Nidhogg's Day Invocation

from the Pagan Book of Hours

Nidhogg featherNidhogg's Blot  - 15 Blutmonath

Pagan Book of Hours

Order of the Horae

First Kingdom Church of Asphodel

Color: Black

Element: Earth

Altar: On a black cloth set several bare tree branches in an earthenware vase, a horn of mead, and the figure of a dragon.

Offerings: Pieces of wood with the name of a missed duty scratched on them.

Daily Meal: Tree fruit such as apples or pears or cherries or peaches.

Invocation to Nidhogg

At the base of the great World Tree

Dwells a black dragon

Whose name is Nidhogg,

Whose sole task is gnawing

At the roots of Yggdrasil.

As quickly as it gnaws away,

New growth comes forth

In a never-ceasing spiral.

At the base of each soul

Dwells a black dragon

Whose name is Conscience,

Whose sole job is gnawing

On our blithe thoughtlessness.

As it gnaws and forces us

To do what should be done,

It clears away our disorder

And allows for new growth

In the tangle of our lives.

Teach us, gnawer at the roots,

How to listen and decide.

Chant:

Roots of the Tree,

Hidden, mysterious,

Reveal them to me,

Dragon of Earth.

(Each person shall snap a twig from the branches on the altar and take it with them, laying it under their pillow to remember Nidhogg and their own consciences. The mead is passed around and shared, and the remainder poured out as a libation to Nidhogg.) 

 

Artwork by Heather Schumacher.