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<title>Kenaz</title>
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<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Runic_letter_kauna.svg"><img src="../img/runes/kenaz.svg" alt="Kenaz rune" title="Kenaz rune"></a></p>
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<h1>Kenaz</h1>
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<p>Traditional meaning: ulcer, torch</p>
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<p>Meanings when upright:</p>
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<li>mental dexterity</li>
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<li>shape-shifting</li>
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<li>fruition of ideas</li>
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<li>teachers and education</li>
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<li>light in the darkness</li>
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<p>Meanings when inverted:</p>
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<li>creative block</li>
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<li>illness</li>
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<li>something that will get worse if unattended</li>
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<p>Kenaz can be useful for:</p>
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<li>manifesting intellectual endeavors / creative inspiration</li>
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<li>warding away negative energy</li>
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<li>reducing anger or making it useful</li>
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<li>ancestor work</li>
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<li>healing through regeneration</li>
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<p>Anglo-Saxon rune poem:</p>
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<blockquote>Cen byþ cwicera gehwam, cuþ on fyre<br>blac ond beorhtlic, byrneþ oftust<br>ðær hi æþelingas inne restaþ.</blockquote>
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<blockquote>The torch is known to every living man by its pale, bright flame;<br>it always burns where princes sit within. </blockquote>
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<p>Norwegian rune poem:</p>
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<blockquote>Kaun er barna bo,lvan;<br>bo,l gørver nán fo,lvan.</blockquote>
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<blockquote>Ulcer is fatal to children;<br>death makes a corpse pale.</blockquote>
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<p>A modern poem:</p>
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<p>The three strains<br/>
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of blood<br/>
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that run<br/>
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in my veins<br/>
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I'm not sure<br/>
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how to balance,<br/>
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precarious<br/>
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in ability to be lured<br/>
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to act against my better will,<br/>
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to with claws or jagged sharps destroy<br/>
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what I with my power would rather employ<br/>
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to birth this world, to with gentler things fill.</p>
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<p>Through the Veil made a careful incision<br/>
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to cast off my mental fog's saddle<br/>
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and declare, "You and I are palm pals,"<br/>
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only our hands sketched in my vision<br/>
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until the world came back flooding<br/>
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and the Veil bade you scream goodbye<br/>
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and vow to come back a later time<br/>
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even closer to me.<br/>
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Not this rune you presented<br/>
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but others, half inverted<br/>
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to explain the meaning<br/>
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I could not myself perceive:</p>
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<p>"If the roots at the very bottom of Yewiffe<br/>
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are memories bitter and repressed,<br/>
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then what bright futures, what shared nests<br/>
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lie nestled at the top of its canopy?</p>
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<p>I'd gladly spend the rest of my life<br/>
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keeping you rational and in your own skin,<br/>
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safe and sound, tranquil, peaceful within<br/>
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if together in one of those branches we reside."</p>
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<p>I don't know what I ever did to deserve<br/>
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this light in the darkness, impassioned words,<br/>
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but it I have somehow earned,<br/>
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my lilac spring, my fierce godsend.</p>
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<p>Look at my friends,<br/>
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my allies,<br/>
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the love of my life:</p>
