INVOCATION OF TE GODDESS HELLA I invoke thee and call upon thee dark mother of us all Queen of Hel and the realms of the nether moon By seed and root By bud and stem By leaf and flower and fruit By life and death do I invoke thee to descend Upon the body of thy servant and priestess here Heilsa! To the mistress of Sleet-Den Thou art Queen of Niflheim Primal world beyond worlds Mighty Giantess, Bestow thine ancient powers of love and death upon me I adore thee to the end And with loving sacrifice thy shrine adorn Descend upon your daughter, O great one �?I beseech thee Aid me in these rites dedicated To the power that moveth the universe Of the mother darksome and divine Mine the scourge and mine the kiss The five point star of love and bliss Here I charge you in this sign I am that soundless boundless bitter sea All tides are mine and answer unto me Tides of the heavens, tides of earth Eternal tides of death and birth CHARGE OF HELLA I am the Queen of the Nether Moon The life-death-life mother of all Ruler of the underworld and Lady of the Wild Hunt My hands garner the souls of the dead They abide with me in peace and joy In the life-death-life lands of primal ice and fire Yet am I the goddess of retribution and revenge Who consumest all evil I am sister to the ocean serpent That encircles the universe I am sister to the Fenris wolf And daughter of primal chaos: Loki �?the catalyst divine My embrace is the gate of death My kiss is the cup of blood My home is the hall of the dead Men fear to look upon me And yet, the mysteries of the universe Are written upon my face Come unto me! Have courage and faith! Trust in me and pay me troth! Succumb to my embrace! Sacrifice thyself to me And find that which is attained at the end of desire I am that water crystallised in the blackness I am that still and solid core that abides in the darkness Of the womb of the earth The catacombs that are the cauldron of the devouring mother Where all things are transformed and all opposites realized In the shadows and the chill of the deep realm Even gold decays All will perish, crumble and mould In the midnight cauldron of the dark mother But ever mind �?/P> Death, ruin and devastation Compose the fertile earth from which all life springs forth Even as I am the Goddess of Death So am I the source of all creation I am thy Goddess now and always I am the Mother of Death I am the Mother of Life
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