Judith Dillon
Author and researcher specializing in the history of alphabets, runes, and mystery traditions. Her recent book "Futhark Rune Mysteries" traces the origins of Norse runes back to ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs and Phoenician alphabets.
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Jun 5, 2026
Judith DillonGUEST
you.Well, the runes from the earliest have always been divided into eight fa- it, it means eight, it also means family.
Judith DillonGUEST
So there's three families, and the first family is ruled by Frey, who's the god of life, um, keeping the world healthy, keeping the crops growing.
Judith DillonGUEST
And then you get to the ninth rune, which is the goddess who's in charge of the ninth rune is Hel.
Judith DillonGUEST
And Hel, in the sagas, has become this really horrible, piebald, rotting figure.
Judith DillonGUEST
But I, but she also, I think, was, had an older, um, incarnation, older avatar, because she's the one who welcomes the unborn, anybody who's not been baptized.
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