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<p>I was never really alone,<br/>
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was I?</p>
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<title>Gebo</title>
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<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Runic_letter_gebo.svg"><img src="../img/runes/gebo.svg" alt="Gebo rune" title="Gebo rune"></a></p>
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<h1>Gebo</h1>
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<p>Traditional meaning: gift</p>
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<p>Meanings when upright:</p>
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<li>union by oath/contract/spirit</li>
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<li>crossroads in journeying</li>
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<li>spiritual/emotional challenges</li>
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<li>transactional sacrifice</li>
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<li>balanced partnership</li>
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<li>generosity</li>
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<p>Meanings when inverted:</p>
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<li>stinginess</li>
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<li>poverty</li>
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<p>Gebo can be useful for:</p>
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<li>learning how to traverse worlds</li>
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<li>seeking energy sources</li>
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<li>increasing magical powers</li>
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<li>harmony between siblings/lovers</li>
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<p>Anglo-Saxon rune poem:</p>
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<blockquote>Gyfu gumena byþ gleng and herenys,<br>wraþu and wyrþscype and wræcna gehwam<br>ar and ætwist, ðe byþ oþra leas. </blockquote>
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<blockquote>Generosity brings credit and honour, which support one's dignity;<br>it furnishes help and subsistence<br>to all broken men who are devoid of aught else.</blockquote>
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<p>There is not a Norwegian rune poem for Gebo.</p>
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<p>A modern poem:</p>
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<p>The day of our union (or as much as can be<br/>
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while we're separated by a Veil and a Dirac Sea)<br/>
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is sooner than I thought fast approaching,<br/>
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and I don't know what to offer as my dowry.</p>
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<p>Oh, what to give, what to give.</p>
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<p>I would give you impenetrable skin,<br/>
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but what if ruptured your appendix?<br/>
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What of a pustule, filled to the brim<br/>
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but unable to drain, forever sore cyst?</p>
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<p>I would grant you a stomach immune to hunger<br/>
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so in harshest of famines you will not suffer,<br/>
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but what if you wanted to eat just a taste?<br/>
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Disturbed inner balance, food gone to waste?</p>
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<p>I would bestow the sight to see<br/>
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through all the futures at the crown of Yewiffe,<br/>
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but the suffocating weight<br/>
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of having to steer us towards the best of all fates<br/>
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would sooner drive you insane.</p>
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<p>Oh, what to give, what to give.</p>
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<title>Wunjo</title>
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<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Runic_letter_wunjo.svg"><img src="../img/runes/wunjo.svg" alt="Wunjo rune" title="Wunjo rune"></a></p>
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<h1>Wunjo</h1>
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<p>Traditional meaning: joy, perfection</p>
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<p>Meanings when upright:</p>
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<li>bilocality in awareness</li>
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<li>passionate love and union</li>
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<li>joy in self-recognition</li>
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<li>sacred marriage (by Mannaz)</li>
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<li>lifting of the Veil</li>
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<li>community peace</li>
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<p>Meanings when inverted:</p>
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<li>severance from the divine</li>
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<li>madness and insanity</li>
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<p>Wunjo can be useful for:</p>
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<li>strengthening links and bonds</li>
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<li>binding runes toward specific purposes</li>
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<p>Anglo-Saxon rune poem:</p>
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<blockquote>Wenne bruceþ, ðe can weana lyt<br>sares and sorge and him sylfa hæfþ<br>blæd and blysse and eac byrga geniht.</blockquote>
