Sarasvati in Washington D.C.

 

An article by NPR about a new statue of Sarasvati installed in front of the Indonesia embassy in Washington D.C.:

 

Hindu Goddess Blesses Embassy Row

 

 

 

 

(photo copyright Sarah Ventre/NPR)

 

Summer Moon

Blessings of the Full Moon in Capricorn!

A Litany to Tellus

 

Precatio Terrae:

Holy Goddess, Tellus, Mother of all Nature, engendering all things and regenerating them each day, as you alone bring forth from your womb all things into life. Heavenly Goddess, overseeing all things on earth and throughout the seas, in whatever by silent nature is restored in sleep and in death, in the same way that you put to flight the night with the light you restore each day.

Earth, Enricher of Life, you dispel the dark shadow of death and the disorder of vast endless Chaos. You hold back the winds and storms, the rain showers and tempests. You alone regulate the weather cycles, either bestirring or putting to flight the storm, interspersing them with cheerful days.

You give the Food of Life unfailingly, in fidelity, and when the soul by necessity departs, in you alone do we find refuge. Thus, whatever you give, in you all will be returned. Deservedly are you called Great Mother of the Gods. Piously then are all the celestial powers distilled in you. The One and True Parent of all living things, human and divine. Without you nothing could be born, nothing could grow, and nothing mature.

You are the Great Goddess, the Queen of Heaven, you, Goddess, I adore. I call upon your power, come. Make what I ask to be readily and easily accomplished, and draw my thanks, Mother Earth, that, in fidelity, you do rightly merit.

Hear me, please, and favor me. This I ask of you, Holy Mother, and may you willingly give answer to me: may whatever herbs grow by your providence bring health to all humankind. May you now send these forth to me as your medicines. May they be filled with your healing virtues. May everything that I prepare from these herbs have good result, each and every one in the same way. As I shall receive these herbs from you, so too shall I willingly give them out to others, so that their health too may be ensured through your good graces. Finally, Mother Earth, ensure your healing powers for me as well. This I humbly ask.

By: Antonius Musa
(translation: M. Piscinus)

(photo of relief of Tellus Mater, from the walls of the Ara Pacis Augustae,13 B.C.E.)

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Tewa Prayer

 

Our Old Women Gods, we ask you!
Our Old Women Gods, we ask you!
Then give to us long life together,
May we live until our frosted hair
Is white; may we live till then
This life that now we know!

 

Our Old Women gods,
Come hither,
Take this!
Long life give us
And our people!

We bring you corn meal
For arm-leg nourishment
Then grant to us
Our span of life
And to our children also!

 

 

(Traditional Tewa Prayer & Pottery Bowl)

Happy Flower Moon

 

Blessings of the Full Moon in Sagittarius

and the Penumbral Lunar Eclipse!

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In Her Name ~ Temple of Learning

Navajo Song of the Earth

 

The Earth is beautiful
The Earth is beautiful
The Earth is beautiful.
 
Below the East, the Earth, its face toward East,
the top of its head is beautiful.*
The soles of its feet, they are beautiful
Its feet, they are beautiful
Its legs, they are beautiful
Its body, it is beautiful
Its chest, it is beautiful
Its breast, it is beautiful
Its head-feather, it is beautiful
The Earth is beautiful.

 

Below the West, the Sky, it is beautiful, its face toward West,
the top of its head is beautiful -

 

Below the East, the dawn, its face toward East,
the top of its head is beautiful -

 

Below the West, the afterglow of sundown, its face toward West,
the top of its head is beautiful -

 

Below the East, White Corn, its face toward East,
the top of its head is beautiful -

 

Below the South, Blue Corn, its face toward South,
the top of its head is beautiful -

 

Below the West, Yellow Corn, its face toward West,
the top of its head is beautiful -

 

Below the North, vari-colored Corn, its face toward North,
the top of its head is beautiful -

 

Below the East, Sahanahray, its face toward East,
the top of its head is beautiful -

 

Below the West, Bekayhozhon, its face toward West,
the top of its head is beautiful -

 

Below the East, corn-pollen, its face toward East,
the top of its head is beautiful -

 

Below the West, the corn-beetle, its face toward West,
the top of its head is beautiful -

 

The Earth is beautiful.
 

 

*The rest of this stanza is repeated after each of the lines following.

 

 

(Navajo Ceremonial Song from the Blessingway chant,

translated by Dr. Harry Hoijer,

Sand painting of Sky Father and Earth Mother.)

Happy May Day!

 

“Sweet May hath come to love us,

Flowers, trees, their blossoms don;

And through the blue heavens above us

The very clouds move on.”

 Heinrich Heine

 

 

("Goddesses on Mount Olympus" by Edouard Bisson.)

Full Moon Blessings

 

May the Lunar Beltane ~ Full Moon in Scorpio

bring you love and joy!