Pattskyn/Norse Service (PPT)/January 20, 2019 1

Out of Darkness
Out of Night
Out of Fire (Fire)
Out of Ice

Out of Silence
Came a sound
Out of Emptiness
Came a Life

Flower from branch

Branch from tree
Tree from Seed
Season after Season
As Fate Decrees

We mark out this place

We sanctify the ground
We create our ve
(volunteers)
By Fire and Water
Blood and bone
By word and deed

We hail our Ancestors and the Disir of our families

We hail the mighty Æsir, the guardians of Midgard
We hail the Vanir, ancient and fair
We hail the shining Alfar
We hail the crafty Dverger
And the Four who stand at the Compass Points
We hail the Jotnar, terrible and wise
We pay homage to the wights of the land on which we stand
And ask their blessing upon this time, this place, and all who are here

Individual Hails to Gods

Candle and water come back to Altar

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In the beginning there was Nothing

No sand. No sea. No cool little waves.
No Earth.
No Sky.
No growth.
No sound.
On a great, gaping chasm, its depts spiraling into a past un-knowable
But somewhere to the South, fire kindled
And somewhere to the North Darkness flourished
A wellspring bubbled – roared – erupted in 11 rivers of ice and storm
That flowed out into the darkness – into the chasm
Where the waters froze like hardened cinders
Until sparks of quickening flame from the South
Brought them to life again – vapors of poison rose
And formed frost in the dark
Layer upon layer until the Giant Ymir appeared
Audumbla by their side
And somewhere deep below – we know not where or when or how
A seed sprouted – Yggdrasil began to grow
Day and night had no meaning
There was no winter
No summer
No spring
Only Audumbla licking the salty rime
And Ymir subsisting on her milk
Sweating
Producing offspring
And somewhere deep below – we know not where or when or how
There was a man – a god – Buri. Beautiful, power, and strong
Audumbla licked him free of the icy rime
And he took for himself a mate from Ymir’s children
And they had a son
Called Bor
And Bor took for himself a mate from Ymir’s grandchildren
And they had three sons – or maybe more
But of the three, it is Odinn, Vili, and Ve who concern this tale
For seeing that there only fire
Only ice
Only heat
Only cold
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Seeing that there was no winter

No summer
No day
No night
No reckoning of time at all
They came forth to Create the sea
The earth
The stone
The sky
To do this, they need flesh
And bone
Blood
And a dome of heaven