period, interest in the runes is again growing, largely due to New Agers who have seized upon the divinatory and magickal quality of the runes. This does cause tensions with many traditionalists who accuse them (sometimes rightly) of poor scholarship and misunderstanding the runes. However the runes have evolved over the generations and each new society or age has modified them according to their beliefs and needs. It is thus right they should continue their development in the new Millenium.   What ... Is the Elder Futhark? This is the oldest true runic alphabet, a 24 character script, which takes its name from the (sounds of) its first letters, ie F-U-TH-A-R-K. It was in use in Northern Europe between approximately 200 BCE and 800 CE. It is the Elder Futhark which most people mean when they refer to the runes. What is Someone Who Uses Runes Called? There are many titles associated with rune use. The one for someone who is a true expert, with a deep understanding of all aspects of the runes is "runemaster" or "runemeister". Such a title has to be truly earned though and you should beware of anyone who readily claims it for themselves. For someone whose runic practice is limited to divination, the terms "runecaster" or "rune reader" are quite acceptable. A runic magician is normally known as a "vitki" from an Old Norse word. You may also encounter the term "erilaz" (plural "eriloz"), another Old Norse word meaning "runemaster" which Thorsson indicates should be used of a vitki who is also a priest. The term "runester" is considered a good general term to use for anyone who uses the runes. It is based on an Old Norse word and does not imply ability level or area of practice so is a neutral title. Grimnisson uses "runer" which is presumably from the same root. Finally R. I. Page talks of "runologists" but this should probably be reserved for those pursuing the academic study of the runes as a form of writing. How Many Runes are There? Like many questions involving the runes this is more complex than it may seem. Generally when we refer to "the runes" on this site we will mean the Elder Futhark, an ancient Northern alphabet which consisted of 24 runes. This is the set most widely used for divination today. However many modern sets include the controversial Blank Rune which brings the number to 25. Historically however the runes have varied between 16 and 33 with different societies having different needs and therefore adapting the runes as they saw fit. Some authors even write of runes which are not used in divination but which are used for magic, increasing the number to a fifth rune row and about 40 What Are the Names of the Runes? There is no straightforward answer to this question since the runes had different names depending on where and when they were used. Equally modern authors show little consistency sometimes taking names from one or more of the naming system mixing up names in different languages. At the Rune School site and the runes-divination egroup we encourage a dual naming system so each time a rune is given it is described using both the Germanic and Old English (Anglo-Saxon) names. These are shown in the table below Germanic Old English Other Names Fehu Feoh Faihu, Fe Uruz Ur Urus Thurisaz Thorn Thiuth, Thurs Ansuz Os Asa, Ansur, Ansus Raidho Rad Raidha, Raido Kenaz Cen Kaun, Kano, Kaunaz, Kusma Gebo Gyfu Giba, Gipt Wunjo Wynn Winja Hagalaz Haegl Hagall, Hagl Naudhiz Nyd Nuaths, Nauthiz Isa Is Eis, Iss Jera Ger Jer Eihwaz Eoh Eihwas, Iwaz Pertho Peorth Pairthra Algiz Eohl Elhaz, Algis Sowilo Sigil Saugil, Sol, Sowelo Tiwaz Tir Tyr, Teiws, Teiwaz Berkana Beorc Berkano, Bairkan Ehwaz Eh Ehwo Mannaz Man Manna Laguz Lagu Lagus, Logr Ingwaz Ing Enguz, Inguz Dagaz Daeg Dags, Dag Othala Ethel Othila, Odhal, Othal, Odel   Why Are There So Many Rune Names? Given that there are only 24 runes (in the Elder Futhark), it seems natural to ask why there is such a proliferation of rune names. Since no two books on the runes seem to use the same set of names, this is one thing that newcomers to the runes often find most confusing. Had the usage of the runes been confined to a single country or region, there would not be such a multitude of rune names to cope with. The runes were however enormously popular and were in use throughout much of Northern Europe. Each society which embraced them gave them names in their local language. So the same rune could be Laguz in German, Logr in Old Icelandic (Norse) and Lagu in Old English (Anglo-Saxon) for example. Each of these names (and more!) is historically accurate and equally valid. In addition it has to be recognised that there are transcription problems posed by rune names because these sometimes use characters which are not available to us today. A good example is Raiðo (the R-rune) which includes the "ð" character which is no longer in use but is usually rendered as a "d" in Modern English though it has a "th" sound. Hence there is considerable latitude in how this name is represented in Modern English - raido, raidho, raitho etc. Since the sound of runes is highly significant, what appears to be different rune names may in fact be merely varying ways to attempt to produce the same sound, such as Sowelu and Sowelo, for example. Many modern authors on the runes have little or no understanding of the historical developments that led to the different names and so sometimes use combination of rune names in different languages that historically never co-existed. So you might have a Futhark beginning with Feoh (Old-English), Uruz (Germanic), Thurisaz (Germanic), Ass (Norse), Raidho (Germanic), Cen (Old-English), for example, and there are too many books which jumble the rune names in this way. This kind of mix-and-match approach to rune names leads to the impression that there are more rune name varations than there are. Moreover, in a few extreme cases, less-reputable authors have been known to simply invent rune names adding further to the confusion. Powered by eBay Turbo ListerThe free listing tool. List your items fast and easy and manage your active items. Place a Bid!