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Sig is the name given by Guido von List
Guido von List

Guido Karl Anton List, better known as Guido von List was an Austrian German poet, journalist, writer, businessman and dealer of leather goods, mountaineer, hiker, dramatist, playwright, and rower, but was most notable as an occultist and V?lkisch movement author who is seen as one of the most important figures in Germanic neopa...
 for the Sigel
Sowilo rune

*S?wil? or *Saewel? is the reconstructed Proto-Germanic name of the s-rune, meaning "sun". The name is attested for the same rune in all three rune poems, Norwegian and Icelandic S?l and Anglo-Saxon Sigel, as well as for the corresponding letter of the Gothic alphabet ?? s, called sauil....
 or s rune of the Armanen Futharkh
Armanen runes

The Armanen runes, or Armanen 'Futharkh' as List referred to them, are a row of 18 runes that are closely based on the Younger Futhark which were "revealed to" the Austrian occult mysticist and Germanic revivalist Guido von List in 1902 and his theories subsequently published....
, and is also used by Karl Maria Wiligut
Karl Maria Wiligut

Karl Maria Wiligut was an Ariosophy and a Nazi occultism. He was the only occultist who experienced real influence in the Third Reich and has therefore also been called "Heinrich Himmler's Grigori Rasputin"....
 for his runes
Wiligut runes

The Wiligut runes are a runic row developed by Karl Maria Wiligut in 1934, Wiligut rejected Guido von List's Armanen runes and his overall philosophy....
.

e the rune itself has no direct connection to Nazism, the Sig rune used by Karl Maria Wiligut
Karl Maria Wiligut

Karl Maria Wiligut was an Ariosophy and a Nazi occultism. He was the only occultist who experienced real influence in the Third Reich and has therefore also been called "Heinrich Himmler's Grigori Rasputin"....
 (Himmler's official occultist) in his own runic row (Wiligut runes
Wiligut runes

The Wiligut runes are a runic row developed by Karl Maria Wiligut in 1934, Wiligut rejected Guido von List's Armanen runes and his overall philosophy....
) was used in the context of Nazi mysticism
Nazi mysticism

Nazi occultism is any of several highly speculative theories about Nazism, also called the Nazi Mysteries. With the publication of Le Matin des Magiciens in 1960, this kind of speculation has become part of popular culture....
 and is most commonly used to refer to the insignia of the Schutzstaffel
Schutzstaffel

The , abbreviated SS- or - was a major Nazi organization under Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party. The SS grew from a small paramilitary unit to a powerful force that served as the F?hrer's "Praetorian Guard," the Nazi Party's "Shield Squadron" and a force that, fielding almost a million men, managed to exert as much political influence as th...
 (SS) of the Third Reich.

Guido von List
Guido von List

Guido Karl Anton List, better known as Guido von List was an Austrian German poet, journalist, writer, businessman and dealer of leather goods, mountaineer, hiker, dramatist, playwright, and rower, but was most notable as an occultist and V?lkisch movement author who is seen as one of the most important figures in Germanic neopa...
 in his "Armanen runes
Armanen runes

The Armanen runes, or Armanen 'Futharkh' as List referred to them, are a row of 18 runes that are closely based on the Younger Futhark which were "revealed to" the Austrian occult mysticist and Germanic revivalist Guido von List in 1902 and his theories subsequently published....
" called the rune "Sig", apparently based on Sigel, thus changing the concept associated with it from "Sun" to "victory" (German Sieg), arriving at a sequence "Sig", "Tyr
Tyr

File:T?r by Fr?lich.jpgT?r is the god of single combat, victory and heroic glory in Norse mythology, portrayed as a one-handed man. In the late Icelandic Eddas, he is portrayed, alternately, as the son of Odin or of Hymir , while the origins of his name and his possible relationship to Tuisto suggest he was once considered the father of...
" in his row, yielding Sigtyr (God of victory)
List of names of Odin

