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58 Creating Circles & Ceremonies 35. To the Triple Goddess Koré, Corn Maiden Crescent Moon arise! Bless us by Your presence, Silvering the skies! Demeter, All-Mother, By Your loving touch Bless us in Your service, Whom we love so much! Grandmother Spider Woman, Weave the living Web! Bless the tides that are our lives, The flowing and the ebb! —Morning Glory Zell 2. Goddess Invocation -T he Maiden 38. Holy Maiden Oh Holy maiden of the kindling quick Of merging mist and mazing echo The innocent bounty of the trees Bares your faerie flesh of Wildness, Wonder, Magic, Mirth and Love… Your beauty seals our bridal with all Life. The dance of your green pulse unfolds All bodies from Earth’s fragrant form. Evoé Koré! —Frederick MacLauren Adams, 1968 3. Goddess Invocations -T he Mother 39. Evocation of the Goddess in the name of the earth, and the sun, and the rainbow which bridges them. 1 your counsel is in the cowrie you engrave sand dollars with your runes you flower forth in daisies and teach oaks to twist in the sun cows learn from you to lick their calves women to spin flax and clay the yeasty moon to double and the sky to turn 2 at dusk, in my kitchen i strip the onion of its layers gouge out potatoe’s eyes hack off the carrot’s head forgive me this violence i am blood of your blood this is my body, too and my sister the pomegranate is the kiss of my mouth 3 lover, sweet lady couch your love in my mother tongue speak me the language of mirrors show me how to maiden you, mother you, crone you, as you, at my flesh’s altar, do to me 4 mother, i swear by my navel how i swam like a fish in your underground lake sister, our lyric round of tide, phase, and the womb’s atlantis overlays endlessly charms the world out of time daughter, i’d feed you at my veins if my breasts ran dry or bury me in the wheatfield where i’ll rot patiently under your breakfast and my corpuscles will crumble into vitamins you need 5 architect of the cell’s alphabet navigator of blood’s latitudes keeper of the archives of fire my heritage unwinds inside me uncoils like a long galaxy through the dark nucleoplasm like a snake gone opaque she hides in the jungles of the chromosome she lies at the hydrocarbon’s heart she is the black hole itself between her thighs the universe is squeezed from spirit —Oothoon, Ostara, 1975
Book I: T he Magick Circle 59 40. Hymn to Gaia When o’er your dreaming hills the dawning day ignites its fire, And on your seas the light’s caress awakens wind and spray, Your breath bids bud and branch push forth to echo your desire, And in a womb a heart begins your rhythmic hymn to play, The eye that opens upon itself, an eye that’s opened before, Seeks knowledge deep with each repeat, the better to adore. So Yes! Yes! to the beating heart, That echoes the surge of the sea, And sends blood’s course With primal force, Urged on by the will to be. And Yes! Yes! to the pulse that flows, The stream of life’s rebirth, The sacred flame intones your name, Oh Gaia, soul of the Earth. When out of seed and spore and shoot and egg your song is raised, From lovers’ bliss your holy kiss awakens flesh anew, To search and feel, and to behold, and find a voice for praise, And then to sing beneath your sky one sacred hymn to you. A song of life begat from death that only life may give, Begins and ends with one refrain that heralds the ages—I’ll live! So Yes! Yes! to the song of life, Where all the voices are one, The pulse and beat that all repeat, What’s ended is begun. And Yes! Yes! to the quick’ning heart, That bids the darkness be spurned, A wild tattoo that shouts anew, Great Goddess, I have returned! You dance upon the spiral stair of chromosome and gene, Oh soft of eye and red of maw, you pare and prune the tree. In many forms I’ve sung your song, through many eyes I’ve seen, In many forms I’ll wake again, more fully yours to be. Many’s the dance I’ve danced with you, one round a pale, cold mask, The next a glow in a mother’s eye as into Earth I’m cast. So Yes! Yes! to the dance of death, Oh Kali, devour me whole, Take me home, consume my bones, And sing your song to my soul. And Yes! Yes! to the wheel of life, Oh Isis restore me anew. Return my breath to laugh at death, And revel, oh Gaia, in you. When from your warm embrace I’m torn, in fields of stars to dwell, Your voice, a sigh on cosmic dust, calls after your lover “return,” “Embrace my green and loam-filled breast, drink of my scented well, Ignite my fire with love’s desire, shout through my winds, ‘return,’” Then longing for my lover’s arms will call me back to you, And in a cloak of soil-born flesh I’ll swear my troth anew, And Yes! Yes! I will dance with you, And forsake the fields of stars, And plunge me deep In the Earth to keep, My vow to Lady and Lord, And Yes! Yes! I will live again, And ensoul the living Earth, At my mother’s breast, In the hour of death, I pledge you my rebirth! —Tom Williams 41. T he Charge of the Star-Goddess Hear ye the words of the Star Goddess, The dust of whose feet are the hosts of heaven; She whose body encircles the universe: I am the beauty of the green Earth, And the white Moon among the stars, And the mystery of the waters, And the desire of human hearts. Call unto your soul: Arise and come unto me!
