Pagan rituals, liturgies and prayers E-Book

Marah Ellis Ryan

• Herausgeber: Books on Demand
• Kategorie: Religion und Spiritualität
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2018

Seitenzahl: 30

Beschreibung

OH YOU! Who dwell in the house made of the Dawn. In the home of evening twilight. In the house made of dark cloud, In the house made of the he rains, In the house made of the dark mist, In the house made of the she rain, In the house made of peace; Where the dark mist curtains the door The path to which is on the rainbow, Where the zig-zag lightning on high it stands Male deity divine! With your moccasins of dark cloud, come to us! With your headdress of dark cloud, come to us! With clouds dark, your mind enveloping, come to us! You above thunder dark, high-flying, come to us!

Leseprobe

Marah Ellis Ryan

Published by BoD - Books on Demand, NorderstedtISBN: 9783748147077

Table of contents

PREFACE

Second Preface

ON THE WRITING OF A PRAYER OF PRAISE

TO THE CREATIVE GOD

APACHE PRAYER

NAVAJO LITURGY

ADDRESS TO SUPREME DEITY

A PRAYER FOR THE DYING

BABYLONIAN PRAYER FOR HEALTH

PRAYER TO THE SUN

MAGICAL INCANTATION

CHINESE LITURGY

CHINESE PRAYER

PRAYER OF TRANSFORMATION INTO A LOTUS

A PRAYER FOR PRESERVATION OF THE HEART

HYMN TO AMUN-RA

PRAYER OF THE SOWER

HYMN TO PANU

THE SALUTATION OF THE DAWN

PRAYER TO BUDDHA

HYMN TO AGNI

PRAYER OF THE GAMBLER

PRAYER TO KAMI-DANA

PRAYER OF THE SINGER

HYMN OF TLA-LOC

HYMN TO THE ALL-MOTHER

HYMN OF THE GOD OF FLOWERS

PRAYER TO THE MEXICAN GOD OF FIRE

THE PRAYER OF THE MAIZE

HYMN TO CIHUA-COATL

PRAYER TO THE GOD OF THIEVES

INVOCATION TO ORMAZD

MOHAMMEDAN PRAYER OF ADORATION

AN INCA'S DEATH PRAYER

HYMN TO THE UNKNOWN GOD

PREFACE

THIS little book of thoughts big, and thoughts childish, goes to the reader with the hope that it bears the little known fact that Ancient America had a written aboriginal literature--much of which was beautiful. The Apache and the Navajo prayers are oral, transmitted from priest to priest through the centuries; but the Mexican are fragments, rescued from a wide literature by the learned and courageous Franciscan, Bernardino de Sahagun, in the Seventeenth century. The first archbishop of Mexico took credit to himself for the burning, in one town, of 60,000 Mexican books and manuscripts on history, religion, law, medicine, astrology, genealogy and poetry. It was his part of the approved battle against the false gods. For four centuries he has had ardent imitators--which accounts for much. The masked, dramatized prayers of the Indians of the Southwest of today, suggested to the compiler a key to ancient Mexican rituals where god or goddess replies directly to priest or suppliant. This is the one special liberty taken with the records--the deity or priest is placed as the Indian places him, in the temple of feast or sacrifice; while the Spanish records gave only the spoken words with little to indicate the ritual or the speakers. The Peruvian had reached a higher spiritual and philosophic stage of culture before his annihilation, though at loss of the spontaneous poetic imagery, wistful or colorful, of the Mexican. Such as they are, these prayers reflect the culture of both extinct and living primitive peoples of the world we call the New, and they go out for judgment side by side with the better known rituals of the world we call the Old.

Second Preface

The history of western magic started about 4000 years ago. And since then it has been adding something to western magic. Originally, the Latin word magus nominated the followers of the spiritualist-priest class, and later originated to elect ‘clairvoyant, sorcerer’ and in a judgmental sense also ‘magician, trickster’. Thus, the initial meaning of the word ‘magic’ was the wisdoms of the Magi, that is the abilities of attaining supernatural powers and energy, while later it became practical critically to deceitful wizardry. The etymological descriptions specify three significant features in the expansion of the notion ‘magic’: