Dagaz (ᛞ) — Day, Breakthrough, Dawn

Dagaz (ᛞ), twenty-third rune and seventh of Tyr's ætt, is the rune of dagr — day, daylight, and the instant of dawn-breaking. The Old Norwegian Rune Poem says: 'Dagr er dags ljóss' — day is the gods' light, a boon to men. The butterfly-shaped stave depicts the meeting point of two halves — night folding into day, darkness into light — capturing the liminal moment of transformation itself. Unlike Jera's slow cyclical return, Dagaz is the sudden breakthrough, the instant when all polarity resolves. In the Futhark sequence, Dagaz arrives near the end as the illumination that follows the full initiatory journey through all three ættir — the dawn earned through the ordeal.

Cross-Tradition Resonances