Credits and Sources
Sources for both Sabbats and Esbats include uncredited Pagan Way material, and the training rituals of Oak Wind, Windsinger, Hearthsong, and Silver Oak Gardnerian Outer Courts, and the following additional sources;
The Group Goddess Invocation is altered from a passage in the novel Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny, which in the original text was attributed to, "Aryatarabhattarikanamashtottarasatakastotra (36-40)."
The New Moon Invocation is altered from, "Sounds of Silence" by Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel.
The Lammas chant is altered from “Oats and Beans and Barley Grow,” a traditional folk song.
Additional Yule material from, “Giver of Life” by Lady Akasha Windsinger; “Joy to the World,“ traditional Christmas carol; and from A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.
Some ritual material also from works found in "The Norton Anthology of Poetry," fourth edition, taken and altered from the following specific pieces:
Additional reseach into Sabbat meanings and observances from Wheel of the Year by Pauline Campenelli.
All other works written by Hexeengel.
Art appearing on this site from various internet sources.
The Group Goddess Invocation is altered from a passage in the novel Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny, which in the original text was attributed to, "Aryatarabhattarikanamashtottarasatakastotra (36-40)."
The New Moon Invocation is altered from, "Sounds of Silence" by Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel.
The Lammas chant is altered from “Oats and Beans and Barley Grow,” a traditional folk song.
Additional Yule material from, “Giver of Life” by Lady Akasha Windsinger; “Joy to the World,“ traditional Christmas carol; and from A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.
Some ritual material also from works found in "The Norton Anthology of Poetry," fourth edition, taken and altered from the following specific pieces:
- Full Moon Invocation: “Queen and Huntress” by Ben Jonson and “A Nocturnal Reverie” by Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea
- Waning Moon Invocation: “Ode to the West Wind” by Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Waning Moon Ritual poem: an untitled sonnet by William Shakespeare
- Waxing Moon Invocation: “The Blessed Damozel” by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
- Imbolc chant: “The Tyger” by William Blake
- Second Beltane call and response: “O Mistress Mine” from “Twelfth Night” by William Shakespeare
- Opening Fall Equinox invocations: “Reapers” and “Harvest Song” by Jean Toomer
- Final Yule speech: “Song of Myself” by Walt Whitman
Additional reseach into Sabbat meanings and observances from Wheel of the Year by Pauline Campenelli.
All other works written by Hexeengel.
Art appearing on this site from various internet sources.