WODEN'S NINE HERBS CHARM from Lacnunga LXXIX-LXXXII

+ Gemyne ðu, mucgwyrt,     hwæt þu ameldodest,		Remember, Mugwort,      what you revealed,
hwæt þu renadest      æt regenmelde.		what you established     at the mighty proclamation
Una þu hattest,     yldost wyrta.		'Una' you are called,     oldest of herbs.
Ðu miht wið III     and wið XXX,		you may avail against 3     and against 30,
þu miht wiþ attre     and wið onflyge,	5	you may avail against poison     and against contagion,
þu miht wiþ þa{m} laþan     ðe geond lond færð.		you may avail against the loathsome one     who travels through the land.
Ond þu, wegbrade,     wyrta modor,		And, you, Waybread [Plantain],     mother of herbs,
eastan op{e}no,     innan mihtigu;		open to the east,     mighty within;
ofer ð{e} cræt{u} curran,     ofer ð{e} cwene reodan,		carts rolled over you,     women rode over you,
ofer ð{e} bryde bryodedon,     ofer ð{e} fearras fnærdon.	10	over you brides cried out,     bulls snorted over you.
Eallum þu þon wiðstonde     and wiðstunedest;		All you withstood then,     and were crushed;
swa ðu wiðstonde      attre and onflyge		So you withstand     poison and contagion
and þæm laðan     þe geond lond fereð.		and the loathsome one     who travels through the land.
Stune hætte þeos wyrt,     heo on stane geweox;		Cress [?] this herb is called,     it grew on a stone;
stond heo wið attre,     stunað heo wærce.	15	it stands against poison,     it attacks against pain.
Stiðe heo hatte,     wiðstunað heo attre,		Nettle [?] it is called,     it attacks against poison,
wreceð heo wraðan,     weorpeð ut attor.		it expels malignant things,     casts out poison.
+ Þis is seo wyrt     seo wiþ wyrm gefeaht,		This is the herb     that fought against the serpent,
þeos mæg wið attre,     heo mæg wið onflyge,		this avails against poison,     it avails against contagion,
heo mæg wið ða{m} laþan     ðe geond lond fereþ.	20	it avails against the loathsome one     who travels through the land.
Fleoh þu nu, attorlaðe,     seo læsse ða maran,		Now, you, Attorlothe [Betony?, Black Nightshade?], put to flight     the lesser the greater,
seo mare þa læssan,     oððæt him beigra bot sy.		the greater the lesser,     until the cure for both be with him.
Gemyne þu, mægðe,     hwæt þu ameldodest,		Remember, Chamomile,     what you revealed,
hwæt ðu geændadest     æt Alorforda;		what you brought to an end     at Alorford;
þæt næfre for gefloge     feorh ne gesealde	25	that never because of infection     should he give up his life
syþðan him mon mægðan     to mete gegyrede.		after Chamomile for him     was prepared for food.
Þis is seo wyrt     ðe wergulu hatte;		This is the herb     called Crab-Apple [?]
ðas onsænde seolh     ofer sæs hrygc		a seal sent this forth     across the sea's spine
ondan attres     oþres to bote.		for the harm of poison     of some other as a remedy.
Ðas VIIII {m}agon     wið nygon attrum.	30	These 9 have strength     against nine poison.
+ Wyrm com snican,     toslat he {m}an;		A worm came creeping,     he tore a man in two
ða genam Woden     VIIII wuldortanas,		then Woden took     9 Glory-Twigs,
sloh ða þa næddran,     þæt heo on VIIII tofleah.		struck the adder then,     that it flew apart into 9 (bits).
Þær geændade     æppel and attor,		There brought about     the apple and poison,
þæt heo næfre ne wolde     on hus bugan.	35	that she [the adder] would never     enter a house.
+ Fille and finule,     felamihtigu twa,		Chervil and Fennel,     two of much might,
