Paganistan: Notes from the Secret Commonwealth
In Which One Midwest Man-in-Black Confers, Converses & Otherwise Hob-Nobs with his Fellow Hob-Men (& -Women) Concerning the Sundry Ways of the Famed but Ill-Starred Tribe of Witches.
The Old Covenant
Life for life: the Old Covenant.
(The Old Oneness, we would say in the old Witch language.)
And the sign and seal of the Old Oneness—“There's a oneness between us”—is the apple.
The apple is deep, deep. At its heart, cut one way, the Gate of Life (i.e. yoni). Cut the other, the fivefold Star of Birth, Life, Love, Death, and Rebirth.
They say that Elfhame's Queen took a mortal man to be her bard and lemman: Thomas Rhymer he was called.
Seven years he served her: and all his payment was an apple.
Take this for wages, True Thomas, she told him. 'Twill give thee a tongue that can never lie.
I'll never succeed in business now, thinks Thomas.
But 800 years on, they sing his song wherever songs are sung.
And his prophecies still tell true.
For
Lhianna Sidhe
and
Tasha Halpert
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Awww, thank you ! I am honored. You are most kind. Blessings Bright, Tasha