If you want to submit a request for a prayer, poem, or song to be written to you privately or to be posted on this blog or my Patreon for a God, Ancestor, or spirit, sign up for the Ansuz and above level here on my Patreon. This prayer was requested from Elfwort for the Pre-Iron Age Ancestors.
Standing stones marked by the work of your hands
Pieces of pottery, pieces of your lives
Bones and furs and metal
If I listen I can hear you
The drum pounding from centuries on centuries
The clack of wood on wood
The strain of sinew
I can see you
The dance around fires and trees and poles
The feasting around tables and benches
The kneeling, prostrating, genuflection before the holy places
I can smell you
The wood smoke of cooking and heating
The fresh rains on well-tilled earth
The sacred herbs burning
I can feel you
The embrace of countless hands
The support on my back, my soles, my shoulders, my head
The presence as we stand together
I can taste you
The plentiful foods that you have passed down
The bread, vegetables, and flesh prepared in your way
The drinks I have tasted, made by your guidance
I can sense you
The guidance you give me
The fierce love and protection your surround me in
The thousands of Beings who know me
Animals, plants, you knew them well
Stones and bones with which to craft, to fight
Waters and ways you knew by heart and head
You reach to me and you are here
Old Ancestors
I hail You!
Sarenth Odinsson 