Comments on: Germanic concepts of Fate http://www.gangleri.nl/articles/136/germanic-concepts-of-fate/ Sat, 10 Jul 2010 10:54:18 +0200 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: Albert http://www.gangleri.nl/articles/136/germanic-concepts-of-fate/#comment-118 Albert Wed, 28 Oct 2009 07:46:32 +0000 http://www.gangleri.nl/articles/?p=136#comment-118 It is important to know that the word lot, although it correlates with the Italic-based fate, providence, destiny, has a quite different meaning. Its root is in the Old Teutonic hluto, the primary meaning of which is uncertain. "In genuine OE idiom" (according to the Oxford English Dictionary) "the verb governing hlot was weorpan ~ to throw; its meaning is primarily the object (usually a piece of wood) used in the ancient method of deciding disputes, dividing plunder or property, selecting persons for an office or duty, by an appeal to chance or the divine agency concerned with chance." Thus it is not only the casting or drawing of lots ~ the action, but also the result: what falls to a person by lot, a share, or inheritance. The important difference with the Italic cognates is that the Teutonic lot has no connotation of divine determinism. This concept of the human lot is opposed to belief in a fated existence. One need not bend to destiny, for the human lot is subject to circumstance and one's willful intercession. Wrote Madame Blavatsky: "Reject fate that implies a blind course of some still blinder power; believe in destiny which from birth to death everyone weaves thread by thread around themselves." Destiny and fate may make a Needlot, and we live side by side with what befalls us of necessity; but each woman, every man, has power to bend that great Need by acting with the integrity of their convictions. http://www.albertburger.com/eddas%20weird.htm albert It is important to know that the word lot, although it correlates with the
Italic-based fate, providence, destiny, has a quite different meaning. Its root is
in the Old Teutonic hluto, the primary meaning of which is uncertain. “In genuine OE
idiom” (according to the Oxford English Dictionary) “the verb governing hlot was
weorpan ~ to throw; its meaning is primarily the object (usually a piece of wood)
used in the ancient method of deciding disputes, dividing plunder or property,
selecting persons for an office or duty, by an appeal to chance or the divine agency
concerned with chance.” Thus it is not only the casting or drawing of lots ~ the
action, but also the result: what falls to a person by lot, a share, or inheritance.
The important difference with the Italic cognates is that the Teutonic lot has no
connotation of divine determinism. This concept of the human lot is opposed to
belief in a fated existence. One need not bend to destiny, for the human lot is
subject to circumstance and one’s willful intercession. Wrote Madame Blavatsky:
“Reject fate that implies a blind course of some still blinder power; believe in
destiny which from birth to death everyone weaves thread by thread around
themselves.” Destiny and fate may make a Needlot, and we live side by side with what
befalls us of necessity; but each woman, every man, has power to bend that great
Need by acting with the integrity of their convictions.
http://www.albertburger.com/eddas%20weird.htm

albert

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