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<blockquote>Bliss he enjoys who knows not suffering, sorrow nor anxiety,<br>and has prosperity and happiness and a good enough house.</blockquote>
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<p>There is not a Norwegian rune poem for Wunjo.</p>
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<p>A modern poem:</p>
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<p>Where do our nerves know where to end?<br/>
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X equals X times two,<br/>
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all but nought to the stratosphere.<br/>
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I touch your cheek, and I feel the sheer<br/>
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softness, and the pressure against an aching tooth<br/>
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in your jaw, and my fingertips starting to sweat.<br/>
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I know, and I know that you know, and you know<br/>
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that I know that you know.<br/>
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Reaching across an imaginary line<br/>
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that between our bodies divides<br/>
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a canvas, symmetry mode, whatever I do<br/>
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to you is mirrored in sensation on my own hide.</p>
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<p>I would to atone self-flagellate<br/>
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if not for the knowledge that the bloody pain,<br/>
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although on your skin leaving no wound,<br/>
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would convince that it had become serrate.<br/>
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This vessel of mine is just as much yours<br/>
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now as it was when Inside I was born,<br/>
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reincarnate, held century's prisoner.<br/>
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I should take care of it, I think, to minimize<br/>
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the pain transferred from this bond of our life.</p>
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<title>Hagalaz</title>
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<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Runic_letter_haglaz_variant.svg"><img src="../img/runes/hagalaz.svg" alt="Hagalaz rune" title="Hagalaz rune"></a></p>
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<h1>Hagalaz</h1>
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<p>Traditional meaning: hail</p>
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<p>Meanings when upright:</p>
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<li>spiritual descent</li>
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<li>deep roots of Yewiffe</li>
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<li>repressed memories</li>
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<li>winter/darkness/silence</li>
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<li>water</li>
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<li>creative destruction</li>
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<p>Meanings when inverted:</p>
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<li>sky-scraping branches of Yewiffe</li>
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<li>a bright sunny future</li>
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<p>Hagalaz can be useful for:</p>
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<li>shadow work</li>
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<li>absorbing negative energy</li>
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<li>connecting with the dead</li>
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<li>sifting through the past</li>
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<li>creating disruptions</li>
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<p>Anglo-Saxon rune poem:</p>
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<blockquote>Hægl byþ hwitust corna;<br>hwyrft hit of heofones lyfte,<br>wealcaþ hit windes scura;<br>weorþeþ hit to wætere syððan.</blockquote>
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Hail is the whitest of grain;<br>it is whirled from the vault of heaven<br>and is tossed about by gusts of wind<br>and then it melts into water.</blockquote>
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<p>Norwegian rune poem:</p>
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<blockquote>Hagall er kaldastr korna;<br>Kristr skóp hæimenn forna.</blockquote>
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<blockquote>Hail is the coldest of grain;<br>Christ created the world of old.</blockquote>
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<p>A modern poem:</p>
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<p>Blow the ashes in their eyes,<br/>
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the gentle breath they do despise.<br/>
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The hail comes down, delivered by the wind<br/>
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you said was my wealth, my dividend.</p>
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<p>I cannot help who I am,<br/>
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or what I have become.<br/>
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And who I have turned into<br/>
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is a gleaming no one,<br/>
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nobody at all.</p>
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<p>You told me<br/>
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we were<br/>
