We don’t need to discredit either science or the fairytale. Mythos is necessary; we need it at funerals, at weddings and when a baby is born. It is a language that shows a reflection of our humanity and it carries metaphorical and poetic depth. We need logos too; in the laboratory, to build a house, in calculating the speed of sound and the

The word rune also means: "mystery, secret or whisper."

Our world the gods called Midgard - the Middle Earth. Over Middle Earth Ymir’s skull was placed as the sky, held up by four dwarves: north, east, south and west - to forever hold it together upon their shoulders. Ymir’s brain is today the floating clouds. Always moving and always thinking - changing like the weather. His decapitation and the

The anathema of logos is "mythos". It is subjective, the personal; the oral story, the poetry - mythos speaks of eagles carrying golden keys, and of the Earth being created in seven days; it speaks of gods riding through the rainbow bridge.

The three sisters of time are called Urd, Verdandi and Skuld. Past, present and future. The word Skuld, depicting the future, means "hidden" - also this is the same root word as "debt" in many Scandinavian languages.

We have Ur-logs in our own lives - the big ripples, such as love won and lost, illness, relations, betrayal and all the tangles of our human existence. In the ceremony we are invited to add new Ur-logs (laws) through a pledge or to change our ways or to do things differently.

"Myths are things which never happened, but always are."

The heart of ceremony is transformation and when done correctly it can offer us a set of new eyes with which to view our relationships, obstacles or community.

The primal laws are called Ur-Log in Old Norse texts (Ur = origin, log = law). These laws relate to the constant unfolding of the cosmos. The consequences of these ancient laws are called the Wyrd.