Gnomic runestone translation (script)

1. runes.Cmd

if_1 goto %1%2%3%4 else
echo This portion of the script tosses your runes and picks them up. Please type ~ .runes index ~ for more information. Thank you. put toss rune pause put take rune
echo Your runes are now in your hand. Please move on to the translation section.
exit

Index:
echo ~*~ Domain Runes ~*~
echo Sun Snowflake ShroudedSun Cloud Rainbow Blank
echo ~*~ Direction Runes ~*~
echo Journey Retreat Joy Harvest Protection Strength
echo
echo Also look under: Combination Credits
exit
credits:
echo The main thing I want to do is thank Nofret and her player for sending me this wonderful document on runestones.
echo Without her dedication to scrying, poetry and the arts I'd never have gotten nearly as far as I have in either.
echo This script was made on Leyan, day 11 of the month Phoenatos in the year 5104 using her document that she had
echo scent to me ages ago and that I still to this day use.
echo Should you be using this script and have any questions, please feel free to contact Charna either in Solhaven or
echo by pidgeon at the following address (benalla@cox.net) or through Imsects (CharnaJa).
echo Thank you all and I hope you enjoy.
exit
combination:
echo Combinations and translations
echo This is a complete listing of the possible combinations. To find out their tranlations enter them into the script as an option. (i.e. .runes shroudedsun/joy, etc.))
echo ---------------------------------------
echo Sun/journey sun/protection sun/strength sun/retreat sun/harvest sun/joy
echo
echo snowflake/journey snowflake/protection snowflake/strength snowflake/retreat snowflake/harvest snowflake/joy
echo
echo shroudedsun/journey shroudedsun/protection shroudedsun/strength shroudedsun/retreat shroudedsun/harvest shroudedsun/joy
echo
echo cloud/journey cloud/protection cloud/strength cloud/retreat cloud/harvest cloud/joy
echo
echo rainbow/journey rainbow/protection rainbow/strength rainbow/retreat rainbow/harvest rainbow/joy
echo
echo blank/journey blank/protection blank/strength blank/retreat blank/harvest blank/joy
exit
sun:
echo the sun: success, power, fertility, attainment, the physical
exit
rainbow:
echo the rainbow: mercy, surcease, foresight, the intellect
exit
cloud:
echo the cloud: chaos, confusion, change, the societal
exit
snowflake:
echo the snowflake: death, comfort, divinity, the spirit
exit
shourdedsun:
echo the shrouded sun: illusion, treachery, deception, the emotional
exit
blank:
echo the blank side: none, some, or all of the above, no true context
exit
journey:
echo journey: passage from one thing to another, voluntarily or involuntarily; usually symbolic, but sometimes literal
exit
protection:
echo protection: guardianship, maintaining inner focus, things which are precious
exit
strength:
echo Strength:power, prowess, pride
exit
joy:
echo joy: love, happiness, gain of any kind
exit
harvest:
echo harvest: gain and loss simultaneously, balance, a final result or destiny
exit
retreat:
echo retreat: fear, confusion, the subconscious, the dream realm, a refusal; usually symbolic, but sometimes literal
exit
sun/journey:
echo sun symbol + journey rune: The Quest.
echo This pattern indicates a search of some kind, and generally indicates that the object of the search has not yet been achieved.
exit
sun/protection:
echo sun symbol + protection rune: Honor.
echo When all else is lost, some will remain strong if they retain their honor; others sacrifice honor first and foremost. sun/strength:
echo sun symbol + strength rune: Prowess.
echo This pattern reflects true strength.
echo This strength may be physical, but is more often whatever drives a person and makes them feel best about themselves-- whatever grants self-confidence and assurance, and whatever sets that person apart from the crowd.
exit
sun/joy:
echo sun symbol + joy rune: Love.
echo This may be love of any kind-- romantic love, the love of friends, the love of siblings, the love of parent and child-- but typically indicates love between two people rather than love for an object or an ideal.
echo Another connotation of this pattern may be pride, either in another person or in the self.
exit
sun/harvest:
echo sun symbol + harvest rune: Triumph.
echo This indicates either triumph gained or triumph forthcoming-- achievement and success in the final end.
exit
sun/retreat:
echo sun symbol + retreat rune: Loss.
echo This pattern may also be read as failure-- something wanted, desired, and often needed is no longer within reach, or possibly even destroyed.
echo Unlike the pattern of Defeat, the pattern of Loss indicates no fault of the person's-- Loss ensues when a goal is beyond achievement, while Defeat comes from within and from personal flaws.
exit
rainbow/journey:
echo rainbow symbol + journey rune: Growth.
echo This pattern indicates a journey, conscious or unconscious, towards becoming something more than one already is-- typically growth in knowledge, spirit, and soul rather than physical.