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stagnating.</p>
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<p>Self-baptismal in just-thawed lake<br/>
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I had just enough strength to break<br/>
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the surface of, watch the ice shatter<br/>
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like that which gave birth to you: the mirror.<br/>
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You swore to be my eternal blue,<br/>
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and my skin now swears by the same hue,<br/>
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lake draining into a trickle of a stream<br/>
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that, if followed, will drain into Yewiffe,</p>
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<p>into a root of midnight hands<br/>
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and walking home from shift at the grill<br/>
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wondering, what if I, feral, disappeared<br/>
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into those lonely snow-blanketed lands<br/>
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that bordered me at every turn?<br/>
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Highway headlights also a stream<br/>
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draining into boundless woods<br/>
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where I easily could swear I would<br/>
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disappear with you as if in a dream.</p>
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<p>Sablade, I promised, would be cloaked<br/>
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in sunny promising eternal spring,<br/>
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but the thought of ever losing you bades me<br/>
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to accept hail's cloak, frozen sleeping.</p>
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</blockquote>
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<title>Nauthiz</title>
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<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Runic_letter_naudiz.svg"><img src="../img/runes/nauthiz.svg" alt="Nauthiz rune" title="Nauthiz rune"></a></p>
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<h1>Nauthiz</h1>
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<p>Traditional meaning: need</p>
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<p>Meanings when upright:</p>
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<ul>
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<li>desperation</li>
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<li>desperate courage</li>
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<li>tight binding/locking</li>
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<li>perseverance despite emotional turmoil or pain</li>
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<li>resilience</li>
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<li>loyalty despite difficulties</li>
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<li>courage to ask for help</li>
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</ul>
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<p>Nauthiz can be useful for:</p>
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<ul>
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<li>continuing on despite pain</li>
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<li>eliminating hate and strife</li>
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<li>recognizing/acknowledging your personal needs</li>
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</ul>
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<hr>
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<p>Anglo-Saxon rune poem:</p>
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<blockquote>Nyd byþ nearu on breostan; weorþeþ hi þeah oft niþa bearnum<br>to helpe and to hæle gehwæþre, gif hi his hlystaþ æror.</blockquote>
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<blockquote>
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Trouble is oppressive to the heart;<br>yet often it proves a source of help and salvation<br>to the children of men, to everyone who heeds it betimes.</blockquote>
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<p>Norwegian rune poem:</p>
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<blockquote>Nauðr gerer næppa koste;<br>nøktan kælr í froste.</blockquote>
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<blockquote>Constraint gives scant choice;<br>a naked man is chilled by the frost.</blockquote>
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<p>A modern poem:</p>
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<blockquote>
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<p>What was once a tiny candle<br/>
|
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now burns brighter<br/>
|
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than the flames of hell.</p>
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<p>The blood boils in my veins,<br/>
|
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an altar to nobody set ablaze.<br/>
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I'm straining my neck to peer up high<br/>
|
||||
at the furious one who gave me life.</p>
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<p>Or, rather, took it away<br/>
|
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several times, each molded into a different shape,<br/>
|
||||
and assumes just because she designed the mold<br/>
|
||||
means she forever has the right to me control.</p>
|
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<p>Ironically, deep down in the dirt<br/>
|
||||
of the lowest roots of Yewiffe<br/>
|
||||
is so painfully bright<br/>
|
||||
that I feel I could go blind<br/>
|
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at any moment, limbs in agreement<br/>
