Rune 22 of 24 · Tyr's aett
Ingwaz
“the god or hero Ing” · sound: ng
Looks the same either way up: never reversed.
Historical evidence
Old English ing names a hero first seen among the East Danes, who went away east over the waves. Ing is linked, debatedly, with the Norse Yngvi-Freyr. The rune has no Norse counterpart.
The name Ingwaz is a modern reconstruction of the Proto-Germanic name; the Elder Futhark’s own names are not recorded.
In the rune poems (original texts)
Ing wæs ærest mid East-Denum
gesewen secgun, oþ he siððan est
ofer wæg gewat; wæn æfter ran;
ðus Heardingas ðone hæle nemdun.Original texts as printed in Bruce Dickins, Runic and Heroic Poems of the Old Teutonic Peoples, Cambridge University Press, 1915. Public domain. The summary above is Scryway’s own; no translation is reproduced.
Modern interpretation
From 20th-century and later divinatory practice, written for Scryway. Not a historical meaning.
Keywords: gestation, completion, inner potential
Upright
Something complete in itself and ready to emerge: a phase ending, energy gathered before release.