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- #4 8 20 Nov 86 12:05:56 (RECV'D)
- From: L.a. Hussey To: Brad Hicks
- Subj: Samhain
-
- Woops! I was wrong, I do have a Samhain ritual. It's only a small one
- (for 4 close friends), so I didn't remember it, but it's quite nice
- nonetheless. I'm going to upload it here, and you can get it how you like.
-
-
- [older woman to older man]:
- One-eye, Wanderer, God of wisdom,
- Hunt-lord, hail, who leads the hosting!
- Nine nights hanging, knowledge gaining,
- Cloaked at crossroads, council hidden.
- Now the night, your time, is near us --
- Right roads send us on, Rune-winner.
-
- [older man to older woman]:
- Every age your eye has witnessed;
- Cauldron-Keeper, hail wise Crone!
- Rede in riddles is your ration --
- Wyrd-weaving at the World-tree's root.
- Eldest ancient, all-knowing one,
- Speak secrets to us, send us vision.
-
- [younger woman to younger man]:
- Lord of Life, hail Land-Master!
- God of grain that grows and dies
- And rises reborn, full of richness;
- Fallow fields shall yet be fertile --
- Spring sap runs as stirs your phallus
- Bless barren earth, let it bear again!
-
- [younger man to younger woman]:
- Snow-shoes striding, hail swift Huntress!
- Wild one, free and willful Goddess
- Bow and blade you bear beside you,
- Finding food to fend off hunger --
- Winter will not leave us wanting;
- Give good hunting, grant us skill.
-
- USHERING IN THE NEW YEAR:
-
- Welcome winter, waning season,
- Now with night the new year comes;
- Hail the horse's head with blessings --
- Blessings be on those who bide here
- And indeed on all the world!
-
- SCRYING:
-
- Wide are the worldgates,
- Sights to be sent us;
- Ready for rede-gifts,
- We wait for your wisdom.
-
- OFFERINGS/THANKSGIVING:
-
- Grateful, we give now, gifts of our own
- Heart-work and hand-work the hearth shall grace;
- Happiness, harmony, health in the new year,
- Send to the world and we in it, we wish you.
-
- DISMISSAL/OPENING:
-
- To watching winds we wish fair travelling;
- To sleepless dead sweet rest we send;
- Gods and Godesses, go with praises --
- See: the circle is severed thus. [cut with sword at east]
-
-
- I wrote that ritual for David, myself, and two friends who are older than
- we. It was the first ritual that I wrote not based on NROOGD material in
- any way, but on entirely original structure and material. The horse's
- skull is a primitive form of the Mari Lwyd (Grey Mare/Mary), a Welsh folk
- traditional hobby horse that goes from house to house at the calendar New
- Year, but she's such a bizzare and macabre beast that she was almost
- certainly a Samhain leftover. There's interesting material about her in
- Trefor Owen's WELSH FOLK CUSTOMS (which is probably out of print, but I
- could provide photocopies for interested parties who provide copying
- costs...)
-
- Happy Samhain!
- Leigh Ann
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