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64 lines
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A SAMHAIN RITUAL
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[older woman to older man]:
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One-eye, Wanderer, God of wisdom,
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Hunt-lord, hail, who leads the hosting!
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Nine nights hanging, knowledge gaining,
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Cloaked at crossroads, council hidden.
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Now the night, your time, is near us --
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Right roads send us on, Rune-winner.
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[older man to older woman]:
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Every age your eye has witnessed;
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Cauldron-Keeper, hail wise Crone!
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Rede in riddles is your ration --
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Wyrd-weaving at the World-tree's root.
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Eldest ancient, all-knowing one,
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Speak secrets to us, send us vision.
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[younger woman to younger man]:
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Lord of Life, hail Land-Master!
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God of grain that grows and dies
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And rises reborn, full of richness;
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Fallow fields shall yet be fertile --
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Spring sap runs as stirs your phallus
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Bless barren earth, let it bear again!
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[younger man to younger woman]:
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Snow-shoes striding, hail swift Huntress!
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Wild one, free and willful Goddess
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Bow and blade you bear beside you,
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Finding food to fend off hunger --
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Winter will not leave us wanting;
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Give good hunting, grant us skill.
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USHERING IN THE NEW YEAR:
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Welcome winter, waning season,
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Now with night the new year comes;
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Hail the horse's head with blessings --
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Blessings be on those who bide here
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And indeed on all the world!
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SCRYING:
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Wide are the worldgates,
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Sights to be sent us;
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Ready for rede-gifts,
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We wait for your wisdom.
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OFFERINGS/THANKSGIVING:
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Grateful, we give now, gifts of our own
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Heart-work and hand-work the hearth shall grace;
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Happiness, harmony, health in the new year,
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Send to the world and we in it, we wish you.
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DISMISSAL/OPENING:
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To watching winds we wish fair travelling;
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To sleepless dead sweet rest we send;
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Gods and Godesses, go with praises --
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See: the circle is severed thus. [cut with sword at east]
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The horse's skull is a primitive form of the Mari Lwyd (Grey Mare/Mary),
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a Welsh folk traditional hobby horse that goes from house to house at
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the calendar New Year, but she's such a bizzare and macabre beast that
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she was almost certainly a Samhain leftover. There's interesting
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material about her in Trefor Owen's WELSH FOLK CUSTOMS.
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