Folk Prayers


Echoes of Ancient Times?

To The Sun
Greeting to you, sun of the seasons, as you travel the skies on high, with your strong steps on the wing of the heights; you are the happy mother of the stars.

You sink down in the perilous ocean without harm and without hurt, you rise up on the quiet wave like a young queen in flower.

Scottish Gaelic; traditional folk prayer.

To the New Moon
Greeting to you, new moon, kindly jewel of guidance! I bend my knees to you, I offer you my love.

I bend my knees to you, I raise my hands to you, I lift up my eye to you, new moon of the seasons.

Greeting to you, new moon, darling of my love! Greeting to you, new moon, darling of graces.

You journey on your course, you steer the flood-tides, you light up your face for us, new moon of the seasons.

Queen of guidance, queen of good luck, queen of my love, new moon of the seasons!

Scottish Gaelic; traditional folk prayer

To The Moon
Greeting to you, gem of the night!

Beauty of the skies, gem of the night!

Mother of the stars, gem of the night!

Foster-child of the sun, gem of the night!

Majesty of the stars, gem of the night!

Scottish Gaelic; traditional folk prayer
from A Celtic Miscellany translated by Kenneth Hurlstone Jackson, Penguin Classics reprinted 1982

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