Ostara's Day By Donald Meinshausen
There was the pagan custom of spending the long winter months sewing new clothes and shoes (the only shoes you could associate with crucifixion are cross training shoes). These new items were shown during Ostara's festival as was the fashion. Easter Parade, the only popular song of Easter, shows how this custom has since degenerated to such a materialistic farce that even a drag queen would not participate in it. So I have decided to throw my hat in and made some alterations to this song to restore this holiday to its original fit. Here I use the fertility of my imagination which has come from a hominess of not plenty which is making me an Easter basket case with an egg-sistentialist dilemma
Take off your Ostara bonnet
And put your clothes upon it
And I'll make you the happiest lady
On Ostara's Day
I'll roll you in the clover
And when it's finally over
We'll be the happiest couple on
Ostara's Day
I'll be having you
On the Avenue
The photographers will snap us
And we'll make a fortune on the video
Oh I could write a sonnet
If you’d say yes, doggone it
And make me the happiest fella
On Ostara’s Day
And put your clothes upon it
And I'll make you the happiest lady
On Ostara's Day
I'll roll you in the clover
And when it's finally over
We'll be the happiest couple on
Ostara's Day
I'll be having you
On the Avenue
The photographers will snap us
And we'll make a fortune on the video
Oh I could write a sonnet
If you’d say yes, doggone it
And make me the happiest fella
On Ostara’s Day
Asatru Autumn
by Don Meinshausen
by Don Meinshausen
We ask your prayers on this eve for us
Share this word and believe for us
Come to our Hall
'When Summer is taking leaf of us
Pray the Asatru belief of us
So say we All
'While Summer's heat was a grief for us
So now we have some relief of us
The crops stand Tall
The harvest now shows its leaves for us
The tree colors that it weaves for us
Begin the Fall
So passing time be a thief for us
And Autumn will be too brief for us
That's Nature's Call
Sacred Memory retrieves for us
Through time's rub the pain allieves for us
Follow the Ball
Round our head do not bereave for us
Rather here just do believe for us
Such is our Caul
Remember those who took leave of us
In their world they will grieve for us
So ends the Pall
ODIN
Asatru Toast (PDF Version)
by Don Meinshausen
So hear dis guise - seer
Is what I ask
For Nature's cries - hear
Now from this mask
Life wisdom's highs - here
A solemn task
So brothers rise - we're
In light we bask
Field's grain sends prize - beer
Taste as damask
Our harvest cries - Tyr
Fill up our cask
To Odin wise - Cheer!
And raise your flask!
Odin
What a Friend We Have in Cheeses
by Don Meinshausen
Give us this day our dairy bread is a different interpretation of a famous meal that has been franchised all over the world usually with just bread and wine. Most of the time very little bread, somewhat stiff and stale is served turning everyone crackers thereby embarrassing even the stingiest of Hosts. The wine is so miniscule that even the stingiest of bartenders would oppose this razing of the bar. Some naves would even withhold even this or offer grape juice instead.
There was a heretical sect of Christians who added cheese to the bread and wine anticipating the yuppie phenomenon hundreds of years later. In another way they were combining the nurturing aspect of the God (wheat or bread) with the Goddess (cheese or dairy) which everyone admits would make a better meal; culinary, nutritionally if not spiritually. Perhaps the early Christian church rejected the cheese because they were vegan. They were definitely lactose intolerant as we now know little of this group's existence after they were creamed not even leaving a dairy, just a cheesy reputation.
Since the early Christians borrowed so much from our Pagan ancestors (and they are welcome to it since imitation is the most sincere form of flattery) I have decided to borrow the melody from one of their most famous hymns changing it to a "hers". This way we will know what a friend we have in Jesus and milk it for what its worth.
What a friend we have in cheeses,
Edam, Swiss and Gruyere
And Havarti with caraway
Camembert with a pear
Oh what pizza we often forfeit
When mozzarella we omit
With dairy we can take our ease
Just mind that you don't cut the cheese
(How great thou art)
(How great thou fart)
PAGAN POEMS
Pagan Humor (Done in by a Loki) (PDF)
Rally Round the Maypole (PDF)
Santa's Shamanic Journey (PDF)
Sun Fire (PDF)
To Cleanse a Sacred River (PDF)
What a Friend We Have in Cheeses (PDF)
SUN FIRE
By Donald Meinshausen
Melody - Crazy World of Arthur Brown
Pagan Humor (Done in by a Loki) (PDF)
Rally Round the Maypole (PDF)
Santa's Shamanic Journey (PDF)
Sun Fire (PDF)
To Cleanse a Sacred River (PDF)
What a Friend We Have in Cheeses (PDF)
SUN FIRE
By Donald Meinshausen
Melody - Crazy World of Arthur Brown
| Sun fire, Summer's Delight We'll see you burn Sun's Fire; Baldur is Light From you we learn | Sun Fire, Sun at its height And the World Turns Baldur, Odin's Delight As the World Turns |
The World's Way is not to be spurned
For to do so is to be burned
Yes that is the way we know
And it always has been so
So on we go - on we go
| Baldur, pride of our sight Can fire be turned Baldur, target all right Your fates concern | Baldur, emblem so bright So you're not burned Baldur, so is the rite Past and modern |
The world's way is to be turned
That's the way we've always learned
This is the way that winds blow
And the way the oceans flow
So on we row-on we row
| Baldur, now struck with might Now will we burn | Baldur we see your plight Or the world turn? |
Baldur, sun becomes night
Baldur, where is our light?
When will we learn
Can you return?
The Way of Life is to be learned
The way of Strife is to be spurned
First we pray for the summer heat
Then pray for cool and then repeat
The wheel turns
The wheel turns
Fire and its return
Baldur, where is our light?
When will we learn
Can you return?
The Way of Life is to be learned
The way of Strife is to be spurned
First we pray for the summer heat
Then pray for cool and then repeat
The wheel turns
The wheel turns
Fire and its return
RUNESTONES
Runestones are an ancient alphabet similar to ancient Greek and Hebrew. It can be carved on rock, flint. stones or tiles. These dinosaur rock groups were similar to more contemporary rock groups. These Rolling Stones came from older rock groups which got together at Stonehenge and were meant to imprint meaning to a culture not understood by many of those alive today. They were formed by those who moved these huge blocs by logs and pushed as the first rock'n'rollers. They were known as shamen which is short for Sha-na-na. Huge blocs in the rock world are still moved by logs today as rock is now based on micro chips. Stonehenge is a large structure holding musical events that is known for its large blocks of mutually supporting rock groups in a concerted effort to worship the stars and to help crowds celebrate their rock culture. They had over arching support so they also seamed boulder than the Runestones though both were rock idols from the Stone Age.
The Stones were moved by those who used Heavy Metal (Rod Stewarts) throughout the land after they left the underground. The Stones were known to be first moved by The Quarrymen or so it was told by Lennonist activists, who working with Paulist missionaries discovered Ringo patterns made by drums in a Gorge by Harrison where worship of a cult of insect worshippers (Beatlemania) was known to exist. Christian scholars that wrote that the Stones at Stonehenge were the scene of human sacrifices have been disproved. Since they live in stained glass houses they shouldn't throw stones. The Stones are clean, at least in this regard. The Dead were Grateful for this reverence since they were Warlocks.
Runestones were smaller iconic groups that etched a more mobile, personal and divined message and can move to meet future needs. Some were just into logos or symbols but it's for lettered folk found in many loci. They have raised 0 din among its adherents causing some to go berserk. Runes also made their mark at memorials so that they were known as a tribute group. The cultural range of Stonehenge rock groups to Runestones would go from Bard to Norse as groups would go forth across northern Europe in a battle of the bands in a rubble-yes quest for rock glory and in pursuit of art, divination and cult celebration. This meant many devotees who would wear the images in their honor.
I will now attempt to fuse together this ancient culture with more modern culture that described ancient times. I have written a song with a melody dug from an ancient dig in TVland that celebrated New Stone Age culture. This is truly dinosaur rock. It showed ancient family relationships animated by a desire to communicate with the young today in a Hanna-Barbarous manner. Rock on, dudes.
When I first start this song I will invoke the most famous of Nordic rock bands today; ABBA. When I end this song I will invoke the Will's Mother Goddess.
ABBA-D'ABBA-DO!!!
Runestones, know your Runestones,
To know your ancient pagan family
They are part of the bedrock
Of your way in Nordic history
Know your kennings to know times of the past
Foretell a new future with a rune forecast
When you know your Runestones
You'll know yourself in old times
As well as in the new times
And you'1l have a great old time
WILL-MA!!!
Runestones, know your Runestones,
To know your ancient pagan family
They are part of the bedrock
Of your way in Nordic history
Know your kennings to know times of the past
Foretell a new future with a rune forecast
When you know your Runestones
You'll know yourself in old times
As well as in the new times
And you'1l have a great old time
WILL-MA!!!
