Calendar of the Sun 5 Yulmonath Festival of Faunus Colour: Green Element: Earth Altar: Upon cloth of green set a bowl of soil, gathered earlier in the year, and many small cups of soil, the figure of a goat, a plate of cookies shaped like goats, and a cup of wine. In the large bowl set many sticks of incense, with a single stick in each cup. Offerings: Give seeds to people with gardens. Daily Meal: Vegetarian Invocation to Faunus Hail Blessed Faunus, Benefactor of the Fields! You whose name means Favoured One, Favor us, as we stand here today! Favor our fields, that they may yield. Favor our gardens, that they may grow. Favor our flocks, that they may increase. Favor our faith, that it may grow as well. Give us increase and abundance of all good things, Enough to help us through times of dearth. Give us luck, that we may find our way Past all the obstacles that cannot be Surmounted by skill alone. Smile on us, Faunus, Gladsome One, Goat-horned and goat-hooved Like the animals you watch over, Let those in our care not go hungry Nor suffer the pangs of thirst. Show us the future, Oracular One, And we pray that it may be a future We can all look forward to. Hail, Faunus, Father of Bona Dea, Son and wife of Marica the nymph, Called Lupercus, He who wards off the Wolf, Ward the evil from our lives And watch over us as your flock. (The wine is poured out as a libation. One takes the great bowl of earth and purifies the altar room with its smoke. All others take a cup and walk alone to some place in the House or the lands in order to purify that place with the smoke.)
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