þa wyrte gesceop     witig drihten,		these herbs shaped     the wise Lord,
halig on heofonum,     þa he hongode;		holy in the heavens,     when He hung;
sette and sænde     on VII worulde		He established (them) and sent (them)     into the 7 worlds,
earmum and eadigum     eallum to bote.	40	for the poor and the rich,     a remedy for all.
Stond heo wið wærce,     stunað heo wið attre,		it stands against pain,     it fights against poison,
seo mæg wið III     and wið XXX,		it avails against 3     and against 30,
wið hond     and wið freab{r}egde,		against foe's hand     and against noble scheming,
wið malscrunge     m{a}nra wihta.		against enchantment     of vile creatures.
+ Nu magon þas VIIII wyrta     wið nygon wuldorgeflogegum,	45	Now these 9 herbs have strength     against nine who have fled from glory,
wið VIIII attrum     and wið nygon onflygnum,		against 9 poisons     and against nine contagions,
wið ðy readan attre,     wið ð{y} ru{t}an attre,		against the red poison,     against the dark poison,
wið ðy hwitan attre,     wið ðy {hæwe}nan attre,		against the white poison,     against the pale blue poison,
wið ðy geolwan attre,     wið ðy grenan attre,		against the yellow poison,     against the green poison,
wið ðy wonnan attre,     wið ðy wedenan attre,	50	against the dusky poison,     against the dark blue poison,
wið ðy brunan attre,     wið ðy basewan attre,		against the brown poison,     against the purple poison,
wið wyrmgeblæd,     wið wætergeblæd,		against worm-blister,     against water-blister,
wið þorngeblæd,     wið þystelgeblæd,		against thorn-blister,     against thistle-blister,
wið ysgeblæd,     wið attorgeblæd,		against the ice-blister,     against the poison-blister,
gif ænig attor cume     eastan fleogan	55	if any poison comes     flying from the east,
oððe ænig norðan    cume		or any from the north     comes,
oððe ænig westan    ofer werðeode.		or any from the west     over the the tribe of men.
+ Crist stod ofer a{dl}e    ængan cundes.		Christ stood over sickness     of a cruel kind.
Ic ana wat    ea rinnende		I alone know     the running rivers
þær þa nygon nædran     behealdað;	60	there the nine adders     they enclose;
motan ealle weoda nu    wyrtum aspringan,		all weeds now must     spring up as herbs,
sæs toslupan,    eal sealt wæter,		the seas slip apart,     all salt water,
ðonne ic þis attor    of ðe geblawe.		while I this poison     blow from you.
Mucgcwyrt, wegbrade þe eastan open sy, lombescyrse, attorlaðan, mageðan, netelan, wudusuræppel, fille and finul, ealde sapan. Gewyrc ða wyrta to duste, mængc wiþ þa sapan and wiþ þæs æpples gor. Wyrc slypan of wætere and of axsan, genim finol, wyl on þære slyppan and beþe mid æggemongc, þonne he þa sealfe on do, ge ær ge æfter. Sing þæt galdor on æcre þara wyrta, III ær he hy wyrce and on þone æppel ealswa; ond singe þon men in þone muð and in þa earan buta and on ða wunde þæt ilce gealdor, ær he þa sealfe on do.		Mugwort, waybread [plantain] which has opened from the east, lamb's cress, attorlothe [betony?, black nightshade?], chamomile, nettle, wood sour apple, chervil and fennel, old soap; work the herbs into powder, mix with the soap and the apple's juice. Make a paste of water and of ash; take the fennel, boil in the paste and warm it with the mixture when he puts on the salve, and before and after. Sing that charm on each of the herbs thrice before he prepares them, and on the apple also, and sing into the mouth of the man and both the ears and on the wound that same charm before he puts on the salve.

