Name: The Torch
Duration: P00H03M16S
Description: Kenaz symbolizes the torch, fire, and learning. I wrote this song, coincidentally, on the feast of Imbolc, or some call it Brigit's Day, and fire/the forge are important symbols for this festival. I felt this called for a chant.

The Torch

from Rune Songs Volume 1 by Cathy McManamon

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Kenaz symbolizes the torch, fire, and learning. I wrote this song, coincidentally, on the feast of Imbolc, or some call it Brigit's Day, and fire/the forge are important symbols for this festival. I felt this called for a chant.

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The torch, it brings us illumination
Dancing flames are the heat of life
Sacrifice for the forge and forming
All creation is bathed in light

Bonfires burn in the sacred woodland
Fun'ral pyres 'cross the water glide
Lovers join in their passion blinding
All creation is bathed in light

Candles burning
Come, the initiated
Feel your will to
Shape all that is created

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from Rune Songs Volume 1, released February 1, 2019
Lyrics & music by Cathy McManamon
Acoustic guitar, vocals - Cathy McManamon
Vocals - Jason Neerenberg
Fire - Alexander James Adams

Recorded by Ravenslake Music Productions
Engineered by Protective Pines Studio

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Cathy McManamon Chicago, Illinois

Cathy is a singer/songwriter/guitarist/drummer in Chicago who occasionally performs solo, but more often in the Pegasus Award-winning duo Random Fractions (with Jason Neerenberg. She is the former drummer for the filk rock band Toyboat.

Cathy is also a studio musician and arranger for Canticles Productions & Dreamflight Theatrical Gymnastics, a drum circle facilitator, and a guitar teacher. ... more

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