APPALACHIAN PAGAN ALLIANCE Aug. 2006 Newsletter Editress:Ginger Strivelli August came and went as usual that busy time of year so many of us APAers are getting in the ‘back to school’ routine with our Witchlings. We discussed bread baking on Lammas on the yahoo group email chat list, as well as our usual chit-chat-banter there. We didn’t have a Ladies night out this month, we will be having one for the usual Samhain costumed brunch of course. FROM OUR BOOK OF SHADOWS: An Ancient Roman Spell…slightly altered for today’s tastes, with reworked poetry-loose translation…By Ginger Strivelli Sacrificing ---from a box of animal crackers--- one pig, one sheep and one cow upon your altar, after carrying them clockwise all around your home recite: "Lord Mars, I pray and ask You to be gracious and merciful to me, my home, and my family; With that prayer I have taken this suovetaurilia around my home and land so that You will keep away, ward off, and banish sickness, seen and unseen, barrenness and destruction, ruin and bad influences; and that You will permit my harvests, my land, my blessings to flourish and my woes to perish With this prayer I invoke You purifying my home and all I do As I am making this atonement, as I pray; look down upon me to accept this offering today of these symbols of my sacrifice to you; Lord Mars and all the other Gods too. (the orginal Roman prayer: Mars pater, te precor quaesoque uti sies volens propitius mihi domo familiaeque nostrae, quoius re ergo agrum terram fundumque meum suovitaurilia circumagi iussi, uti tu morbos visos invisosque, viduertatem vastitudinemque, calamitates intemperiasque prohibessis defendas averruncesque; utique tu fruges, frumenta, vineta virgultaque grandire beneque evenire siris, pastores pecuaque salva servassis duisque bonam salutem valetudinemque mihi domo familiaeque nostrae; harumce rerum ergo, fundi terrae agrique mei lustrandi lustrique faciendi ergo, sicuti dixi, macte hisce suovitaurilibus lactentibus inmolandis esto; Mars pater, eiusdem rei ergo macte hisce suovitaurilibus lactentibus esto )
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