REPOSE AND COSMOS CEREMONY & FESTIVAL

IN ADORATION OF
THE ARRETOS KOURA
(THE NAMELESS MAIDEN AND BRIDE)
Associated with the Centre of the Wheel of the Year
(Outside Time)
In between Samhain and Yule
The Centre of the Seasonal Circle


The Cross-Octer Festival of Inner Cosmic Proprioception
(by Lady Svetlana)
Priestess:
"This is the Festival of Repose on Earth for Nature and Environ, plus the Celebration of intergalactic spaces, intertwinings of universes, and pathways from one Universe unto another."





The Charge and Charm of Repose
(by Fred McLaren Adams)
Priestess: (Charge)
“It is the time of emptiness and return to the raw elements.
Under gathering quilts of crystals, the Goddess sleeps alone.
Completely enfolded within Her, the God of Time summons strength for the birth to come.
The vast throng of the stars bestows upon Gaia the communion kiss of all in all. “
Priestess: (Charm with music, mime)
"“Silently slumbering her limbs curl around the cold world.
Starlight floods her darkened flesh”.




Megeia
The Opening of Cosmoton
(by Lady Svetlana and Fred McLaren Adams)

Priestess: (She enters the Ring)
"I open this Temple of (* name of your own Temple) in Honour of Nameless Bride, who dances into being stars, constellations, galaxies, black and white holes and quasars. Whirling with my arms outstretched I decree that we enter the Black Hole.

Here is the twirling round river of star-rising stairways, incandescently separating two distant points of convergence that pass beyond sidereal immensity inward upon endless horizons of the Soul.

Arretos Koura!
Open Thy Diamond Eyes in oceanic leaden Cheeks
Where we seek Faerie strands of being
And fire opal seas in Thy volcanic Cone of Night
And in Thy black Curls
Whose Darkness far outshines the light!"




Opening of the Cross-Quarters and Quarters
(by Fred McLaren Adams)

One of the celebrants, preferably an Initiate, evokes the Quarters and Cross-Quarters upon the four Quarter Points and the Cross-Quarter Points (points due East, South, West, North, Southeast, Southwest, Northwest, Northeast).

In accord with ancient Greek tradition, from Anaxagoras and Empedocles to the School of Hippocrates, Feraferia assigns the four Elements to the four Quarters in the following arrangement:

Air – East; Fire – South;
Earth – West; Water – North.




Invocation
(by Lady Svetlana)

An Adelpha or second Priestess performs this invocation.

Second Priestess:
Facing East on the Quarter Point she intones:
"We call forth the Antheides of Morn and Spring."

She holds high the Wand during this recitation and places it back on the earth or floor afterwards.
Facing Southeast on the Cross-Quarter Point he/she intones:

"We bring out the Elementals of Air and Smell."

Facing South on the Quarter Point he/she intones:

"We call forth the Ariadnes of Noon and Summer."

She holds high the Sword during this recitation and places it back on the earth or floor afterwards.
Facing Southwest on the Cross-Quarter Point he/she intones:

"We bring out the Elementals of Fire and Sight."

Facing West on the Quarter Point he/she intones:

"We call forth the Hesperides of Eve and Autumn."

She holds high the Pentacle during this recitation and places it back on the earth or floor afterwards.
Facing Northwest on the Cross-Quarter Point he/she intones:

"We bring out the Elementals of Earth and Taste."

Facing North on the Quarter Point he/she intones:

"We call forth the Hyades of Midnight and Winter."

She holds high the Cup during this recitation and places it back on the earth or floor afterwards.
Facing Northeast on the Cross-Quarter Point he/she intones:

"We bring out the Elementals of Water and Sound. "





Invocation of Zenith, Nadir and Centre
(by Fred McLaren Adams)
Second Priestess evokes – and all assembled invoke – the spiritual Fount at the Centre of the Ring. She intones:

Second Priestess:
"Zenithides! Great Lovers of the Zenith!
Nadirides! Great Lovers of the Nadir!
Join hands and hearts, resonance and radiance,
Here upon the White Wedding Stone of Earth,
Beneath the starry shade of the Cosmic Mill Tree,
Where all souls press into the echoing root of Touch,
To enclasp living altar and to kiss pulsing Omphalos
And to imbibe luminous, melodious Breath of the Maiden,
From Whose shimmering Flesh, now and forever,
The Four Rivers of Faerie into all Worlds flow!
Ho! So be it! EVOE KORE KAI KOUROS AWEEYA!"

Celebrants gather under the Holy black epiplema.
Music: ‘Antartica’ by Ralph Vaughan von Williams, first loud, then softening.




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