Who Has Ears To Hear

[omorka]

So apparently Sarah Palin called on her Twitter-followers to pray for divine intervention in the current BPocalypse.


Really, Ms. Drill-Baby-Drill? Well, okay, if you're sure . . .

Io, Poseidon Earth-Shaker, Mover of Waves, Bringer of Storms! We beseech you, we, who have desecrated your sacred seas, who have cast the tarry rot of the deep upon your sand shores, to turn the sea winds and currents to limit the damage of our hubris. Take the unasked-for sacrifice of the creatures of your depths, take their choked breath and stagnant blood, and rescue those we have not yet befouled, O Lord of the Seas.

Io, Hades Dispater, Keeper of the Wealth Below! We beg your pardon for plundering the depths of the earth that belong to you, for seizing the remains of the Ancient Dead without due sacrifice to you, for scarring the deep earth with drill and concrete. Seal up your treasures again, draw them back to yourself; keep the bodies of the first green things, now black with age and pressure, below mud and rock despite our clumsiness, O Lord of the Underground.

Ia, Persephone, Queen of the Dead! We ask you, who walks between the world of the living and the underworld, to seal the unholy passage we have made between the two realms. With your mother, Demeter; your grandmother, Rhea; and your great-grandmother, Gaia herself, undo what our fumbling hands have done; let mud and silt, rock and stone, once again bury the ancient algae we sought to bring once again to light. Let the carbon of the first green plants once again lie below. Keep the wild spirits of the sea safe; let them swim in the Lethe and forget our foolishness, O Lady of the Gates.

So mote it be!


. . . Wait, what do you mean that wasn't what she meant?

Comments

Hee.

[lorelein.livejournal.com]

*gigglesnort*

[peoriapeoria.livejournal.com]

I think we need at least 12 Greeks, great quantities of ouzo and several beeves.

[starcat-jewel.livejournal.com]

I think you should put this up somewhere and link to it as a response. Just make sure there's no e-mail connection between it and you.

[pinesandmaples]

I thought that was a very nice prayer.

Also, clever point!

[waterlilly.livejournal.com]

That's much better than what they had in mind, actually, and far more likely to have the desired results.

Dear Goddess: ROFLMAO. Amen.

[awbryan.livejournal.com]

1) No, that's much *better* than what she meant.
2) I think Sarah has been blessed/cursed with the ability never to notice when she's made a mistake. She thinks she's immune to hubris because she's congenitally incapable of noticing it. Would someone please tell Sophocles? We've got some _great_ source material for him.
3) Samuel Clemens, _The War Prayer_. Just sayin'.

[northwall.livejournal.com]

yeah, that's a great prayer. never occurred to SP there were other gods. heehee.

[greeneyes-rpi.livejournal.com]

So mote it be!

Beautiful prayer.

[doctorcaligari.livejournal.com]

...The sad thing is that now if anything improves, certain people will be sure it's because THEY stepped in to add their super special prayers. (*Not* the ones praying to Dispater, I trust you know I mean.)

However, at this point, I will turn my nose up at no prayer to *any* god/dess who might happen to be paying attention. Can't hurt! :-)

[kathrynt.livejournal.com]

What a perfectly lovely prayer. So mote it be.