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58 <strong>Creating</strong> <strong>Circles</strong> & <strong>Ceremonies</strong><br />
35. To the Triple Goddess<br />
Koré, Corn Maiden<br />
Crescent Moon arise!<br />
Bless us by Your presence,<br />
Silvering the skies!<br />
Demeter, <strong>All</strong>-Mother,<br />
By Your loving touch<br />
Bless us in Your service,<br />
Whom we love so much!<br />
Gr<strong>and</strong>mother Spider Woman,<br />
Weave the living Web!<br />
Bless the tides that are our lives,<br />
The flowing <strong>and</strong> the ebb!<br />
—Morning Glory Zell<br />
2. Goddess Invocation<br />
-T he Maiden<br />
38. Holy Maiden<br />
Oh Holy maiden of the kindling quick<br />
Of merging mist <strong>and</strong> mazing echo<br />
The innocent bounty of the trees<br />
Bares your faerie flesh of Wildness,<br />
Wonder, Magic, Mirth <strong>and</strong> Love…<br />
Your beauty seals our bridal with all Life.<br />
The dance of your green pulse unfolds<br />
<strong>All</strong> bodies from Earth’s fragrant <strong>for</strong>m.<br />
Evoé Koré!<br />
—Frederick MacLauren Adams, 1968<br />
3. Goddess Invocations<br />
-T he Mother<br />
39. Evocation of the Goddess<br />
in the name of the earth, <strong>and</strong> the sun,<br />
<strong>and</strong> the rainbow which bridges them.<br />
1<br />
your counsel is in the cowrie<br />
you engrave s<strong>and</strong> dollars with your runes<br />
you flower <strong>for</strong>th in daisies<br />
<strong>and</strong> teach oaks to twist in the sun<br />
cows learn from you to lick their calves<br />
women to spin flax <strong>and</strong> clay<br />
the yeasty moon to double<br />
<strong>and</strong> the sky to turn<br />
2<br />
at dusk, in my kitchen<br />
i strip the onion of its layers<br />
gouge out potatoe’s eyes<br />
hack off the carrot’s head<br />
<strong>for</strong>give me this violence<br />
i am blood of your blood<br />
this is my body, too<br />
<strong>and</strong> my sister the pomegranate<br />
is the kiss of my mouth<br />
3<br />
lover, sweet lady<br />
couch your love in my mother tongue<br />
speak me the language of mirrors<br />
show me how to maiden you, mother you,<br />
crone you, as you, at my flesh’s altar,<br />
do to me<br />
4<br />
mother, i swear by my navel<br />
how i swam like a fish<br />
in your underground lake<br />
sister, our lyric round<br />
of tide, phase, <strong>and</strong> the womb’s atlantis<br />
overlays endlessly<br />
charms the world out of time<br />
daughter, i’d feed you at my veins<br />
if my breasts ran dry<br />
or bury me in the wheatfield<br />
where i’ll rot patiently under your breakfast<br />
<strong>and</strong> my corpuscles will crumble<br />
into vitamins you need<br />
5<br />
architect of the cell’s alphabet<br />
navigator of blood’s latitudes<br />
keeper of the archives of fire<br />
my heritage unwinds inside me<br />
uncoils like a long galaxy<br />
through the dark nucleoplasm<br />
like a snake gone opaque<br />
she hides in the jungles of the chromosome<br />
she lies at the hydrocarbon’s heart<br />
she is the black hole itself<br />
between her thighs<br />
the universe is squeezed from spirit<br />
—Oothoon, Ostara, 1975
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