The Tradition Behind Midsommar

What traditional elements and motifs of Old Scandinavian religion and Folklore can be perceptible in the horror movie Midsommar? - Exploring human sacrifices, runes, magic, divination, mythology and other concepts.

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Credits: Thumbnail is one of the movie posters used to advertise Midsommar.

If you are wondering about the runes expressed in the thumbnail of this video, which is one of the posters used to advertise Midsommar, and in the movie it is the rune stone to which the voluntary victims place their blood onto, we can honestly come up with a variety of explanations for the meaning behind the runes. But I cannot help to think that the choice of runes is pretty interesting ( ᛦ ᚱ ᛈ ). It starts with inverted Algiz (ᛦ). This rune is connected to a protective teaching force and spirituality in the sense of reaching a state of enlightenment. However, inverted, it expresses the banishment of the fear of death. But it’s curious because if we see this rune not as inverted Algiz but in fact as the Anglo-Saxon rune Calc or also as the last rune of the Younger Futhark (Ýr) it is related to death. It is a symbol of life and death and also related to afterlife and rebirth with a direct connection with the concept of the Tree of Life Yggdrasil (Yew tree). The next rune in the middle is Raidho (ᚱ), which expresses cosmic cyclical law and rhythm and it is directly connected to travel, movement and journey and in here seems to form a link between the first rune "death" and what comes next. The next and final rune is most likely Perthro (ᛈ), which is the unknown expressed in fate and in relation to prophecy; it is an evolutionary change by unknown means after a sequence of events that leads us to this change that can’t be foreseen. Somewhat through sacrifice you are rewarded with what cannot be perceptible by your choices and actions that led you to that final moment – unknowability. So I would say that the self-sacrifice that leads to death it will lead to - or will provide - favourable circumstances that most likely will be unknown to the person who died, because the beneficial outcome is not solely or entirely to the person who self-sacrificed but to others that might receive something beneficial. Sacrificing in many aspects is a "game" of chance - gambling with one's life - and the fate or outcome of the action is unpredictable. But on the other hand, my interpretation here might be too farfetched.

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Видео The Tradition Behind Midsommar канала Arith Härger