Odin , the chief god of Norse mythology, was referred to by more than 200 names in the skaldic and Edda traditions.Then said Gangleri: "Exceeding many names have ye given him; and, by my faith, it must indeed be a goodly wit that knows all the lore and the examples of what chances have brought about each of these names." Then H?rr made ans...
, a name of Odin
Odin

Odin , is considered the chief ?sir in Norse paganism. Homologous with the Anglo-Saxons Woden and the Old High German Wotan, it is descended from Proto-Germanic *Wodanaz or *Wodanaz....
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Sig is the name given by Guido von List
Guido von List

Guido Karl Anton List, better known as Guido von List was an Austrian German poet, journalist, writer, businessman and dealer of leather goods, mountaineer, hiker, dramatist, playwright, and rower, but was most notable as an occultist and V?lkisch movement author who is seen as one of the most important figures in Germanic neopa...
 for the Sigel
Sowilo rune

*S?wil? or *Saewel? is the reconstructed Proto-Germanic name of the s-rune, meaning "sun". The name is attested for the same rune in all three rune poems, Norwegian and Icelandic S?l and Anglo-Saxon Sigel, as well as for the corresponding letter of the Gothic alphabet ?? s, called sauil....
 or s rune of the Armanen Futharkh
Armanen runes

The Armanen runes, or Armanen 'Futharkh' as List referred to them, are a row of 18 runes that are closely based on the Younger Futhark which were "revealed to" the Austrian occult mysticist and Germanic revivalist Guido von List in 1902 and his theories subsequently published....
, and is also used by Karl Maria Wiligut
Karl Maria Wiligut

Karl Maria Wiligut was an Ariosophy and a Nazi occultism. He was the only occultist who experienced real influence in the Third Reich and has therefore also been called "Heinrich Himmler's Grigori Rasputin"....
 for his runes
Wiligut runes

The Wiligut runes are a runic row developed by Karl Maria Wiligut in 1934, Wiligut rejected Guido von List's Armanen runes and his overall philosophy....
.

Nazism

While the rune itself has no direct connection to Nazism, the Sig rune used by Karl Maria Wiligut
Karl Maria Wiligut

Karl Maria Wiligut was an Ariosophy and a Nazi occultism. He was the only occultist who experienced real influence in the Third Reich and has therefore also been called "Heinrich Himmler's Grigori Rasputin"....
 (Himmler's official occultist) in his own runic row (Wiligut runes
Wiligut runes

The Wiligut runes are a runic row developed by Karl Maria Wiligut in 1934, Wiligut rejected Guido von List's Armanen runes and his overall philosophy....
) was used in the context of Nazi mysticism
Nazi mysticism

Nazi occultism is any of several highly speculative theories about Nazism, also called the Nazi Mysteries. With the publication of Le Matin des Magiciens in 1960, this kind of speculation has become part of popular culture....
 and is most commonly used to refer to the insignia of the Schutzstaffel
Schutzstaffel

The , abbreviated SS- or - was a major Nazi organization under Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party. The SS grew from a small paramilitary unit to a powerful force that served as the F?hrer's "Praetorian Guard," the Nazi Party's "Shield Squadron" and a force that, fielding almost a million men, managed to exert as much political influence as th...
 (SS) of the Third Reich.

Guido von List
Guido von List

Guido Karl Anton List, better known as Guido von List was an Austrian German poet, journalist, writer, businessman and dealer of leather goods, mountaineer, hiker, dramatist, playwright, and rower, but was most notable as an occultist and V?lkisch movement author who is seen as one of the most important figures in Germanic neopa...
 in his "Armanen runes
Armanen runes

The Armanen runes, or Armanen 'Futharkh' as List referred to them, are a row of 18 runes that are closely based on the Younger Futhark which were "revealed to" the Austrian occult mysticist and Germanic revivalist Guido von List in 1902 and his theories subsequently published....
" called the rune "Sig", apparently based on Sigel, thus changing the concept associated with it from "Sun" to "victory" (German Sieg), arriving at a sequence "Sig", "Tyr
Tyr

