[GoddessDanu]

"Accept this gift, Holy Ones,
and keep me in your minds,
as I will keep You in my heart."


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[GoddessDanu]

"She is the one who is Lady of all,
and She is the one of whom I would speak,
the one who gives birth and the one who brings death,
beginning and end of the course of our lives."

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[GoddessDanu]

"Holy Ones of old, we pray to you!
We who have been faithful, pray to you!
Repository of all wisdom,
out of which all others have only a share:
it is to you we look when in need of advice.
The words you speak drop like late summer rains,
refreshing after a drought,
awakening the dormant grass.
Again and again I call to you,
again and again you answer me.
Old and Wise One, it is you whom I worship."


Ceisiwr Serith
A Book of Pagan Prayer
2002 Ceisiwr Serith
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[GoddessDanu]

"Rise up, rise up, Sun in the East,
while the world turns toward you.
It has turned toward you since its very beginning,
in infinite longing, in infinite love.
And I, a child of Earth, take her as my exemplar,
and hold my heart out to you in the Dawn."




Ceisiwr Serith
A Book of Pagan Prayer
2002 Ceisiwr Serith
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[GoddessDanu]

"Come, holy gods, and bless this food
that will feed my body,
through the actions of which
you are daily made manifest in the world."



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2002 Ceisiwr Serith
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[GoddessDanu]

"Goddess of growing things,
of warm and moist earth,
of soil-piercing shoots:
praised in all lands,
praised through all ages,
praised by all peoples,
praised with rites of life.

Mother of All Tribes,
of men and women both,
of beasts and plants and people:
praised in all lands,
praised through all ages,
praised by all peoples,
praised with rites of life.

Queen of all countries,
of crafts and industry,
of poets and of priests:
praised in all lands,
praised through all ages,
praised by all peoples,
praised with rites of life."



Ceisiwr Serith
A Book of Pagan Prayer
2002 Ceisiwr Serith
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[GoddessDanu]

"She has given birth to you again;
again, you climb the sky,
again you reach for your glory,
again I stand here to praise you.
The sacred path is fulfilled,
things are as they should be.
Rising Sun, herald of the right way,
I praise you!"


Ceisiwr Serith
A Book of Pagan Prayer
2002 Ceisiwr Serith
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[GoddessDanu]

"Great blackness, promiser of mysteries, bringer of dreams:
greetings to you, Mother Night, as you cast your blanket over the world!"


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2002 Ceisiwr Serith
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[GoddessDanu]

"It is only fair to thank you, Blessed Ones:
You have given me so much;
I give to you from my little."


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2002 Ceisiwr Serith
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[GoddessDanu]

"Your silver disk will light the entire night;
none of the night will be turned over to the dark.
Even as your soft light guides my path tonight,
may your gentle influence spread softly through my life."


Ceisiwr Serith
A Book of Pagan Prayer
2002 Ceisiwr Serith
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[GoddessDanu]

"You lift your snake-entwined staff, great healer,
and send out healing knowledge.
You know each drug and its effects,
each technique and when it should be used.
each symptom and what it means,
each illness and how to treat it,
each patient and what to do.
Guide all healer's hands,
may our hands be yours,
may my hands be yours."


Ceisiwr Serith
A Book of Pagan Prayer
2002 Ceisiwr Serith
Reprinted with permission of Red Wheel/Weiser

[GoddessDanu]

"You lift your snake-entwined staff, great healer,
and send out healing knowledge.
You know each drug and its effects,
each technique and when it should be used.
each symptom and what it means,
each illness and how to treat it,
each patient and what to do.
Guide all healer's hands,
may our hands be yours,
may my hands be yours."


Ceisiwr Serith
A Book of Pagan Prayer
2002 Ceisiwr Serith
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[GoddessDanu]

"Blessed be Eostre, Springtime Queen,
blessed in all the signs of warmth's return,
blessed in the scent of thawing Earth,
her own true incense rising up in her praise."


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A Book of Pagan Prayer
2002 Ceisiwr Serith
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[GoddessDanu]

Oops, I didn't realize I posted the same prayer two days in a row. I'm a dork! lol

Here's a make-up prayer:

"HAIL to our Mother who makes the yellow flowers to bloom--who scatters the seeds of the maguey as she comes from the Land Divine!
Hail to our Mother who casts forth white flowers in abundance!
Hail to our Mother who shines in the thorn bush as a bright butter-fly!
Ho! She is our Mother--the woman god of the earth. In the desert she feeds the wild beasts, and gives them to live.
Thus--thus you see her ever abundant in gifts to all flesh.
And as you see the goddess of earth give to the beasts, so also she is giving to the green herbs and the fishes.
Hail to our Mother who casts forth yellow flowers to the sun from the Land Divine!"



HYMN TO THE ALL-MOTHER
(Mexican)

[GoddessDanu]

"Thanks to my patron for my continued prosperity,
for my continued health, for my continued life.
Continually I will pray to you,
always remembering you."


Ceisiwr Serith
A Book of Pagan Prayer
2002 Ceisiwr Serith
Reprinted with permission of Red Wheel/Weiser