The Mystery of the Eddas
by Don Meinshausen
by Don Meinshausen
This song is dedicated to Odin and his horse Sleipner. The stories of Norse mythology are in the Eddas which came from Iceland and northern Europe. They are associated with magickal script called runes. The rune that signifies this song is Ehwaz which is the rune of travel between otherworldly realms to receive inforn1ation and inspiration. This ability is based on polarities that move energy by their dynamic interplay like humor and drama.
It is also a symbol of the harmony of interactions of energies working within polarities such as the symbiotic relationship of a horse and rider. Tacitus mentioned the horse as a sacred obj ect among the ancient Germanic tribes. Some cultures would have horses as holy sacrifices or symbols for worship. A mount was to be mounted so as to be charged with devotion.
Odin, the All Father, gave one of his eyes for wisdom. This eye after losing its wisdom reproduced itself infinitely all over the world and we know it today as television. There was some residue of the milk of human wisdom from this pap culture which I have magickally reinfused into a more modem form. This was in order to entertain the new myriad eyes of the internet with the wisdom of our culture. I write songs with pagan themes with the melodies of that prosaic popular art fonn of our recent past culture, TV. I have chosen a show about a horse and his owner to show this.
Horses are known for their loyalty and kind when their owners are kind to them. They are intelligent and can communicate with their owners. They even have a sense of humor and are known to engage in pranks or horseplay. Stories about horses can be a hit or myth affair even when given free rein
This show named after the horse was named after the mane character that had "horse sense", strong "animal magnetism" and still had all four feet on the ground. (not a bit character at all). He would bridle at any attempt to stall him. He talked to his friend only in private (in the barn to give him a stable environment) to give advice to give his owner, Wilbur, a Mr-Ed-ucation. Wilbur was a creative architect and therefore a modem magician. He showed humor, humility, patience and cleverness to harness these abilities with his magical horse to overcome the problems of his world, which is a situation and comedy.
A Norse and his Horse, a source, of course
And must be true to his Source and Course
This today is known as the Force
Or the Mystery of the Eddas
You can yakety yak to seek
And waste your time of day
But the runes will never speak
Unless they have something to say
So if you're seeking wisdom's course
Here's a message that we endorse
Study the runes of the Ancient Norse
The Wisdom of the Eddas!
And must be true to his Source and Course
This today is known as the Force
Or the Mystery of the Eddas
You can yakety yak to seek
And waste your time of day
But the runes will never speak
Unless they have something to say
So if you're seeking wisdom's course
Here's a message that we endorse
Study the runes of the Ancient Norse
The Wisdom of the Eddas!
My Favorite Kinks
By Donald Meinshausen
With apologies to Richard Rodgers
By Donald Meinshausen
With apologies to Richard Rodgers
The saying that all acts of love and pleasure are my rituals is an established standard of some sybarites. While these may seem joyful and unconstrained there is an alternative view that finds pleasure in its opposite. They would say my favorite things are whips and chains. While I am not of this discipline I believe that if you can't join them, beat them. Therefore I submit this song with its own beat. I have taken great pains with this song hoping that you might receive the same. The melody should seem familiar with anyone who knows the sound of music. I like the idea that the melody comes from a play that seems so totally opposite to message of this song. Therefore it makes sense to put S&M in the Sound of Music. So strike up the band or band up the strikers.
Raven haired beauties all tied up in leather
With clips on their nipples
And tickled with a feather
Weirder things than you can possibly think
These are few of my favorite kinks
Who wants to save a damsel in distress?
When you could be a man from the SS
Or a dominatrix with a heart of a lynx
They are a few of my favorite kinks
When the bitch bites
When the whip stings
When I'm behaving bad
I simply remember my favorite kinks
And then I believe
I've been had
With clips on their nipples
And tickled with a feather
Weirder things than you can possibly think
These are few of my favorite kinks
Who wants to save a damsel in distress?
When you could be a man from the SS
Or a dominatrix with a heart of a lynx
They are a few of my favorite kinks
When the bitch bites
When the whip stings
When I'm behaving bad
I simply remember my favorite kinks
And then I believe
I've been had
If you think that this one was bad how about "How do solve a problem like Sharia?" Since I'm on a droll without a roll, I'll write about one of my favorite things as well
Dough is dear, good to have near
'Ray, I've got to get me some Me,
I want just for myself
Fa, for a good long run
So, it's off to work I go Lal
Or maybe stay in bed
Tea, I have run out, oh no
Which brings us back to dough
'Ray, I've got to get me some Me,
I want just for myself
Fa, for a good long run
So, it's off to work I go Lal
Or maybe stay in bed
Tea, I have run out, oh no
Which brings us back to dough