Festivals, death, suicide, Drumming, Fire Keeping, Spirituality, Pagan, Paganism, Brighid,
Bellows:
Forth shall one go, nor stay as a guest
in a single spot forever.
Love becomes loathing if one long sits
By the hearth in another’s home.
Thorpe:
A guest should depart, not always stay in one place.
The welcome becomes unwelcome
if he too long continues
in another’s house.
Original Old Norse:
Ganga skal
skala gestr vera
ey í einum stað
ljúfr verðr leiðr
ef lengi sitr
annars fletjum á
Bellows:
Profit thou hast if thou hearest,
Great thy gain if thou learnest:
A shoemaker be, or a maker of shafts,
For only thy single self;
If the shoe is ill made, or the shaft prove false,
Then evil of thee men think.
Original Text
Ráðumk þér Loddfáfnir
en þú ráð nemir
njóta mundu ef þú nemr
þér munu góð ef þú getr
skósmiðr þú verir
né skeptismiðr
nema þú sjálfum þér sér
skór er skapaðr illa
eða skapt sé rangt
þá er þér böls beðit
Bellows:
Profit thou hast if thou hearest,
Great thy gain if thou learnest:
Be never the first to break with thy friend
The bond that holds you both;
Care eats the heart if thou canst not speak
To another all thy thought.
Original Old Norse:
Ráðumk þér, Loddfáfnir,
en þú ráð nemir, –
njóta mundu, ef þú nemr,
þér munu góð, ef þú getr -:
vin þínum ver þú aldregi fyrri at flaumslitum;
sorg etr hjarta, ef þú segja né náir
einhverjum allan hug.
Artist: Kellie A. Girouard, Leandra Walke
Album: I Walk With The Goddess
I Walk with
The Goddess
The Goddess
She walks
With me
I Walk with
The Goddess
The Goddess
She walks
With me
She is the
Clouds up in
The clear blue sky
She is the
Ground
Beneath my feet
She is the
Oceans and the
Falling rain
She is the
Spark that
Lights my way
I Walk with
The Goddess
The Goddess
She walks
With me
I Walk with
The Goddess
The Goddess
She walks
With me
I Walk with
The Goddess
The Goddess
She walks
With me
I Walk with
The Goddess
The Goddess
She walks
With me
She is the
Clouds up in
The clear blue sky
She is the
Ground
Beneath my feet
She is the
Oceans and the
Falling rain
She is the
Spark that
Lights my way
I Walk with
The Goddess
The Goddess
She walks
With me
I Walk with
The Goddess
The Goddess
She walks
With me
I Walk with
The Goddess
The Goddess
She walks
With me
I Walk with
The Goddess
The Goddess
She walks
With me
She is the
Clouds up in
The clear blue sky
She is the
Ground
Beneath my feet
She is the
Oceans and the
Falling rain
She is the
Spark that
Lights my way
I Walk with
The Goddess
The Goddess
She walks
With me
I Walk with
The Goddess
The Goddess
She walks
With me
I Walk with
The Goddess
The Goddess
She walks
With me
I Walk with
The Goddess
The Goddess
She walks
With me
She is the
Clouds up in
The clear blue sky
She is the
Ground
Beneath my feet
She is the
Oceans and the
Falling rain
She is the
Spark that
Lights my way
I Walk with
The Goddess
The Goddess
She walks
With me
I
Walk with
The Goddess
The Goddess
She walks
With me
Goddess
She walks
With me
By S.J. Tucker
Album: Blessings
I am the firebird!
I am his daughter!
I am the firebird’s child!
I am a firebird!
I am his daughter!
And like the flame, I am wild wild wild wild
WILD!
I am the firebird!
I am his daughter!
I am the firebird’s child!
I am a firebird, the boldest song you’ve ever heard
Join in the dance, and make it wild, wild, wild!
Join in the dance and make it wild!
To see a maiden dance around
A fire is not so strange
But fire dances round the limbs
Of this uncommon maid!
Be brave enough to burn
And you’ll be brave enough to fly!
Join your sister Solace as
She lights the morning sky!
I am the firebird…
Wonders of the water air and
Earth are all the same
You’ll never know a wonder
Like the wonders of the flame!
Freely fly as what you are
And never walk in shame!
You must not fear to blister
If you’d live a life in flame!
I am girl and firebird
And Solace is my name!
I am the firebird…
If you’re brave enough to dance
Then you are brave enough to fly!
Forget what’s right and proper!
You won’t know until you try!
If you’re brave enough to fly
Then you are brave enough to burn!
Take my hand and join me in the
Carnival of Dawn!
I am the firebird…
Sister will you follow me?
Sister will you follow me?
Sister will you follow me?
Sister Sorrow, walk with me!
(Solace, Sorrow, round and round
Sisters burn the morning down
Solace, Sorrow, round and round
Sister, burn your Sorrow down!)
Like a flame you must be wild
I am a firebird!
I am the firebird…
You must not fear to blister if you’d live a life in flame!
Freely fly as what you are, keep dancing just the same!
You’ll never know a wonder like the wonders of the flame!
I am girl and firebird and Solace is my name!
We can rise with the fire of freedom
Truth is the fire that burns our chains
We can stop the fire of destruction
Healing is the fire running through our veins
Cauldron of Changes
Feather on the bone
Arch of Eternity
Ring around the stone
We are the old people
We are the new people
We are the same people
Wiser than before
Artist: Elaine Silver
Album: Faerie Goddess
By the earth that is her body
by the air that is her breath
by the fire that is her bright spirit
by the living waters of her womb
may the peace of the goddesss be
forever in your heart
the circle is open
but unbroken
Merry Meet and Merry Part
Now bear they the beggar’s staff;
Wealth is as swift as a winking eye,
Of friends the falsest it is.
Deyr fé, deyja frændr,
deyr sjalfr it sama,
en orðstírr deyr aldregi,
hveim er sér góðan getr.
So it is interesting to note the changes to a long time festival. One of Canadas longest running festivals, but certainly not its longest running as it was born out of Wiccan fest if lore serves me correctly. It to my knowledge was always referred to simply as a “Pagan” festival and Not catering to any particular one pantheon. As memory serves me the management deemed it was better not to do so at one time so as to be impartial and not favoring one particular belief over others. It seems now to be (at least through its advertising) pandering to “witchcraft”, “Pagan” and “heathen” communities does this mean that it is now choosing to favor two belief systems?
Just the things I notice….. and sometimes it is the little changes that sneak in over time that mean the most.
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