The Well of Mimir Rune Cards

A modern, inclusive interpretation of the Elder #Futhark in a deck of 24 cards plus booklet

NOW LIVE ON KICKSTARTER!!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/angelaraincatcher/the-well-of-mimir-rune-cards

Story

The #WellofMimir holds all of human experience.

Nestled within the roots of #Yggsdrasil, the #WorldTree, the well of #Mimir is the wellspring of memory, inspiration, and knowledge. It holds the eye of Odin, pledged in sacrifice for cosmic wisdom and the secrets of the runes.

But the #runes are not just a quaint relic of the distant past. Nor are they, in essence, the property of modern neo-fascists or white supremacists.

The runes are the building blocks of language in Northern Europe. And language is #magical – it’s how humans explain and describe their world, it’s how we communicate with each other and the gods, it’s how we give shape to our experiences. The runes, like the letters, symbols, and words of many pre-Christian languages, hold within them the memory, inspiration, and wisdom of the #Ancestors.

We can use the runes to help us understand our experience in this world and to peel back the veils that obscure our clear seeing.

The runes speak to human experience—past, present, and future

About the Deck

The Well of Mimir Rune Card Deck contains 24 cards, each representing one letter within the Elder Futhark; plus a full-color, 36-page instruction booklet.

Each card displays the rune, along with artwork created by spirit-led artist Angela Raincatcher to illustrate a central concept of the rune.

Each card is made of black-core matte card stock and measures 2.75" x 4.75" with rounded corners and UV protective coating.

Each deck comes in a full-color designed tuck box and a 36-page instruction booket with images and interpretations for each card.

Higher levels of support include additions, such as:

6" x 4" sticker sheet with all the cards as stickers you can use for journaling and recording your meditations and readings using the rune cards

a hand-made drawstring bag made with fabric designed by Spookishdelight from Spoonflower and red satin cording.

a "thank you" postcard featuring the design for the Fehu card with my well wishes for your prosperity and abundance
your name listed in the instruction booklet included in every deck of cards

About the Artist

Consciously Pagan and polytheist since the late 1980s, Angela Raincatcher has been a priestess, community organizer, and spirit-led artist since the early 2000s. She is a third-degree initiate in The Order of Elemental Mysteries at Two Rivers Sanctuary, the dean of students for Reflections Mystery School, the creator of the North American Animal Wisdom Oracle, and the host of the Polytheism Today podcast.

Angela is a spirit-led visual artist. Her canvas and studio are the crossroads and sacred circle where the physical meets the spiritual to create manifest forms of beauty, healing, and transformation. Angela learns new systems and connects with the gods through study, trance, and making art. This deck is the expression of her work to understand the Elder Futhark runes as spiritual symbols for magick, meditation, and divination.
You can support Angela's service to community.

Any funds raised by this Kickstarter above the amount needed to fulfill supporter rewards will be used to pay for Angela Raincatcher's participation in Going with Grace's Death Doula training, which will provide the skills and knowledge about end-of-life options and transition presence for Angela to serve the polytheist, pagan, and progressive communities in the Washington-Baltimore area.

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#Futhark
#programming language:

• Escaped in 2017 from University of Copenhagen #DIKU, the #CS research group founded by Naur himself
• A member of Milner ML family of functional languages
• Pure functional—like Miranda, Haskell, Elm, etc.—without objects, obviously
• Far more sensible functor (module) syntax than SML and OCaml
• Far cleaner appearance than SML's half-century-old syntax
• Automatic exploitation of GPU-borne parallelism via CUDA or OpenCL

As a life-long fan of Milner's ML, Futhark is a far more comfortable couch upon which to lounge, for me, than the current crop of popular languages that pander to #AI, like R, Python, Julia, Mojo, etc.

💕 Futhark 💕
— modernity without mania
— performance without penance
— maturity without mouldiness
— pedigree without pomposity

https://futhark-lang.org/index.html
https://youtu.be/QqOsJ0EwyrY?si=Mezz4vm-NSNEhE--

Are Arrays Functions?

https://futhark-lang.org/blog/2026-01-16-are-arrays-functions.html

#HackerNews #Arrays #Functions #Programming #Language #Futhark #HackerNews

#DigiArchMaintainathon motivated me to finally write a blog post about the integration of #futhark code into #rstats packages. I've done this last year for my ggpointgrid package and wanted to document the workflow since then.

Link: https://nevrome.de/blog/posts/2026-01-12-futhark-in-ggpointgrid.html

This is a bit nerdy, admittedly, but maybe still interesting for people that come to R from a #functionalprogramming background. At least I myself will need this again eventually, so I'm glad that the #maintainathon gave me the push.

Futhark sounds like what I'd scream if I dropped a hammer on my big toe.

#futhark