{"collection":"bos","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bos/bos007.htm","path":"bos/bos007.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bos/bos007.htm","text":"Internet Book of Shadows, (Various Authors), [1999]\n[older woman to older man]:\nOne-eye, Wanderer, God of wisdom,\nHunt-lord, hail, who leads the hosting!\nNine nights hanging, knowledge gaining,\nCloaked at crossroads, council hidden.\nNow the night, your time, is near us --\nRight roads send us on, Rune-winner.\n[older man to older woman]:\nEvery age your eye has witnessed;\nCauldron-Keeper, hail wise Crone!\nRede in riddles is your ration --\nWyrd-weaving at the World-tree's root.\nEldest ancient, all-knowing one,\nSpeak secrets to us, send us vision.\n[younger woman to younger man]:\nLord of Life, hail Land-Master!\nGod of grain that grows and dies\nAnd rises reborn, full of richness;\nFallow fields shall yet be fertile --\nSpring sap runs as stirs your phallus\nBless barren earth, let it bear again!\n[younger man to younger woman]:\nSnow-shoes striding, hail swift Huntress!\nWild one, free and willful Goddess\nBow and blade you bear beside you,\nFinding food to fend off hunger --\nWinter will not leave us wanting;\nGive good hunting, grant us skill.\nWelcome winter, waning season,\nNow with night the new year comes;\nHail the horse's head with blessings --\nBlessings be on those who bide here\nAnd indeed on all the world!\nWide are the worldgates,\nSights to be sent us;\nReady for rede-gifts,\nWe wait for your wisdom.\nGrateful, we give now, gifts of our own\nHeart-work and hand-work the hearth shall grace;\nHappiness, harmony, health in the new year,\nSend to the world and we in it, we wish you.\nTo watching winds we wish fair travelling;\nTo sleepless dead sweet rest we send;\nGods and Goddesses, go with praises --\nSee: the circle is severed thus. [cut with sword at east]\nI 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 bizarre 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...)\nHappy Samhain!\nLeigh Ann\nThelemaNet of Berkeley * (415)548-0163 (161/93)","title":"Internet Book of Shadows: Samhain Ritual For Small Circle...","type":"page"}