It’s worth noting that in many Indo-European religions, the chief god retains an association with magic, but especially divination; which is one application of seiðr. Lugh, Jupiter and Zeus all retain an association with divination, and stanza 79 of the Hávamál mentions asking the runes.
Seiðr would undoubtedly have been considered ergi because it would allow one to indirectly harm an opponent; acceptable for a woman who was at a physical disadvantage, but cowardly for a man, who would be expected to be direct in conflict.
In his book Children of Ash and Elm, woke academic Neil Price claims seiðr staffs represented a phallus, despite the fact most examples don’t look even remotely phallic, and priests and shamans in many other cultures, related and unrelated, use staffs of their own, often representing the axis mundi. For this theory, he cites “some scholars” without naming any. It has no basis in the sources or archaeology.
It’s worth noting that in many Indo-European religions, the chief god retains an association with magic, but especially divination; which is one application of seiðr. Lugh, Jupiter and Zeus all retain an association with divination, and stanza 79 of the Hávamál mentions asking the runes.
Seiðr would undoubtedly have been considered ergi because it would allow one to indirectly harm an opponent; acceptable for a woman who was at a physical disadvantage, but cowardly for a man, who would be expected to be direct in conflict.
In his book Children of Ash and Elm, woke academic Neil Price claims seiðr staffs represented a phallus, despite the fact most examples don’t look even remotely phallic, and priests and shamans in many other cultures, related and unrelated, use staffs of their own, often representing the axis mundi. For this theory, he cites “some scholars” without naming any. It has no basis in the sources or archaeology.
False news often spreads via public groups, or chats, with potentially fatal effects. At its heart, Telegram is little more than a messaging app like WhatsApp or Signal. But it also offers open channels that enable a single user, or a group of users, to communicate with large numbers in a method similar to a Twitter account. This has proven to be both a blessing and a curse for Telegram and its users, since these channels can be used for both good and ill. Right now, as Wired reports, the app is a key way for Ukrainians to receive updates from the government during the invasion. That hurt tech stocks. For the past few weeks, the 10-year yield has traded between 1.72% and 2%, as traders moved into the bond for safety when Russia headlines were ugly—and out of it when headlines improved. Now, the yield is touching its pandemic-era high. If the yield breaks above that level, that could signal that it’s on a sustainable path higher. Higher long-dated bond yields make future profits less valuable—and many tech companies are valued on the basis of profits forecast for many years in the future. Groups are also not fully encrypted, end-to-end. This includes private groups. Private groups cannot be seen by other Telegram users, but Telegram itself can see the groups and all of the communications that you have in them. All of the same risks and warnings about channels can be applied to groups. The original Telegram channel has expanded into a web of accounts for different locations, including specific pages made for individual Russian cities. There's also an English-language website, which states it is owned by the people who run the Telegram channels.
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