Guest Contribution: Adorations to Earth

Adorations to Earth
by Sarenth Odinsson


I adore You, Elder Ancestor

I adore You, Mother

I adore You, Midgard

I adore You, Craggy One

I adore You, First Carbon-chain

I adore You, Last Pebble

I adore You, Bat-filled Cave

I adore You, Loamy Soil

I adore You, Grassy Knoll

I adore You, Elder Yew

I adore You, Gentle Sapling

I adore You, Sand-Swept Desert

I adore You, Ice-bound North

I adore You, Fertile Ground

I adore You, Shaking Plates

I adore You, Rolling Wheat

I adore You, Blessed Rainforest

I adore You, Sweeping Plains

I adore You, Frosted Tundra

I adore You, Teeming Jungle

I adore You, Mighty Mountains

I adore You, Silent Wood

I adore You, Cacophonous Forest

I adore You, Little Nut

I adore You, Great Tree

I adore You, Tiny Bush

I adore You, Expansive Grass

I adore You, Crawling Weed

I adore You, Whose Name is Jord

I adore You, Whose Name is Nerthus

I adore You, Whose Name is Terra

I adore You, Whose Name is Gaia

I adore You, Killing Quake

I adore You, Fertile Ground

I adore You, Sheltering Stone

I adore You, Sliding Mud

I adore You, Wrathful Volcano

I adore You, Giving Tree

I adore You, Gentle One

I adore You, Patient One

I adore You, Whose Arteries are Rivers

I adore You, Whose Kidneys are Swamps

I adore You, Whose Lungs are all the Green Life

I adore You, Whose Heart is Molten Flow

I adore You, Whose Body Sustains Us All

I adore You, Whose Eyes gaze upon the Cosmos

I adore You, Whose Hands Touch All Upon Her Skin

I adore You, Whose Skin is the Ground under our feet

I adore You, Whose Whisper echoes through Midgard

I adore You, Who Holds All We Need

I adore You, Whose Blessings are Endless

I adore You, Whose Children Heal and Kill

I adore You, Who Gave Ask and Embla form

I adore You, Whose Forms Holds Water

I adore You, Whose Forms Hold Fire

I adore You, Whose Form is Encompassed by Air

I adore You, Who is Our Mother

I adore You, Long-Changer

I adore You, Patient Grower

I adore You, Adapter

I adore You, Food-bountiful

I adore You, Root-heavy

I adore You, Sand-shifter

I adore You, Deep One

I adore You, Carved Cavern

I adore You, Mine-dotted

I adore You, Whose Offerings are Blessed

I adore You, Who Carries Us

I adore You, Seed-sower

I adore You, Whose Tone Instructs Midgard

I adore You, Whose Dance flows in Its own Time

I adore You, Who Dances in swamp, volcano, desert, and tundra

I adore You, Whose Body runs red in battle and birth

I adore You, Grower of grass and mud

I adore You, Who eats the body

I adore You, Wood-grower

I adore You, Grover-tender

I adore You, Peaceful Rest

I adore You, Whose Form is a riot of living and color

I adore You, Who gave my Ancestors home

I adore You, Who gave my Ancestors food

I adore You, Who gave my Ancestors clothes

I adore You, Who taught my Ancestors art

I adore You, Who taught my Ancestors medicine

I adore You, Who gifted my Ancestors with treasures of the mine

I adore You, Who gifted my Ancestors with the first of tools and weapons

I adore You, Who gifted my Ancestors the means of sword and scythe

I adore You, Who gifted my Ancestors ways to come closer to the Gods

I adore You, Who taught my Ancestors rebirth

I adore You, Who gifts me with all I need to live

I adore You, Who Brings New Growth

I adore You, Who edges the Gap

I adore You, Who mingled with Ice, blessing us with tundra and Winter

I adore You, Who mingled with Ice, held Auðhumbla, and Ymir

I adore You, Who, mingled with Water, blessed us with the holy oceans and rainforests

I adore You, Who, mingled with Water, gives Life to all things

I adore You, Who mingled with Fire, gives rise to new soil with volcanoes

I adore You, Who mingled with Fire, allows us to cook our food

I adore You, Who, mingled with Air, carries the seeds to new life

I adore You, Who, mingled with Air, brings the swollen clouds to farm, field, and garden

I adore You, Whose Presence lies beneath our feet and within our hearts

I adore You, Whose Presence seals corruption

I adore You, Who blesses the farmer

I adore You, Whose Body is the bard's instrument and voice

I adore You, Who gives the storyteller immortality

I adore You, Who girds the warrior

I adore You, Whose Form is part of our own

I adore You, Whose Form dances with us

I adore You, Whose Voice sings with us

I adore You, Whose Form gives us pleasure and pain

I adore You, Whose Form is holiness

I adore You, Whose Patience is Great

I adore You, Whose Temper is Fierce

I adore You, Whose Womb birthed us all

I adore You, Whose Body gives us rest

I adore You, Who digests the corpse

I adore You, Who is our home

I adore You, Whose wrath brings new land

I adore You, Who scours the unclean

I adore You, Who holds back the cold

I adore You, Who gives Form to the Worlds

I adore You, Whose Flesh is the soil and ground of Midgard

I adore You, Whose Presence grounds Creation

I adore You, Whose Threads are Woven in Wyrd,

From the Deepest Cavern to the Highest Peak,

I adore You, Earth

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