The Rune Ingwaz / Inguz / Ingwuz

INGWUZ - Fertility, New Beginning, The God-Hero

It is the completion of the initiation that Inguz needs. It may indicate a time of joyful liberation, a new life, a new way. As a rune of great power it means that you have the strength to reach you completion, the solution from which there is a new beginning. The completion, the finish/finalization is most important. This Rune indicates that you have to fertilize the soil for your own liberation. Everything is changing, and we cannot live constantly in the midst of obstacles.
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Pronunciation: "eeeng-wawz"

Tarot Correspondence: Emperor Card

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Fertility god

Ing was a god of the Danes. The Old English word lngwine
means friends of Ing, and is applied to the Danes in Beowolf -
Tacitus mentions a tribe living near the Baltic sea called the
lngaeaanes. The Old English Rune Poem reads:
Ing among the East-Danes was first
beheld by men, until that later time when to the east
he made his departure over the waves, followed by
his chariot
that was the name those stem warriors gave the hero.
The god Frey, who was the Teutonic male fertility deity, is
said to have had another name, Yngai. His descendants were
called Ynglingar. Since Frey was the son of Nerthus, the earth
mother, and traveled in a chariot,Ing is supposed to have been a
fertility god but this is only supposition. The old English Rune
Poem describes him as a hero.
It is interesting that his departure across the seas to the east
is said to be in front of his chariot. one would assume that the would
ride inside it. Perhaps he was the invisible traveler in a physical
model of the sacred car, like Nerthus. Something may have caused
him to remove himself across the sea-the coming of Christian-
ity?-and his sacred chariot may have been shipped after him.
When Ing is viewed paired with [^agu, it should be noted
that the god crosses the water. The crossing of water was a com-
mon euphemism for the passage into the underworld. Ing is a
god who has gone away,like the great heroes whose bodies
were pushed into the sea after their departed souls on burning
warships. The chariot of lng which follows aftcr lrirn is the life-
Meanings of the Runes / 67
less, hollow vessel of the god.
Ing may have been a god of the heart tu a protector of the
family and house, an insurer of good catches of fish and good
crops. He would represent the healthy and productive side of
sexuality. l,agu is the power and influence of waters-Ing the
power and influence of the earth.
Magically, the rune can be used to overcome illusions and
mental illness. It serves as a help in practical day-to-day prob-
lems but should not be underrated on that account. Ing is a
powerful force for good. It protects the home and those within
it. Calms domestic strife. Unites families with bonds of affection.
A down-to-earth deity embodying the simple but precious
human virtues that lie close to the land.

lngwaz is considered to be the name of an old Germanic earth god,
who works in tandem with the earth mother, Nerthus. Their cult
was most developed in ancient times in the North Sea regions. The
Old English Rune Poem tells us
Ing was at first
among the East-Danes
seen by men,
until he went eastward
over the wave,
his wain rolled after him:
thus the Heardings
named the hero.
The wagon or chariot mentioned is the same used in the Nerthus
cult. lngwaz represents the male consort of the earth mother, and the
priest who attends her. So strong was this cult among the peoples of
the North Sea that they were often referred to as Ingvaeones (those
of Ing).
The Vanic god Freyr also was known as Yngvi, and he too took
part in fertility rites in which he rode in a wagon in ritual
processions. Freyr seems generally to have usurped the role and the
name of Ing in the North.

land and people. Here there are strong overtones of a Cybele-Attis
type of cult. The myth of Freyr giving up his sword to gain Gerdhr or
the Odhinic name Gelding (castrated horse), may be illustrative
here. The male element represents the self-replenishing "cosmic
food" of potential energy, which is held through winter by the
goddess to be suddenly and violently released again in spring during
the orgiastic processional ritual.
The NG-rune is a storehouse of potential energy that must
undergo a gestation period in order to gain in strength. This is a
principle that works on all levels of the multiverse, and it is a mighty
rune of magic, for all power must undergo such a protected gestation
period before it may be manifested in its most potent form.
One of the great secrets of Nordic sex magic is embodied in this
rune.

Key Words:
Potential energy
Gestation

Rune Yoga:
1. Stand straight with fingertips touching

well overhead and elbows angled in the form

of the stave.

2. Stand erect with fingertips touching just

above the genitals with elbows forming the

angles of the NG-rune

Blessed Bee,
Aphrodite Calling