Doctor Oakroot
March 19th, 2002, 09:29 AM
Aradia I (http://ampcast.com/docosmojo)
In the beginning nothing was at all,
Not stars above nor earth beneath the feet.
Not even empty space up in the sky
And time itself had not begun to flow.
And then there opened up a rift in time
And then there opened up a rift in space
And emptiness reached out to fill the void.
The universe was infinite and dark.
A fleeting thought across the empty mind,
A dreaming Goddess tossing in her sleep,
While dreaming empty darkness without end,
She heard a voice! It said, "Let there be light."
Diana wakes among the shining stars.
They wink like fireflies against the night.
Surprised, she looks around with tearful eyes
And hears a voice, her own. It says, "I am."
And overwhelmed by waking from the dream
And pregnant with desire to give birth,
She split herself, one dark, the other light.
The sun and moon arose above the world.
As ever must the sun arise at dawn,
So now the Light of Life must start to shine.
She sent her brother on to light the way,
And named him Bel, the Bearer of the Light.
The One of Light initiates the earth,
He grows as stalks of grain upon the field,
He dances through the meadow and the wood
All green with leaves. Such is the light of Bel.
Diana took the future in her hands
And shaped it as with clay from in the ground.
She clothed herself in darkness like a cloak
And in this guise She gave herself a form.
Behold Diana, Mother of us all,
Who holds the greatest myst'ry in her womb.
Her darkness is the cup which holds the wine
For us to drink so we may be reborn.
(copyright 1991. all rights reserved)
In the beginning nothing was at all,
Not stars above nor earth beneath the feet.
Not even empty space up in the sky
And time itself had not begun to flow.
And then there opened up a rift in time
And then there opened up a rift in space
And emptiness reached out to fill the void.
The universe was infinite and dark.
A fleeting thought across the empty mind,
A dreaming Goddess tossing in her sleep,
While dreaming empty darkness without end,
She heard a voice! It said, "Let there be light."
Diana wakes among the shining stars.
They wink like fireflies against the night.
Surprised, she looks around with tearful eyes
And hears a voice, her own. It says, "I am."
And overwhelmed by waking from the dream
And pregnant with desire to give birth,
She split herself, one dark, the other light.
The sun and moon arose above the world.
As ever must the sun arise at dawn,
So now the Light of Life must start to shine.
She sent her brother on to light the way,
And named him Bel, the Bearer of the Light.
The One of Light initiates the earth,
He grows as stalks of grain upon the field,
He dances through the meadow and the wood
All green with leaves. Such is the light of Bel.
Diana took the future in her hands
And shaped it as with clay from in the ground.
She clothed herself in darkness like a cloak
And in this guise She gave herself a form.
Behold Diana, Mother of us all,
Who holds the greatest myst'ry in her womb.
Her darkness is the cup which holds the wine
For us to drink so we may be reborn.
(copyright 1991. all rights reserved)