Speaking to the Goddess: Prayers, Invocations, Songs, Mantras, Chants, Rituals

"Mighty, majestic, and radiant,
You shine brilliantly in the evening,
You brighten the day at dawn,
You stand in the heavens like the sun and the moon,
Your wonders are known both above and below,
To the greatness of the Holy Priestess of Heaven,
To you, Inanna, I sing!"
-   Diane Wolkstein, Inanna

"Obsience to Her
Who is Pure Being, Consciousness, Bliss.
As Power,
Who Exists in the Forms of Time and Space,
And All That is Therein,
Who is the Divine Illuminatrix in All Beings."
- A Tantric Prayer

"Yah Devi sarva bhuteshu,
vishnumayeti shabditaa
Namastasyai, namastasyai,
namastasyai namoh namaha"
This goddess, who in all things, exists as the very form of God.
I bow to you, I bow to you, I bow to you, again and again."
- Yah Devi (This Goddess)
Krishna Das, Pilgrim Heart

"Oh Goddess, Source of Gods and Mortals,
All-Fertile, All-Destroying Gaia,
Mother of All, Who brings forth the bounteous fruits and flowers,
All variety, Maiden who anchors the eternal world in our own,
Immortal, Blessed, crowned with every grace,
Deep bosomed Earth, sweet plains and fields fragrant grasses in the nurturing rains,
Around you fly the beauteous stars, eternal and divine,
Come, Blessed Goddess, and hear the prayers of Your children,
And make the increase of the fruits and grains your constant care,
With the fertile seasons Your handmaidens,
Draw near, and bless your supplicants."
- Orphic Hym to Gaia, Translated by Virginia Stewart.

"Hail Diana
Hail Artemis Diana
Blessed Lady of the Beasts
I dedicate myself to You
May my path honor Thee
May my spirit celebrate Thee
May my life force magnify Thee
These things I pray
Be fulfilled this day
Goddess Mother help me
To know what is right."
- Goddess Prayers and Invocations

"Fair as a jasmine flower, the moon or a flake of snow,
Dressed in white, her hands adorned by the graceful veena staff,
Adorned by Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva, and the other deities,
Protect me, Oh Goddess Saraswati, remover of ignorance."
- Hindu Goddess

"I, Isis, am all that hath been that is or shall be,
I, who made light from my feathers, The wind from my wings,
No mortal man ever hath me unveiled! - Until now."
- Invocation of Isis

"I went there of my own free will.
I went there in my finest gown,
With my rarest Jewels
With my Queen of Heaven crown.
In the Underworld
At each of the Seven Gates
I was stripped Seven times
Of all I thought I was
Till I stood bare in who I really am."
- Inanna, Goddess for Embracing the Shadows

"Devi prachanda dora danda daitya
darpa winashine
Roopam dehi jayam dehi
Yasho dehi dwisho jahi."
Oh Goddess, with your great staff you have
destroyed the demons of egoism and thought.
Grant me freedom, victory, fame and destroy all hositility."
- Devi Puja (Worship of the Goddess)
Krishna Das, Pilgrim Heart

Inanna, Istar, Ashtart: "She was addressed as"Mother of the Fruitful Breast", Queen of Heaven, Light of the World,
Creator of People, Mother of Deities, River of Life, etc. The breast-offering pose suggested her function as the Goddess
of all nourishment and fertility. Ishtar, also known as Innana in Sumeria is, above all, a lunar Goddess who gives life
as the waxing moon and then withdraws it as the waning moon. The light and dark dimensions to her power, her
dying and resurrected son-lover Tammuz, who annually descends to the underworld and rises again from it-all
suggest a lunar mythology which revolves around the connection made between the light and dark lunar phases
and rhythmic alteration of the Earth's fertility."
- Angels and Earthly Beings

"Shining Lady of Asgard,
All-seeing, all-knowing,
at Your command worlds are born,
at Your nod and tender smile, life burst into being.
Valiant Goddess, ruthless foe, cunning Queen,
Illuminate your wyrd.
Strengthen our hamyngja.
Make us fruitful in all things, like the barley and flax that is your gift.
Nourish our souls, God-Mother,
Pour forth from Your cornucopia of abundance
and in return we will give You our devotion, our praise, our industry.
Holy Mother of all life, foremost amongst the Asynjur, bestow upon us Your wisdom.
Make our hearts fertile fields for Your bounty, and on Your spindle of shimmering starlight,
Weave for us a joyous fate."

Prayer to Ma Durga

"O Universal Mother!
Create fresh ideas for innovation in our minds.
Glorify true feeling of love in our hearts.
Develop a purposeful vision in our Spirit.
Amplify every signal of happiness in our life.

O Universal Mother!
Evolve compassion and kindness in our attitude.
Extend true love and lovely wishes in our hearts.
Expand our thinking pattern toward all directions.
Globalize the spirit of humanity in our world.

O Universal Mother!
We are thy little children.
Spread thou eternal bless everywhere for everyone and
Fuse all our thoughts for construction of creative ideas.
Harmonize our every thought, words and actions.
Integrate our minds, hearts and spirits.
and unify our souls with infinite soul.
For attaining the final journey of all human beings."
- Prayer to the Goddess Durga, by Ajay Kumar Singh

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The Goddess Oracle. By Amy Sophia Marashinsky. Illustrated by Hrana Janto. Element, Harper Collins, UK. ISBN: 000714587X.

Goddess Prayers and Invocations European Wiccan Pagan tradition. An extensive collection of information and ideas by Abby Willowroot for the Pagan community.

Invoke the Goddess: Visualizations of Hindu, Greek and Egyptian Deities. By Kala Trobe. St. Paul, Minnesota, Llewellyn Pubs., 2000. Index, bibliography, 207 pages. ISBN: 1567184316. VSCL.

The Living Goddesses. By Marija Gimbutas. Edited by Miriam Robbins Dexter. University of California Press, 2001. 306 pages. ISBN: 0520229150.

The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Great Goddess. Rituals, invocations, exercises, and magic. By Starhawk. 10th Anniversary Edition, Revised and updated. Bibliography, index, 288 pages. ISBN: 0062508148. VSCL.

When God Was a Woman. By Merlin Stone. Horcourt, 1978. 320 pages. ISBN: 015696158X.

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Speaking to the Goddess Prayers, Invocations, Songs, Mantras, Chants, Rituals Research by Michael P. Garofalo Green Way Research, Red Bluff, California

Speaking to the Goddess
Prayers, Invocations, Songs, Mantras, Chants, Rituals

Research by
Michael P. Garofalo
Green Way Research, Red Bluff, California