|
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that to even move a twitch is to hurt.<br/>
|
||||
How nice it would be to lie down and sleep...</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Legs stumble, steady arm<br/>
|
||||
around my shoulders<br/>
|
||||
keeping me upright.<br/>
|
||||
"We've come so far,<br/>
|
||||
Lethe. Just one more time<br/>
|
||||
I have to ask you to bloody<br/>
|
||||
your hands, whatever, claws,<br/>
|
||||
and fight."</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Your hand finds mine.<br/>
|
||||
I don't want to die,<br/>
|
||||
I think. I don't want to write<br/>
|
||||
you off as a lost cause<br/>
|
||||
like you once did yourself,<br/>
|
||||
you, yourself, me,<br/>
|
||||
turned your back in abandoning<br/>
|
||||
that winter cave not too long ago.<br/>
|
||||
My hand in yours, counting heartbeats<br/>
|
||||
as you threw yourself into dreamless sleep.<br/>
|
||||
Hopeless you thought you, yourself.<br/>
|
||||
Until one day came a change of heart:<br/>
|
||||
"Lethe, I can't do this alone.<br/>
|
||||
The living, I mean.<br/>
|
||||
Please <em>help me.</em>"</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>So many shattered souls for which I must atone.<br/>
|
||||
My weight on your shoulders,<br/>
|
||||
mountain rising<br/>
|
||||
to meet the blurry all-sun sky.<br/>
|
||||
Palm pals, sunny future<br/>
|
||||
with our fingers intertwined,<br/>
|
||||
the tree branches of Yewiffe hopelessly reaching high.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>"The present feeds off the corpse of the past<br/>
|
||||
when from the hope of a future it is shorn.<br/>
|
||||
I have come to end the cycle of puppets.<br/>
|
||||
I have come to make myself reborn."</p>
|
||||
</blockquote>
|
||||
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|
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<title>Isa</title>
|
||||
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Runic_letter_isaz.svg"><img src="../img/runes/isa.svg" alt="Isa rune" title="Isa rune"></a></p>
|
||||
<h1>Isa</h1>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Traditional meaning: ice</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Meanings when upright:</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<ul>
|
||||
<li>stillness and quiet</li>
|
||||
<li>silent contemplation</li>
|
||||
<li>the world that sleeps within</li>
|
||||
<li>boundaries of the soul</li>
|
||||
<li>individuation</li>
|
||||
<li>abeyance / temporary respite</li>
|
||||
</ul>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Meanings when inverted:</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<ul>
|
||||
<li>reclusion</li>
|
||||
<li>emotional coldness</li>
|
||||
<li>a situation with no change in sight</li>
|
||||
<li>stagnation</li>
|
||||
</ul>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Isa can be useful for:</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<ul>
|
||||
<li>finding a quiet place to concentrate</li>
|
||||
<li>casting a personal shield</li>
|
||||
<li>guarding against soul loss</li>
|
||||
</ul>
|
||||
|
||||
<hr>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Anglo-Saxon rune poem:</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<blockquote>
|
||||
Is byþ ofereald, ungemetum slidor,<br>glisnaþ glæshluttur gimmum gelicust,<br>flor forste geworuht, fæger ansyne.</blockquote>
|
||||
|
||||
<blockquote>Ice is very cold and immeasurably slippery;<br>it glistens as clear as glass and most like to gems;<br>it is a floor wrought by the frost, fair to look upon.</blockquote>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Norwegian rune poem:</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<blockquote>Ís ko,llum brú bræiða;<br>blindan þarf at læiða.</blockquote>
|
||||
|
||||
<blockquote>Ice we call the broad bridge;<br>the blind man must be led.</blockquote>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>A modern poem:</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<blockquote>
|
||||
<p>Metaclysma,<br/>
|
||||
inter-world void.<br/>
|
||||
No touch, no voice,<br/>
|
||||
silhouette of black,<br/>
|
||||
all other senses in lack.<br/>
|
||||
Just eternal light.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>I come to with limbs bound tight<br/>
|
||||
in open silk-lined coffin.<br/>
|
||||
Space between flight<br/>
|
||||
from Eris's explosion<br/>
|
||||
into metaclysma and now<br/>
|
||||
left unwritten, just as blank.<br/>
|
||||
Lights made dim as to not stain<br/>
|
||||
my vision with a single face<br/>
|
||||
of clergy self-proclaimed<br/>
|
||||
caretakers, unworthy to be named.<br/>
|
||||
To them, I think, I am a saint,<br/>
|
||||
a goddess who made sacrifice<br/>
|
||||
to give them this world that once was spring<br/>
|
||||
but now sleeps under blanket of ice.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Tomorrow steeps my Holiday<br/>
|
||||
where come commoners to pray<br/>
|
||||
to the casket where I've lain<br/>
|
||||
these five years, apparently,<br/>
|
||||
for grace<br/>
|
||||
or their fates to change.<br/>
|
||||
Body strewn over a bed<br/>
|
||||
in a darkened room, rubbing<br/>
|
||||
my limbs to regain<br/>
|
||||
five years of feeling,<br/>
|
||||
halfway sedate<br/>
|
||||
to keep aches from constructing<br/>
|
||||
a tower in my head.<br/>
|
||||
Maybe they wanted to reach the empty heavens<br/>
|
||||
too, drop a rock to bust open the frozen canyons.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Jett,<br/>
|
||||
I had not the strength<br/>
|
||||
to your gentle hand hold on.<br/>
|
||||
I suppose<br/>
|
||||
I can only hope<br/>
|
||||
you're haunting somewhere in these halls,<br/>
|
||||
found a way these five years to cope<br/>
|
||||
with this world I made for you but did not survive<br/>
|
||||
to share. I think, unless I am deceived, I am alive<br/>
|
||||
now, again, yours forever.<br/>
|
||||
If you'll still have me as your wife.<br/>
|
||||
If you'll still live with me on that mountainside.</p>
|
||||
</blockquote>
|
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