exit
rainbow/protection:
echo rainbow symbol + protection rune: Intervention.
echo This pattern indicates a time when one person (or power) intervenes in the destiny of another.
echo Usually, this intervention is beneficial.
echo Sometimes, it may indicate a desire to maintain control over the person-- to freeze them and protect them at a lesser state than they might otherwise achieve.
exit
rainbow/strength:
echo rainbow symbol + strength rune: Insight.
echo This is a very important pattern, and a very individual one.
echo The pattern of Insight indicates that something has been perceived that was clouded or unknown before, and that such perception has come from inside rather than being offered by another.
echo Alternately, it may indicate the need for meditation or self-examination in order to gain insight not yet achieved.
exit
rainbow/joy:
echo rainbow symbol + joy rune: Hope.
echo When all is darkest, the merciful touch of hope still guides mortals through to open their eyes upon a new and brighter dawn... or to wander forever in the mists of twilight, never perceiving the truth of their fates.
exit
rainbow/harvest:
echo rainbow symbol + harvest rune: Stalemate.
echo This pattern suggests that the final outcome of a conflict will end in... a pause.
echo There is neither victory or defeat; there is neither winner nor loser.
echo The end of a situation is identical to the middle of a situation, no matter how much those involved might wish otherwise.
exit
rainbow/retreat:
echo rainbow symbol + retreat rune: Vision.
echo This pattern is suggestive of the subconscious-- of those quiet imaginings that rise to the surface, like bubbles rising through water, and hold either truth or delusion within.
echo It reflects both dreams and nightmares, and reflects as well the true visions that come from time to time.
exit
cloud/journey:
echo cloud symbol + journey rune: Transformation.
echo Rather than a smooth, gradual journey, this is the pattern indicating metamorphosis-- chaos that leads to a new reality.
echo Once transformation is complete, the person transformed can never return to the way things were, not any more than the butterfly can return to the cocoon-- and attempting to abort a pattern of transformation is almost inevitably futile.
exit
cloud/protection:
echo cloud symbol + protection rune: The Eye of the Storm.
echo Legend claims that certain ocean-storms hold a spot of calm in the center.
echo Without the permission of the storm, none may penetrate to that center without being destroyed, but, for those who are so blessed, the calm is pervasive-- just as it is with a sorcerer's Maelstrom.
echo This pattern indicates one who causes or is surrounded by chaos without being directly affected by the overturning of normal events.
exit
cloud/strength:
echo cloud symbol + strength rune: Chaos.
echo This pattern is the pattern of the Destroyer's joy-- the pattern of revolution, and the pattern in which nothing is secure and everything is potentially unstable.
exit
cloud/joy:
echo cloud symbol + joy rune: Magic.
echo This may indicate the art of a spellcaster, or this may indicate miracle--
echo this pattern denotes a time in which the ways of the physical world are overturned by a touch beyond the physical, and the sense of wild wonder or fear that accompanies such a touch.
exit
cloud/harvest:
echo cloud symbol + harvest rune: The Battlefield.
echo The harvest of chaos can be nothing save destruction.
echo No one may stand upon a battlefield without being torn-- in heart, in spirit, or in body-- unless that person has already been ravaged so fully that there is nothing left for devastation to touch.
exit
cloud/retreat:
echo cloud symbol + retreat rune: Catastrophe.
echo In the previous pattern, The Battlefield, there remains the sense of struggle-- of determination, despite the fact that all has wound to an end.
echo The pattern of Catastrophe indicates the consequence when not even the strength of will remains and all options for escape are in doubt or destroyed.
echo This is the pattern of greatest disaster.
exit
snowflake/journey:
echo snowflake symbol + journey rune: Solitude.
echo Some paths can only be walked alone.
echo This pattern indicates such a path-- a journey of the spirit, either literally through death or symbolically through a change in ideals and goals.
echo It may also indicate a time of literal solitude, either self-chosen or imposed by circumstance.
exit
snowflake/protection:
echo snowflake symbol + protection rune: Determination.
echo This pattern indicates willpower, inner strength, and discipline; it reflects conviction as well, and sometimes piety.
exit
snowflake/strength:
echo snowflake symbol + strength rune: Prayer.
echo When all else is confused and all hope has fled, guidance and new strength may be found by reaching to a higher power for aid.
exit
snowflake/joy:
echo snowflake symbol + joy rune: Healing.
echo Empathy might be a better term for this-- it indicates a gentle, quiet joy that comes from knowing others and from aiding them, either physically, spiritually, or mentally.
echo The pattern of Healing is almost never a wild or passionate joy, and often a joy tinged by grief, sorrow, or melancholy-- it suggests a warmth from within, a joy that endures despite all other things fading.
