heimdall's aett · position 13
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Eihwaz
yew tree · phoneme “ei”
eihwaz is the yew — poison in the needle, and the oldest living thing in the churchyard.
she signifies
death and rebirthendurancetransformation
Yews were planted in graveyards and can live a thousand years — a tree that holds death and endurance in the same trunk without contradiction. Eihwaz marks transformation that requires an ending first, not a shortcut around one.
merkstave — reversed
symmetrical. she reads the same both ways.