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