If you compare the below “a” rune from the Soshychne “TILARIDS” inscription, you will see that, unlike the ansuz rule normally given, this version looks left. What is curious about the rune is the similarity it has in form to a much later Polish coat of arms – the Jasieńczyk. Although that is not the only way Jasieńczyk has been portrayed, it is the primary way. Jasieńczyk is, of course, a diminutive of Jasion. Ansuz, of course, comes back to the Aesir and, perhaps more fundamentally, to the Sanskrit ásu meaning life force. The Slavic jezioro as well as usta have the same “flowing” derivation.
This is from Kasper Niesiecki’s 1738 “Polish Armorial” (Korona polska przy złotej wolności starożytnemi rycerstwa polskiego i Wielkiego Księstwa Litewskiego klejnotami ozdobiona, volume 2):
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