In these nine remarkable essays, Collin Cleary expands upon the ideas of his path-breaking book Summoning the Gods and ventures into entirely new territory: "What is a Rune?" explores the nature of mytho-poetic thought and the problem of recovering the mysteries of runa. "The Ninefold" offers a philosophical interpretation of the nine worlds of Germanic myth.. "The Fourfold" uses Martin Heidegger\'s phenomenology of "dwelling" as a means of approaching our ancestors\' way of being in the world.
In these nine remarkable essays, Collin Cleary expands upon the ideas of his path-breaking book Summoning the Gods and ventures into entirely new territory: "What is a Rune?" explores the nature of mytho-poetic thought and the problem of recovering the mysteries of runa
