The Raven's Nest

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Samhain

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SACRED ANCESTORS - Lisa Thiel

Sacred ancestors come to me
Sacred ancestors who love me
Sacred ancestors come to me
Sacred ancestors, please help me

All my mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters
and relations too
Who had love me for always
I keep the light for you

On this night when the veil is thin,

we pause

to remember and honor our ancestors.

We welcome them

and invite them to join us

this night in celebration

as the old year passes. 

ALL SOUL'S NIGHT

from "The Visit" by Loreena McKennitt

Bonfires dot the rolling hillsides

Figures dance around and around

To drums that pulse out echoes of darkness

Moving to the pagan sound

Somewhere in a hidden memory

Images float before my eyes

Of fragrant nights of straw and of bonfires

And dancing till the next sunrise.

Chorus:

I can see the lights in the distance

Trembling in the dark cloak of night

Candles and lanterns are dancing, dancing

A waltz on All Souls Night.

Figures of cornstalks bend the shadows

Held up tall as the flames leap high

The green knight holds the holly bush

To mark where the old year passes by.

Chorus

Bonfires dot the rolling hillsides

Figures dance around and around

To drums that pulse out echoes of darkness

Moving to the pagan sound

Standing on the bridge that crosses

The river that goes out to the sea

The wind is full of a thousand voices

They pass by the bridge and me

Chorus repeats 2 times.