Ceremonies and Rituals

== Stone Followers ==
=== Midsummer Night Ritual ===
By the shadow of the Stone,
In the shade of the night,
As they leave their burrows
On your Midsummer Night,
We the moles of Duncton Stone
See our young with blessing sown.
We bathe their paws in showers of dew,
We free their fur with wind from the west,
We bring them choice soil,
Sunlight in life.
We ask they be blessed
With a sevenfold blessing:
The grace of form
The grace of goodness
The grace of suffering
The grace of wisdom
The grace of true words
The grace of trust
The grace of whole-souled loveliness.
We bathe their paws in showers of light,
We free their souls with the talons of love,
We ask that they hear the silent Stone.
=== Healing Ritual ===
Power of the Stone come into thee
All of thee in quiet;
Power of the sun come into thee
A part of thee in warmth;
Power of the moon come into thee
A part of thee feel cool;
Power of the rain come into thee
A part of thee refreshed;
Power of death depart from thee
Taken by the Stone;
Power of life return to thee
Borrowed from the Stone;
Power of the Stone is with thee
For you are the Stone,
All of you the Stone.
=== Scribemole Ritual ===
Stone, give him/her thy strength
Stone, give him/her thy wisdom
Stone, give him/her courage, give him/her purpose,
Stone, direct his/her long journey,
Silence, to hear
Silence, to listen
Silence, to know
Silence, to love
Stone, help him/her always.
Initiator: Do you, (name), vow always to scribe true?
Response: (I do.)
Initiator: Do you, (name), vow to seek Silence?
Response: (I do.)
Initiator: Do you, (name), son/daughter of (mother's name), son/daughter of (father's name) and sponsored by myself, (name of initiator) of (system name of initiator), vow to follow the hardest way, which is the scribemole's way: which is to love the unloved, to love where love seems lost, to love where love would have you die, to love yet not possess, to love when love is not returned, to scribe with love what truth you know, and be guided in all these things by the Silence that is of the Stone?
Response: (I do.)
Stone, accept (name) of (system's name) as a worthy mole,
Stone, help him/her always.
Stone, embrace him/her with thy Silence.
=== A Stone's Grace ===
(said before a meal)
Be with us, Stone, at the start of our feast.
Be with us, Stone, at the close of our meal.
Let nomole adown our bodies
That may hurt our sorrowing souls,
Oh nomole adown our bodies
That may hurt our sorrowing souls.
=== Grace of Uffington ===
(said before a meal)
Give us, O Stone, with the morning meal
Health to the body, joy to the soul
Give us, O Stone, of the final worm
Enough for our need in the silence of sleep
To the greedy, too much
To the austere, good humour
To the wasteful, no second chance
To the unloved, thy love
That all may eat and be well blessed.
== Word Followers ==
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