Since this is still a contentious issue, apparently, I wanted to announce that I will no longer be using the Sonnenrad Heinrich Himmler designed for Wewelsburg castle to represent the nyktelios experience. It was never about the symbol but what it represented. I only used it because that’s how it initially presented, I liked the labyrinthian effect and the inclusion of Sowilō, one of my favorite Runes (after Úruz, Dagaz, Thurisaz, and Berkana; it’s so hard to choose!) — plus, none of the Old German Sun Wheels had the same resonance. While I disagreed with the politics of its creator and the idiocy of many who use the symbol today, I didn’t really feel I had much of a choice since I draw for shit and the artist I used to work with turned out to be a complete slimeball. I understood I was risking pissing a bunch of folks off, but felt the mysteries coming through were more important. I regret the pain, confusion, etc. that this decision has caused. 

But happily while researching the Illyrians and specifically the branch which came to be known as the Iapygians who inhabited that portion of Apulia where Taras/Tarentum and Lecce would one day come to be founded I discovered some pretty fucking cool alternatives. What’s particularly interesting is that a number of these are symbols we’ve already been using in the tradition, a couple of which I even have tattooed on my body — and the fact that these originated in one of the most sacred locales in our tradition is just honey-glaze on the libum. Here’s a Wikipedia, which gives you a sense of what I’m talking about without showing the actual symbol I’m considering adapting.