File:T?r by Fr?lich.jpgT?r is the god of single combat, victory and heroic glory in Norse mythology, portrayed as a one-handed man. In the late Icelandic Eddas, he is portrayed, alternately, as the son of Odin or of Hymir , while the origins of his name and his possible relationship to Tuisto suggest he was once considered the father of...
" in his row, yielding Sigtyr (God of victory)
List of names of Odin

Odin , the chief god of Norse mythology, was referred to by more than 200 names in the skaldic and Edda traditions.Then said Gangleri: "Exceeding many names have ye given him; and, by my faith, it must indeed be a goodly wit that knows all the lore and the examples of what chances have brought about each of these names." Then H?rr made ans...
, a name of Odin
Odin

Odin , is considered the chief ?sir in Norse paganism. Homologous with the Anglo-Saxons Woden and the Old High German Wotan, it is descended from Proto-Germanic *Wodanaz or *Wodanaz....
. Under this name of "Sig rune", the s-rune played a certain role in Fascist symbolism
Fascist symbolism

As there were many different manifestations of fascism, especially during the interwar years, there were also many different symbols of Fascist movements....
, most notably in the badge of the Schutzstaffel
Schutzstaffel

The , abbreviated SS- or - was a major Nazi organization under Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party. The SS grew from a small paramilitary unit to a powerful force that served as the F?hrer's "Praetorian Guard," the Nazi Party's "Shield Squadron" and a force that, fielding almost a million men, managed to exert as much political influence as th...
 (SS), but this is credited to the Wiligut runic
Wiligut runes

The Wiligut runes are a runic row developed by Karl Maria Wiligut in 1934, Wiligut rejected Guido von List's Armanen runes and his overall philosophy....
 row of Karl Maria Wiligut
Karl Maria Wiligut

Karl Maria Wiligut was an Ariosophy and a Nazi occultism. He was the only occultist who experienced real influence in the Third Reich and has therefore also been called "Heinrich Himmler's Grigori Rasputin"....
 as opposed to Guido von List.

Flag Schutzstaffel
The SS Sig Runes design was created in 1931 when Walter Heck, a Sturmführer
Sturmführer

Sturmf?hrer was a paramilitary rank of the Nazi Party which began as a title used by the Sturmabteilung in 1925 and became an actual SA rank in 1928....
 in the SS, drew two reversed and inverted Sig Runes side by side and noticed the similarity to the initials of the SS. Heck sold the rights of the Sig Runes to the SS for 2.5 Reichsmarks
German reichsmark

The Reichsmark was the currency in Germany from 1924 until June 20, 1948. The Reichsmark was subdivided into 100 Reichspfennig....
, and the runes were quickly adopted as the insignia of the Schutzstaffel and became one of the most commonly used forms of SS unit insignia
SS unit insignia

SS unit insignia was a form of uniform insignia used by the Germany Schutzstaffel between the years of 1932 and 1945. SS unit insignia was displayed on an SS member?s right collar and was worn opposite the badge of Ranks and insignia of the Schutzstaffel....
.

The Hitler Youth
Hitler Youth

The Hitler Youth was a paramilitary organization of the Nazi Party. It existed from 1922 to 1945. The HJ was the second oldest paramilitary Nazi group, founded one year after its adult counterpart, the Sturmabteilung ....
 also used a single Sig Rune, but not as the emblem of its organization. The similarity to the SS insignia was an indication that the Hitler Youth was considered by many to be a central recruiting area for membership in the SS.

Wiligut wrote of the rune in 'Whispering of Gotos – Rune-Knowledge' under the pseudonym Jarl Widar in the magazine Hagal
Hagal

Hagal may refer to:*The Old High German for "hail"*Hagall, the Younger Futhark h rune*Hagal , the derived rune in Germanic mysticism*Hagal , a fictional planet in Frank Herbert's Dune universe...
 11 (1934), Heft 7, pp. 7-15]' in the section '6. Runes Speak!':

  • "In the Al Gotos’ fire of Spirit in Matter demonstrates – Through Energy the “sig-sal-sol-sun-rune,” and mastery of creation…"