~ May 14
Goddess, come near. Accept our worship.
Bless us. Let us prosper. Bring us fruit.
May our furrows be straight and deep.
May you, rich as milk, feed us deeply.
You are the center of the altar
where we make sacrifice.
You are the priestess and the farmer.
You are the living earth itself.
—Indian prayers from Rig Veda and Harivamsa
These Indian prayers remind us of the connection the ancients saw between the earth and humankind—a connection that was continually reinforced by ritual. Ritual need not be complex or elaborate. Something as simple as bowing to the rising sun was an important ritual to many people throughout the world. Rituals like that, and the sacrifices of first fruits typical of farming folk, reminded those who performed them of the complex interconnections between the earth and her children.
What rituals do we perform today? Instead of bowing to the sun, we turn on the radio. Instead of offering our first fruits, we buy new clothes. We have become, as a nation, mindless consumers of the earth’s gifts. What if, for one day, we thanked the goddess for every gift as we accepted it? How might our consciousness, our world, be transformed?
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