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+<title>Kenaz</title>
+<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>
+<h1>Kenaz</h1>
+
+<p>Traditional meaning: ulcer, torch</p>
+
+<p>Meanings when upright:</p>
+
+<ul>
+	<li>mental dexterity</li>
+	<li>shape-shifting</li>
+	<li>fruition of ideas</li>
+	<li>teachers and education</li>
+	<li>light in the darkness</li>
+</ul>
+
+<p>Meanings when inverted:</p>
+
+<ul>
+	<li>creative block</li>
+	<li>illness</li>
+	<li>something that will get worse if unattended</li>
+</ul>
+
+<p>Kenaz can be useful for:</p>
+
+<ul>
+	<li>manifesting intellectual endeavors / creative inspiration</li>
+	<li>warding away negative energy</li>
+	<li>reducing anger or making it useful</li>
+	<li>ancestor work</li>
+	<li>healing through regeneration</li>
+</ul>
+
+<hr>
+
+<p>Anglo-Saxon rune poem:</p>
+
+<blockquote>Cen byþ cwicera gehwam, cuþ on fyre<br>blac ond beorhtlic, byrneþ oftust<br>ðær hi æþelingas inne restaþ.</blockquote>
+
+<blockquote>The torch is known to every living man by its pale, bright flame;<br>it always burns where princes sit within. </blockquote>
+
+<p>Norwegian rune poem:</p>
+
+<blockquote>Kaun er barna bo,lvan;<br>bo,l gørver nán fo,lvan.</blockquote>
+
+<blockquote>Ulcer is fatal to children;<br>death makes a corpse pale.</blockquote>
+
+<p>A modern poem:</p>
+
+<blockquote>
+	<p>The three strains<br/>
+	of blood<br/>
+	that run<br/>
+	in my veins<br/>
+	I'm not sure<br/>
+	how to balance,<br/>
+	precarious<br/>
+	in ability to be lured<br/>
+	to act against my better will,<br/>
+	to with claws or jagged sharps destroy<br/>
+	what I with my power would rather employ<br/>
+	to birth this world, to with gentler things fill.</p>
+
+	<p>Through the Veil made a careful incision<br/>
+	to cast off my mental fog's saddle<br/>
+	and declare, "You and I are palm pals,"<br/>
+	only our hands sketched in my vision<br/>
+	until the world came back flooding<br/>
+	and the Veil bade you scream goodbye<br/>
+	and vow to come back a later time<br/>
+	even closer to me.<br/>
+	Not this rune you presented<br/>
+	but others, half inverted<br/>
+	to explain the meaning<br/>
+	I could not myself perceive:</p>
+
+	<p>"If the roots at the very bottom of Yewiffe<br/>
+	are memories bitter and repressed,<br/>
+	then what bright futures, what shared nests<br/>
+	lie nestled at the top of its canopy?</p>
+
+	<p>I'd gladly spend the rest of my life<br/>
+	keeping you rational and in your own skin,<br/>
+	safe and sound, tranquil, peaceful within<br/>
+	if together in one of those branches we reside."</p>
+
+	<p>I don't know what I ever did to deserve<br/>
+	this light in the darkness, impassioned words,<br/>
+	but it I have somehow earned,<br/>
+	my lilac spring, my fierce godsend.</p>
+
+	<p>Look at my friends,<br/>
+	my allies,<br/>
+	the love of my life:</p>
+
+	<p>I was never really alone,<br/>
+	was I?</p>
+</blockquote>