https://www.heorot.dk/woden-9herbs.html

Karatani

Mode A is association, or rather the reciprocity of the gift. Mode B is brute force, or rule and protection. Mode C is commodity exchange.


http://www.publicseminar.org/2015/01/karatani/

in memoriam Eduardo Galeano /// thanks SW

1520: Brussels Durer

These things must be emanations from the sun, like the men and women who made them in the remote land they inhabit: helmets and girdles, feather fans, dresses, cloaks, hunting gear, a gold sun and a silver moon, a blowgun, and other weapons of such beauty that they seem made to revive their victims.
The greatest draftsman of all the ages does not tire of staring at them. This is part of the booty that Cortes seized from Moctezuma: the only pieces that were not melted into ingots. King Charles, newly seated on the Holy Empire's throne, is exhibiting to the public the trophies from his new bits of world.
Albrecht Durer doesn't know the Mexican poem that explains that the true artist finds pleasure in his work and talks with his heart, because he has one that isn't dead and eaten by ants. But seeing what he sees, Durer hears those words and finds that he is experiencing the greatest happiness of his half century of life.


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The Mexica (Aztec) king Motecuhzoma greeted Hernan Cortés in 1519 with gifts of gold, silver, and precious stones, including jewelry, ornaments, headpieces, disks, garments, shields, and helmets. Cortés sent the tribute to Charles V, king of Spain and emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, who placed them on exhibit in 1520. Albrecht Dürer viewed the exhibit in Brussels and extolled its beauty in his travel journal: 

At Brussels is a very splendid Townhall, large and covered with beautiful carved stonework, and it has a noble, open tower. . . . I saw the things which have been brought to the King from the new land of gold, a sun all of gold a whole fathom broad, and a moon all of silver of the same size, also two rooms full of armor of the people there, and all manner of wondrous weapons of theirs, harness and darts, very strange clothing, beds, and all kinds of wonderful objects of human use, much better worth seeing than prodigies [myths, fairy tales]. These things were all so precious that they are valued at 100,000 florins [guilders] All the days of my life I have seen nothing that rejoiced my heart so much as these things, for I saw amongst them wonderful works of art, and I marvelled at the subtle Ingenia of men in foreign lands. Indeed I cannot express all that I thought there.

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It is quite clear from the passage that Dürer’s admiration is of riches, curiosities, and craft. When he discusses Western “art” he uses different terms, such as proportion, or alludes to comparisons with antiquity. Contrary to usual interpretations, he doesn’t marvel at the “art” of the New World, he marvels at the “curiosities” and “craft.”
Yet by the eighteenth century what were “heathen idols” had become art. Europe was more secular and Mexico was less afraid of native religious revivals. When three Aztec sculptures came to light in the construction in the Zócalo of Mexico City in 1790, two were left visible and eventually moved to a new museum devoted to antiquity. The third, a colossal idol-like female figure, was reburied for some time for fear of its effect on the natives. By the end of the nineteenth century, however, it had found its place in the museum too. Plaster casts were made of the sculptures and exhibited in 1824 in London for a public eager to see exotic monuments. 
http://www.columbia.edu/~ep9/articles_thinking.html
 

Fernand Deligny

.....Writing here is possibly an expression of the innate, and is thus not about “making” sense but is merely the innate ritual of “acting”, the mode of the Arachnean. It is what Deligny would call “a-conscious”, outside the conscious or subconscious. As the Brazilian philosopher and Deligny scholar, Peter Pàl Pelbart states,

“Deligny refers to the turtle traced by the aborigine in a tree’s bark, then abandoned–the essential there is the tracing, the movements of the hand that come and go, not being this “his” hand, just as the web is not this one spider’s…and our emotion comes from the fact that this drawing is common; a sense common to us, human, since the human has for common the hand in motion. Common, communism. When conscience is eclipsed it is worth looking, as if at a lunar eclipse, and what is seen, even if it is not visible, are the traces of the Arachnean.

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It is within “acting” in an innate, unattached manner, keeping a distance from one another, that the network was spun

“[…] anyone who came from one of the distant collectives and passed by the silk farm would place, lettuce, blackberries or cheeses on the stone which were from another collective, and then would take back with them whatever had been placed by someone else on their own collective’s stone. For the most part, all of this took place without anyone else being present besides the passerby from the collective.”

A profound detachment to naming and to others at once proximate and distant...

Drew S. Burk

 Cartes et lignes d’erre, 1969-1978  

poison apple

scylla

anne carson on le mepris/ homer / gift economies

… the female as a content without form whose boundaries are inadequate … she leaks, she swells… the monsters of greek myth are females with deranged boundaries ; scylla, sphinx, harpies

are you an inately unbounded thing, the movie asks?

she wraps herself in boundlessness and exits

Braque Ponge

A sapate is a very important gift hidden in another gift much less modest, one lemon for example and there is inside a big diamond.

Australia has ordered an investigation into the discovery of sewing needles hidden in strawberries, amid growing alarm over scares across the country.

Contaminated punnets have now been reported in six states and territories. A minister called it a "vicious crime".

hermit