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A king once invited merchants from all over the region to attend a big crafts fair, assuring each that he would purchase whatever did not sell. One blacksmith of limited intelligence brought an iron image of Saturn to this fair, and since no one purchased it, the kings officers procured it and delivered it to his majesty. That night in a dream, the
... See more... See moreTemples are built for gods. Knowing this a farmer builds a small temple to see what kind of god turns up.
Arepo built a temple in his field, a humble thing, some stones stacked up to make a cairn, and two days later a god moved in.
“Hope you’re a harvest god,” Arepo said, and set up an altar and burnt two stalks of wheat. “It’d be nice, you know.”
the real slim shady
Isaiah 11:1-2
Ah, you who make iniquitous decrees,
who write oppressive statutes,
2 to turn aside the needy from justice
and to rob the poor of my people of their right,
that widows may be your spoil,
and that you may make the orphans your prey!
O Goddess of the Moon, Goddess of the night sky, of brilliance and of darkness, please bless this seeker of the ways!
Philip Carr-Gomm • Druidcraft: The Magic of Wicca and Druidry
let your haste commend your duty.