Sunday, May 29, 2011

Issue No. 66: Decoding Gaga's Invokation of the Hallristningar

Stephen Fry interviewed Lady Gaga for the London Financial Times last Friday, May 27. If you are a reading-hater, you can hear an audio transcript of their charming conversation which includes the topics of Bertold Brecht, Oscar Wilde and Camille Paglia. It's adorable how Mr. Fry wore Comme des Garcons for their meeting.


The thing that is truly interesting about the article is the evidence of what is happening in this photograph. Gaga happens to be wearing a hat inspired by the Wagnerian version of the Viking helmet which for some reason includes horns. Within the geometric border of the carpet one can find a hidden swastika motif. The entire room where this conversation and tea take place is sealed within a intertwining "circle" of  the most powerful rune of the pre-runic alphabet.

The series of characters called runes (or, the early Germanic or Old Norse alphabet which have phonetic as well as divinatory properties) are actually derived from a more complex series of thirty-two symbols found in Northern European caves which were sites of pagan worship and occult ritual. This ordered set of sacred symbols were solely used for purposes of magick. Herein is the Swastika and three more characters of close resemblance. This is the earliest place this form is found in the West. These letters were the divine tools of the Cult of Hallristningr who begat the Asatru (the polytheistic Norse religion still practised in Iceland today). I think it no accident that in the course of the interview Mr. Fry and Gaga talk about how magick is linked to the full realization of personal identity and that constructing one's surface is a way of practising magick. It is important to remember that all Western written language comes from an incantational combining of symbol with formal structure as well as an individual tonal frequency. Or, "spelling".

A while ago, I noticed that most of Gaga's kick off dates fall on 23s. I don't believe this to be a coincidence either. You can see and read more here.

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