<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">Thanks, I was hoping there was a benign explanation. I want to believe.<div><br><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On 17. Jan 2024, at 14:52, Jay Vaughan <ibisum@gmail.com> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><br><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On 17.01.2024, at 14:18, Kai Niggemann <<a href="mailto:canine@waf80.de">canine@waf80.de</a>> wrote:</div><div><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;">(What’s with the nordic rune on the panel (“voice 3”, on the left hand side and voice 8 on the right)? In Germany it’s often weird esoteric hippie black metal nazis who are into runes, so I’m a bit taken aback…;)</span></div></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div>Elta Music is Latvian, Latvia has long had its own pagan identity which uses runic systems .. I think the extremists of Germany you refer to might like to try to associate with that, but I don’t think Latvians or indeed Elta Music are expressing identification with them, as runes have just long been a thing in that region .. more than likely these symbols have some context to the voice section they are controlling, but I don’t get the reference...</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://symbolikon.com/downloads/category/latvian-symbols/">https://symbolikon.com/downloads/category/latvian-symbols/</a></div><div><br></div><div>I have a Latvian friend who often wears traditional scarves with runes, I’m gonna ask them some time ..</div><div><br></div><div><div>
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