Prayers
Prayers are, to me, invocations used to communicate with the Gods. Unlike a mantra, which is used to set the mind into a particular frame, into a particular mode, prayers are communication. You use them to state your case to the Gods, and formula demands that you also invoke the God or Goddess (or Gods) properly, calling upon them via their known names and epithets as well as stating your case, intentions, and needs.
Some of my poems work well as prayers, and some of my prayers might seem more like poems, but in the end they all serve the same purpose for me, to bring me closer to the divine Gods.
Heliogenna 2011
- Ho there - To Hephaestos and Aphrodite
- Prayer to Zeus: Call on Zeus to lift us up...
- Prayer To All The Gods
- Candle Lighting Prayer: This one may have to vary according to which deity I am lighting a candle for, but in my home I have a central altar that is lit every morning and extinguished every night, and this prayer is what I use on that occasion.
- Greet the Virgins: Call the Olympian Virgins.
- Radiant Apollo: The Olympian God Apollo is most often depicted as a youthful, beautiful man of radiant countenance. Almost angelic or the stereotypical divine image, if you think about it, a manifestation in light and transcendence. I try to invoke with this that aspect of his being.
- Apollo of the Radiant Face: Simple invocation
- Ares the Brave: Invocation of Ares, the warrior, the brave soldier.
- Blessed Be: The first prayer I ever wrote, it uses the seemingly standard neo-pagan "blessed be" in relation to the seeking of the Gods' blessings.
- Lady of the Hearth: My invocation, longer than my usual, to Hestia during my candle lighting. I usually go for the shorter form.
- Come Forth: another version of my invocation of Hestia, and other Gods, used during times of initiation of prayer or meditation,like when I light my candle in the morning.
- Come In and Roam: An invocation prayer to no specific deity. It calls them to enter and roam free in your home.
- Come: This one invokes all the Gods in my personal pantheon and asks for their blessings.
- Dark Moon: I think I meant this one as a prayer to Hekate, but it is vague enough to be used otherwise.
- Invocation of Hestia: Designed as one of the prayers to Hestia as I call to her when I light my altar candle every morning.
- May 2008: May 2008 was a rough month here. Lost an aunt, a friend, an acquaintance, and have another friend at death's door to the dread beast Cancer. This is part of how I let such things out.
- To Apollo: October 2009, I was invited to take part in a sunrise ritual that many in the world would be taking part in, so I wrote this to recite to the God on the Sunrise on Noumenia on the 18th of October closing out Pyanepsion and going into Maimakterion.
- Stay Your Hand: January, 2010. When I read about the astonishing suicide attempt of Artie Lange, Howard Stern side kick, I was moved to write this.
- To Hekate: To the Goddess of paths, crossways, and bearer of torches.
- In Hope: To the Everliving Gods
- Daughters of Evening: To the Hesperides, the maiden nymphs who guard Hera's garden at the Western end of the world.
- Halloween Prayer: To those who passed this year. May also work as a Heliogenna prayer.
- Greet the Great Virgins: Part of my dedications to the great virgin goddesses of Olympus.
- We Sing of You: To Pallas, an epithet of Athena