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Ostara
02:10
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OSTARA!
Total darkness all around
The campfire burns upon the ground
Brothers sitting side by side
Telling stories in the night
Songs are sung, our voices loud
The gods are watching, pleased and proud
Our smiling faces 'neath the stars
Giving thanks, on Ostara
OSTARA!
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Rozhanitsy
06:15
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Olden forest covers me
Asked it for my destiny
Read my answer in the leaves
Words I saw could not believe
Told I could not leave
Frozen river covers me
Icy water hard to breathe
Tried to surface, run from fate
River kept me in its hate
Reached but was too late
Blazing fire covers me
Burning all the eye can see
Taking from us life and hope
All now left is dust and smoke
All was left now broke
Olden forest covers me
Asked it for my destiny
Read my answer in the leaves
Words I saw could not believe
Told I could not leave
It was precisely at midnight, at the deadest hour, hidden from moonlight.
That three women of fate came from the forest and they spoke together the child's destiny.
The forests burned, and the seas rose and roared, yet the gods simply watched on as the world was broken before them.
For the words these women of fate spoke, were by that child fulfilled.
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3. |
On Kupala Night
03:22
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I saw your garland on the lake
I dared not swim and seal my fate
I waited still upon the shore
You watched me take as eve is brought
Hold my hand dear across the fire tall
Gods are watching if our grip will fall
In forest gathered the fern I hold in sight
Our dreams of love now blossoming
Upon Kupala Night
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Litha
02:08
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The Idolmaker
03:13
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The gods they told me
(To whittle away, to whittle away)
To carve their idols
(The forest to place, the forest to place)
They sent a storm down
(I toiled away, I toiled away)
The wind around me
(I stood in place, I stood in place)
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At a Strange Threshold
04:14
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(Hávamál Stanza 1)
The man who stands at a strange threshold,
Should be cautious before he cross it,
Glance this way and that:
Who knows beforehand what foes may sit
Awaiting him in the hall?
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Perun
03:50
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Oh from the sky and from the earth
We hear your ancient song
Perun
Oh thunder from the mighty oak
Oh thunder from the mighty oak
And as we look to sky above
Upon great branch you stand
Perun
The thunder from the mighty oak
The thunder from the mighty oak
Perun
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8. |
Svarog
04:00
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Break oh the circle
Offer to the flame
Give to gods your wishes
Speak loud your name
Bleed now into cauldron
Show to us no pain
Let it spill three seconds
To metal upon flame
SVAROG
Forged in the fires
Weapons brought to hand
To protect our new homeland
Stretched across the land
Flames growing bigger
Blaze burning tall
Growing ever stronger
With every waking call
SVAROG
Break oh the circle
Offer to the flame
Give to gods your wishes
Speak loud your name
SVAROG!
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9. |
The Wanderer
05:58
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I saw a man he stood alone
Wandering where none would go
And he spoke to me
Do you see?
I saw a beggar late at night
His constant struggle recondite
And he called to me
Please help me
I saw a king upon a throne
Sat upon the people's bones
And he told me
You're nothing
I saw the stars up in the sky
A brilliant map spread way up high
And it showed me
Where I'd be
The eagles come a hunting
In the dead of the night
They come searching for the child who holds
All but the light
In vengeful flight
I saw a god amongst the trees
Hiding from mortality
And he granted me
To believe
I saw a ship upon the seas
A final peace it guaranteed
As it covered me
To become free
I saw myself in mirror true
I saw a man no more to lose
And he told me
I now see
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The Moon and Wolf
01:47
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She was the pale white lunar sphere
Beacon of hope on a night so clear
He was the wolf with bloodstained teeth
Blessed by she, to the hunt goes he
She was the midnight candle glow
Light for the beasts below to roam
He was the hawk, lord of the trees
Blessed by she, thus roams he free
She was the arcane nocturne sun
In darkness shines the ancient one
He was the wind, the crashing storm
Of shattered homes and souls forlorn
She was the poet’s widow’s tear
The all-knowing omniscient seer
He was the grand celestial sky
Together they watch the night go by
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11. |
Northern Sky
04:08
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A shadow creeping across the land
I hold my shield and hammer high
Foes at our shore but here we stand
As gods now watch from northern sky
Steel yourselves, our time draws near
I hold my shield and hammer high
No pain, no wounds nor death we fear
As gods now watch from northern sky
By the axe and the bow, the sword and spear
I hold my shield and hammer high
I wield the strength of mighty Mjolnir
As gods now watch from northern sky
Hail Freya, Odinn and Tyr
I hold my shield and hammer high
Spirits of the land in flesh appear
As gods now watch from northern sky
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Veles
06:26
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Earth and water mud and stream
Ancient totems lay unseen
Slither out of skin and breathe
From the fire burning thee
Took from thunder treasured wife
Took from him
A life now forfeit by the light
Took from us
Your life
Smoke and flame to sky released
Tranquil forest took by beast
Heaven sent he strikes at thee
From your scales you find relief
Took from thunder treasured son
Challenge has
Begun the clouds will cover sun
Cycle has
Begun
Earthly Veles we call to your name
Tending our fields and healing the lame
Mighty Veles we witness your fate
Falling to thunder, fire and blade
Fallen Veles we give you our hand
Salted by sea and dusted by land
Risen Veles we call you again
Veles is kind, Veles is great
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