I wanted to put together a brief record of my studies into Dirokvul as a practice, but primarily of the Sul’voth runes themselves. Dirokvul is a splendidly curated craft by Sil Ualthum. Sil Ualthum is an occult practitioner with a fine taste for linguistic arts as well as sigils and runes. The prospect of crafting an entire alphabet of imagery that produces particular facets of energy and focus is not only one of the most fascinating and needed additions to the occult community as it grows but also a rather impressive feat in and of itself.
As a humble hobbyist runesmith and sigil craftsman myself, I am quite drawn to the Sul’voth. In this piece, I am going to simply take some time to record here the small progress I have made with my studies into the Sul’voth, the processes I have taken, feedback from my colleagues, and experimentations with the Sul’voth.
If you have not regarded the Sul’voth, the following link should provide you with access to some preliminary data and information.
https://ualthum.tumblr.com/Dirokvul
To begin, I went ahead and worked somewhat backward with the Sul’voth. Whereas certainly there may have been a particular purpose to the order in which the Sul’voth were presented to me, I opted instead to work more intuitively with them as I began my study.
https://ualthum.tumblr.com/sulvoth-runes
It felt a bit more appropriate for me, though I could not definitively tell you why.
To begin, I had structurally found myself becoming familiar with each rune and its name as well as preliminary meanings and translations. These runes are not just letterings but structurally they are a very essence, an augur if you will, of the propositions they provide. They do not mean what they mean. They are what they mean. They are an embodiment of their meaning. The form that they take is a direct continuum of the essences they bestow upon the practitioner. And they are exceptionally effective as well.
Colleagues of mine have varying and supportive inputs on these and found that their practices and paths vary in determining their integrity to take in the prospects of particular runes. This is unsurprising of course, as not every individual is accustomed to certain spices or various dialects. This would depend on their attunement of course.
I chose to begin my study without the usage of drilling out information and knowledge. Instead, I familiarised myself with each rune through the tedious process of copying my own chart of the runes and using it as a reference guide. In doing this, I become familiar with the shapes and forms that the runes make. I added the base information in my reference notes below each rune along with the names.
From this point, I felt that the best approach was to disregard some of the texts with the utmost amount of respect and familiarise myself with the forms and shapes from an intuitive perspective. For about fifteen minutes, I spent time meditating briefly upon each rune and the particular energies they provided. I went through each rune and then proceeded to, in a separate space, practice the shapes of the runes that I felt particularly connected to. With a focus on particular runes I had a smooth transition into comprehending, I then opened up the generously provided texts and I began my reading from there.
Not in any particular order, I have begun my study and focus on the runes with the following:
Ish
Av
Um
Wos
Yil
Nol
Wos has been a particular focus of mine as I attempt to work closely with it. I have found it to be quite smooth alongside other runes and using it as a preliminary rune alongside Thu. With this support in the beginning of a study session, I have discovered that the usage of these two in conjunction provides opportunity, exposure, and coherence for other runes. This process has been slowly refined of course and the sessions are minimal. I have become far more acquainted with the runes of choice through these processes.
As I progress down these lines and work more intimately with the six I was particularly drawn to, I have found that other runes link and commune with one another in a coherent and smooth manner. It is like one is a breeze and the other is an aroma carried upon it. Nol blends into Ish a bit for me and then Ish blends into Rak (a rune that I am sub-par in my comprehension of and I am hardly a novice in my study).
However, as I work with bindrunes (properly and respectively known as Dal’urk) -
(of course, there is a sacred structure to the bindrune processes of Sul’voth. A limit of two runes per bind-rune has made this a particularly flexible and structuralized process) - it has been seen that the results may or may not be received in manners that are coherent to other practitioners. I mentioned this hitch earlier.
Sul’voth has a particularly eldritch hue to it. Its mysticism and formation have a channel to it that emphasizes the essence of the runes and their proper energies in a way that seem to have heavy effects upon the individual using them. Their influence is not to be taken lightly.
Practitioners of various blends and palettes have spoken of struggle with particular runes and their energies. This is understandable. While my colleagues have worked within the realm of comprehension of the runes, there has been varying success with particular runes due to the influences they carry. Whereas there is an ease of flow for runes that align closer to the practitioner’s natural energy.
Due to the functionality and the sheer birth of the runes themselves and how they breathe into the space of the practitioner, this will potentially be a common thing noticed amongst the adept practitioners. They notice and make good connections to the runes that are particular to the infrastructure of their practice and knowledge. The backbones of the work they do are the facets of the spine that they find the runes slotting into. This, I believe, could provide a gateway for other runes to be expanded upon as the vertebrate of the spine is stretched through the runes that anchor themselves into the more stable structures of the magician’s practice.
Though the segment here is short, I wanted to provide a little bit of some notes on the very early beginnings of how I have begun to go about the study of Sul’voth runes. In additional pieces I would like to focus on not necessarily each individual rune, but how particular runes are adapting into my work and my sigil craft.
The frontier here that has been provided by Sil Ualthum for me is ripe and vibrant. I excitedly look forward to being able to provide a more structured and detailed bit that contains workings on the sigil work that I have been experimenting with. Due to the sheer ingenuity of the Sul’voth, I am not comfortable quite yet releasing too much in the way of the Dal’urk, as it is still in the Experimentation Labs for me. I am quite adamant about continuing to do meditations and workings with the Sul’voth as I expand and grow my horizons in these early stages of study. As I refine the Dal’urk I have become fond of, there may be more for me to provide here in my humble corner.
Many thanks for your time and a special thank you to Sil Ualthum who has given birth to a stunning focus and creation. As much as this piece I have written is rather meretricious, I hope for it to be a primer for more pragmatic concepts and visuals in the future.
