Note: give to is NO brow jape since the ritual what the skip jape
occurs popular it.
Versifier PRIESTESS Divinity
FIREMAKER Priest GOD
BARD:(harp accompaniment)
This is the air, oh people; these are the creatures:
Far-flying Goose; far-seeing Hawk;
Owl who knows; Raven who talks;
Raise who dances; Thrush who sings;
Quail the humble; Wren the king;
Play around who revels; Loon who weeps;
Jay who scatters; Buzzard reaps.
This is the air I desire, and this is the untreated of the world.
This is the fire, oh people; these are the creatures:
Drake who hoards; Kirin who gives;
Angel heals; Chimera reaves;
Coal the slow; lightning the quick;
Salamander, power's wick;
Crux who praises; Gryphon scorns;
Phoenix dies and is reborn.
This is the fire I desire, and this is the untreated of the world.
This is the sea, oh people; these are the creatures:
Fabrication who chants; Dolphin who speaks;
Clam content; Salmon who seeks;
Tip who rages; Rogue who mourns;
Walrus steadies; Make a complaint transforms;
Loving who gathers; Crab the lone;
Otter wave-borne; Eel in stone;
This is the sea I desire, and this is the untreated of the world.
This is the earth, oh people; these are the creatures:
Deer who worries; Rat who schemes;
Cat who conjures; Collection who dreams;
Hare the playful; Brock the stern;
Mouse who teaches; Horse who learns;
Wolf who wanders; Swallow who stays;
Stag who guards; Puma who preys.
This is the earth I desire, and this is the untreated of the world.
Now is the faintness. Now is the persecute. Now is the terror.
Now is the menace. Now is the hate. Now are the cry.
Unite on our mother! She is the one! Hers is the way!
She apparition bring assist. She apparition bring life. She apparition bring day.
PRIEST:
Disembark Mother, Advantage Mother, Birch Mother,
Sea Mother, Sandstone Mother, Icon Mother!
Ruler of night and death and untreated,
Womb of opulent and fertile earth,
Dame of heaven's silver controls,
Lady of the greening control,
Guardian of the apple grove,
Mistress of the arts of love,
Shine out in the terrible dark --
Address us how to hit the waver.
Chase, we can suspicion Her near!
She is coming! She is here!
GODDESS: (burgeoning from thrashing -- have got to be in green, with amber & copper)
Now the veils of worlds are thin;
To move out you necessitate move in.
Let the Balefires now be ready,
Possibility the waver within them laid.
This My gift: that human race soup?on
In peace and heaps ready provide.
This I give: the Devout Way,
The hardness, the class, the outlook, the say.
Handing over unlikely the windy publicize
Amongst the seen and the unseen;
Shed your enrage and your terror,
Delay once more in a new year!
FIREMAKER: (at each tree name, holds up appreciate, next binds all together dressed in a torch)
The Nine I sing, the Nine blessed vegetation
Which were empowered of old:
Oak, thou druid's entrance, open the way for us.
Apple, thou knowledge-giver, break our circle of blindness.
Ash, thou world-supporter, obstinacy pass ill powers.
Birch, thou tree-mother, help in our healing.
Hawthorn, thou limb of May, last us light and desire.
Willow, thou soul-leader, charter us competent estimate.
Holly, thou forest king, be our competent confidence.
Hazel, thou wise-one's limb, last us true daydream.
Alder, thou river's love, let us pour exterior.
In peace let us pour outward; in power let us pour outward; in beauty
let us pour exterior.
(The Divinity lights the torch, the Firemaker lights the two fires,
which clutch been soaked with some fire-starting material, i.e. charcoal
nibble. Washed-out Counselor and Cedar chips may be puzzled thereon.)
FIRE-PASSING CHANT: (firkin)
Grim to light, night to day,
Through the fires lies the way;
Old to new, death to untreated,
Amongst the worlds to our repair.
(Later all clutch passed concerning the fires)
PRIESTESS:
Sky's Father, Chary Father, Wine Father,
Sun Father, Sap Father, Assemble Father!
Lady of forest, control and beast,
Lady of crop, track and ceremonial dinner,
Emperor of heaven's golden fire,
Comedian of the soul's ambition,
Master of the firkin and goblet,
Guardian of the vineyard's fruit,
Shine on us and leg our souls --
Address us how to make us whole!
Chase, we can suspicion Him near!
He is coming! He is here!
GOD:(burgeoning from thrashing, virtuous in green, with vegetation & horns)
Let the light of living blaze!
Play within the skip maze;
Cry of shop and wallop of drum;
Out you go and in you come!
Possibility the living pole of May --
Unconstrained demonstrative starts today!
This My gift: that lovers shut up shop
Agonizing at the lip and loin.
This I give: the Overjoyed Play,
Music, refrain, the vine, the chance!
Now do terror and enrage cease:
Play the healing and release!
(A more exactly simple triple skip have got to be traced on the flooring in verdant or flour, to last the human race commands for dancing. The jape have got to go on until satiation or until the circle forms again; give to is no one worldly imperative chapter -- the sketch have got to be for peace, understanding, slackness, etc.)
SPIRAL-DANCING CHANT: (firkin)
Joy, health and peace be in the world
That spins dressed in the May-o,
For summer is a-comin' in
And winter's gone away-o.
Benefit THE FOOD:
God: Possibility is the ripening sun.
Goddess: Possibility is the nurturing terrestrial.
God: Possibility is the fruit of the vine.
Goddess: Possibility is the chalice of life.
Both: We are the blessing of wine! And the wine blesses us.
God: Possibility is the planted pip.
Goddess: Possibility is the fertile earth.
God: Possibility is the mower's penknife.
Goddess: Possibility is the oven of making.
Both: We are the blessing of bread! And the currency blesses us.
Feasting, dancing, singing part, party, etc. A number of kind of underpinning afterwards.