exit
snowflake/harvest:
echo snowflake symbol + harvest rune: Death.
echo The harvest of winter is death, as the Gatekeeper claims the souls that She wishes and sends others back to the world of the living.
echo This may also indicate a death of the spirit or heart rather than a death of the body-- a numbness, or a grief that washes all other concerns away.
exit
snowflake/retreat:
echo snowflake symbol + retreat rune: Rebirth.
echo When death retreats, life comes again. This may be literal, but is often symbolic.
exit
shroudedsun/journey:
echo shrouded sun symbol + journey rune: Deception.
echo This may be speaking falsehoods, lying to oneself, lying to others, or merely clouding the truth, but one thing is certain:
echo the path of deception is an easy one to begin and a difficult one to leave, and every lie leads to a thousand more.
exit
shroudedsun/protection:
echo shrouded sun symbol + protection rune: Lethe.
echo How can deception best be hidden, the emotions best be shielded, or knowledge best be secreted away? Lethe: in forgetfulness, all is protected... but all is destroyed.
exit
shroudedsun/strength:
echo shrouded sun symbol + strength rune: Betrayal.
echo This pattern indicates a betrayal at work somewhere: the strength of a lie is greatest when the lie is most believed, but, in time, that lie will be uncovered, and a betrayal will result.
echo When performing a twinned rune reading (here for more information), an appearance of a sun symbol when the pattern of Betrayal has already manifested suggests revenge will ensue.
exit
shroudedsun/joy:
echo shrouded sun symbol + joy rune: Lust.
echo The falsest joy comes when the heart is completely absent, and the eye or body moves to possess rather than share.
echo This does not necessarily reflect a lust of the body; it may indicate greed, powerlust, jealousy, or any other self-centered "love" that causes harm to others.
exit
shroudedsun/harvest:
echo shrouded sun symbol + harvest rune: Defeat.
echo The final harvest of lies comes when those who fall with lies on their lips arise in the Serpent Lord's power.
echo In its most extreme form, this configuration may indicate the presence or approach of the Undead.
echo In lesser forms, the pattern of defeat indicates precisely that-- and implies that the defeat was caused in some way by conscious or subconscious voluntary action.
echo This is most common when defeat ensues either from failing to take all possible steps toward achieving a goal or towards attempting to achieve a goal that do not correspond with the true desires and will of one's heart and soul.
exit
shroudedsun/retreat:
echo shrouded sun symbol + retreat rune: Insanity.
echo The realm of dreams when dreams are clouded by deception is the realm of nightmare.
echo This may indicate either a momentary lapse of reason or a permanent one.
exit
blank/journey:
echo blank side + journey rune: The Messenger.
echo This indicates a change in events brought on by an outside party or force with no personal stake in the matters at hand; in particular, natural phenomena and random chance are often indicated when runes display the pattern of the Messenger.
echo This change may be for better or for worse; the Messenger is impartial, and only indicates the change.
exit
blank/protection:
echo blank side + protection rune: Fear.
echo At the heart of protection is a fear of loss-- loss of honor, loss of a loved one, loss of an ability, loss of property, loss of the self, loss of perhaps a thousand other things, but nonetheless loss-- for, without fear, there would be no reason to protect.
echo Simultaneously, by the very act of fearing for the loss of a thing, value is placed upon a thing. This pattern reflects the innate vulnerability of all beings.
exit
blank/strength:
echo blank side + strength rune: Power.
echo The pattern of Prowess reflects that which grants self-confidence, but the pattern of Power reflects that which grants control-- over the self, and over others.
echo A person with no self-confidence may have a great deal of power, and the opposite is true as well.
echo Wealth, strength, magic, respect, the attention of the gods, and the love of others are all things that may be indicated with this pattern.
exit
blank/joy:
echo blank side + joy rune: Ecstacy.
echo This is the pleasure beyond all other pleasures-- the pleasure that blinds at the same time as it exhilarates.
echo Whether it comes from physical pleasures, drink, drugs, gambling, the frenzy of battle, the call of scholarly research, the company of men or women, or something entirely different from all, this pattern is indicative of a pleasure great enough to cause addiction-- something that cannot be readily set aside, or sometimes even set aside at all.
exit
blank/harvest:
echo blank side + harvest rune: Memory.
echo When all else is over, the only harvest remaining is the harvest of memory-- the chance to pick up the pieces and move on, learning or failing to learn from whatever has passed.
exit
blank/retreat:
echo blank side + retreat rune: Refusal.
echo This combination may indicate either a refusal on the part of the self or another person to take a potential action or may indicate a refusal of the runestones to reply.
echo If the latter is suspected, the best thing to do is to set the runes aside for the rest of the day-- pushing further will only lose the Somber Lord's favor.
exit