Title: A Year of Pagan Prayer
Series: Standalone
Author’s Name: Barbara Nolan
Publisher: Llewellyn Publications
Genre: Paganism
Page Count: 456 Pages
ISBN: 978-0738768151
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How I Got the Book: Review Copy
Summary of the Book:
This treasury of more than 350 poems, prayers, hymns, blessings, and dramatic readings provides beautiful, powerful pieces that you can use to mark holidays, milestones, and the passing of the seasons. Discover prayers to Janus from Horace and Ovid, a traditional Scottish blessing for Imbolc, an invocation to Pan by poet Helen Bantock, a salutation to the sun by Aleister Crowley, a pharoah’s hymn to Isis, a song for Lammas by Gwydion Pendderwen, and many, many more.
In addition to readings and blessings for Pagan holidays and other special days throughout the year, you will also discover prayers for weddings and funerals and to coincide with phases of the moon. Author Barbara Nolan includes brief historical or biographical details to contextualize each piece as well as descriptions of various holidays and festivals to help you integrate these readings into your practice.
A Year of Pagan Prayer demonstrates that the literary worship of Pagan deities was never fully lost in the West. This bounteous collection draws from the creative and spiritual legacy of Italian Renaissance poets, ancient Sumerian priestesses, twentieth-century Pagans, French Romantics, Greek playwrights, nineteenth-century British occultists, and Egyptian hymnists, making it a must-have sourcebook for anyone who yearns to embody the eloquent expressions of our Pagan past.
My Personal Review: I received a copy of this book for a fair and honest review. The book is divided up into twelve sections, one for each month. It covers both the happy times and the dark ones as well. There are songs, poems, and hymns that cover a lot of different gods and goddesses. My birthday is in the latter part of the year and I was excited to read that month. There are some of the poems that I like better than others, for example, the Faery Song. I have had a fascination with the Fair Folks for a very long time.
My Rating of the Book: 4 1/2 Stars
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