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his hearer, the young prince Agnarr, to the kingship.
Kenaz governs the primal craft of the smith and all works of knowledge crafted into action. Its
work is that of cleansing followed by transformation, as the verse of the Havamal writes forth, telling
how the energy of a woe-working spell can be reshaped to work woe to one’s foeman and weal to oneself.
Although the smith/king initiation seems to be a work of males, the workings of the mound belong
to the necklace-adorned earth-goddess who was originally called Nerthus and later became Freyja,
“Lady.” This goddess ruled the twin workings of death and fruitfulness, as will be spoken of later under
Berkano. The rune kenaz shows the fire of Freyja’s sexuality (fehu) given shape by the wit and craft of
the smith. This relationship is best written forth in the tale of Freyja’s buying of the necklace/girdle
Brisingamen (Fire- necklace), center of much of her might. Freyja saw four dwarves forging the necklace
of gold and bought it from them at the price of four nights of her love, which is to say that she gave them
the fiery might in the form of sexual power with which they were able to bring forth the necklace to its
final being.
Kenaz is the power of fehu controlled and used for shaping. It is the rune of unmaking for the sake
of remaking. It is used for all acts of artistic shaping, in which the vision, or fire, must break down the
raw gold of the earthly material and reshape it into the vision-image set forth in earthly being. Used by
the experienced magician, kenaz is the rune which releases the spirit into the realms of power, as written
forth in the lay of Volundr and Grimnismal.
Kenaz is used for mastery over the sexual energies, often in conjunction with the other fire-runes. It
may also be called upon for guiding emotional power to achieve a goal and to shape the feelings of
others.
Being closely tied to the inherited right of kingship and the mound in which the dead ancestors
dwell, kenaz is one of the runes useful in testing and bringing forth those powers which have passed down
to you either from the ancestors of your body or from earlier lifetimes. This use is written of in the story
of Ottar, in which Freyja makes the cave-dwelling witch Hyndla tell all the names of Ottar’s line so that
her lover may gain his rightful might. Kenaz is the source of the bright charisma burning like a torch
within the true leader,[2] the rune of the king.
As the rune of the fire within the mound, kenaz is also associated with the dragon or wyrm, the
coiling wight of Wyrd’s hidden workings.
The woe-working side of kenaz’s being is disintegration without reintegration, or unguided
shaping, shown forth as rotting sickness or as tumors and cancer.
In ritual workings, kenaz may be seen as the torch or candle which is a sign of the controlled fire of
the vitki’s will through all the realms in which he/she is working.
Used with other runes, kenaz aids the vitki in shaping their power and selecting the sides of their
being on which she/he wants to call.
The stones associated with kenaz are flint, the primal source of human craftsmanship and mastery
over fire; fire agate and fire opal which aid the control and use of sexual power and raise creativity; and
smoky quartz, also used with eihwaz.
Kenaz: Meditation
You stand on the northern side of a mound at sunset, dressed in a white tunic and carrying a round
shield and longsword. At your right hand, the sky glows red and gold around the sinking sun; at your left,
it is already dark. One star shines brightly from the deepening blue above you. It is the evening star, the
star of Freyja. The mound is not much taller than your head, a rounded heap of stones overgrown with
thick grass.
As the last rim of the red sun sinks below the horizon, a dark opening appears before you. The hole
in the mound is barely large enough for you to crawl into with weapon and shield held before your body.
The stones lining the way are harsh and cold as death against your bare knees. At the end of the long
passage you see a glow as of red gold lit by fire. A steamlike hissing like an overheated bellows sounds
around you.
As you near the end of the passage, you see that it opens out into a great round chamber, filled with
all sorts of cunningly worked golden treasures: cups, bracelets glittering with rubies and emeralds,
necklaces, and statuettes, each gleaming in the light of little flames which leap about them. In the middle
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