Runes were simply the letters of the alphabets used by various Germanic peoples before the adoption of the Latin alphabet, primarily meant for carving boring trade records and basic memorials into stone.

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Runes were simply the letters of the alphabets used by various Germanic peoples before the adoption of the Latin alphabet, primarily meant for carving boring trade records and basic memorials into stone. Modern occultists transformed these ancient letters into a mystical divination tool, casting them like dice to tell fortunes and uncover hidden spiritual truths. The entire concept of using runes for fortune-telling was largely invented in the 1980s by a guy who openly admitted he just made the system up while sitting in a garden. People are treating an extinct form of mundane written communication like it holds the secrets of the cosmos, which is like future generations throwing Scrabble tiles at the wall to figure out if they should buy a house