Parthenogenesis Lyrics
PARTHENOGENESIS
Words and Music by Ruth
Barrett
Can you see her wading near the
shoreline?
Can you see her wading near the shore?
Arms raised to the
evening chill in midnight
Goose-bump flesh and white foam meet the roar
Legs parted to the sea
Legs parted to the
sea
What is she doing in the sea foam?
What is she doing?
She is giving birth to herself
Dance of joy to the stars
Loved by the
silvery ocean
She is born in waves of pleasure and emotion
Stepping into icy waves of motion
She
balances entwined around the kelp
Translucent cells are pulling in her
stillness
The very will of Life creates itself
Legs parted to the sea
Legs parted to the
sea
Life is her lover, Earth is her home
Life is her lover
Dance of joy to the stars …
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CRONE
Words by Ruth Barrett, Music by Ruth
Barrett and Cyntia Smith
Untie a knot, tie a new knot
Bind it and
set it free
Untie a knot, tie a new knot
Bind it and set it free
Take me in your twisted hand, old woman
With each wrinkle I am yours in the end
Twist the twine weaver of
time
Your destiny is mine
I raise my eyes into my eyes
And there I see you beckoning
Conspirator, adventurer
Upon the spiral way
Whose approach is creamed
away in lies
You are not refused in me
Whose whisper now is deafening
I watch you weaving patiently
Untie a knot …
Holy Mother of the Web,
Widow of the
spider’s tread
Sister spinners, weavers all,
Dance upon the
harpy’s claw
Fill the void with sacred rage,
Rattle the bars and
free the cage
Shatter silence with your cries
Sister flyers, pierce
the skies
Untie a knot …
Like the snake that sheds its skin,
Letting transformation take me
The golden chrysalis hangs by a thread
As I look within
Where one leaves off and the next begins,
In your
chaos will I bide
Shadow spinster, Moerae,
Guide me to the other
side
Untie a knot …
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DANU
Original words by Ruth Barrett,
adapted from traditional Scots "MacCrimmon’s Lament."
Melody
traditional.
Round Coolin’s Peak the moon is gleaming
The banshee wails her note of keening
And my blue ‘een with
sorrow are streaming
For Danu is grieving, the Mother is leaving
No more, no more, no more forever
Will
her gift of wild roses be taken
No more, no more, no more forever
Beloved of her people, forsaken
The breeze on the brae is mournfully moaning
The brook in the harrow is plaintively groaning
And my blue ‘een
with sorrow are streaming
For Danu is ridden, the Mother forbidden
No more, no more, no more forever
No more
do Her children remember
No more, no more, no more forever
Do hearts
and minds invoke Her
I whisper her name upon the mountain
Her
voice calls to me through the fountain
And my blue ‘een with gladness
are streaming
For Danu is giving, the Mother is living
No more, no more, no more forever
No
more will Her children deny Her
We dawn the new day that ends the burning
The Mother is once more returning
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KADISTU (HOLY WOMAN)
Words and Music by
Ruth Barrett
Raven-haired Kadistu, full lipped, and spicy
wet.
Circle my body in your radiance.
Circle my body in your
radiance.
Dark eyes to journey deep, separate one, full
one,
Savor her gentleness when the world grows cold.
Savor her
gentleness when the world grows cold.
Abandon your fears in her embrace,
And
find the embodiment of heaven and earth.
Petalled labyrinth to secret pathways of the
heart.
Queen of Love, whose kiss is life.
Queen of Love, whose kiss
is life.
Breathing, releasing, the sigh of the
universe,
Smiling, she’s opening, and births a new star.
Smiling, she’s opening, and births a new star.
Shudder of awe awakens each cell.
Pulse
of time where time knows no end.
Rocking the sea, a tidal wave of salt spray.
Pouring herself into each quake.
Pouring herself into each quake.
I love, she loves, tasting of mysteries,
The dawn’s silky dew.
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INVOCATION TO FREE WOMEN
Words by Ruth
Barrett and Felicity A. Flowers
Traditional Melody Adapted by Ruth
Barrett
It wasn't very long ago in the early
morning
I dreamt of women wild and free, or slavery unknowing
I awoke,
I awoke to distant voices fading
The vision of what might have been
Dissolved in slumber's waning
Hecate, Hecate, Wise One of the Crossroads
Guide our path through darkest night
To the truth within us
It wasn't very long ago, my senses can
remember
They tore the baby from the breast, and then refused to feed her
Crying, crying, through countless wars and plunder
They took our
Goddess, and our lives, our bodies torn asunder
Kali, Kali, Queen of Storms and Rages
Pierce through lies of mind and heart
As we bring the changes
We have come and we were born to do our own
myth making
To turn the tide and end the tears, long centuries of waiting
Turn again, turn again, turn again the stories
That rendered us
invisible in history's pale glories
Gaia, Gaia, Mother of the Living
Heal our
bodies, and our souls
Grant us new beginnings
Women come together to move in one direction
To stop the raping of the world and give the Earth protection
Rising,
rising, the sacred woman soul
In us the present and the past, the future
we unfold
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SISTER’S EYES
Words by Ruth Barrett,
Music by Su Livingston
In my sister’s eyes is the darkness of
centuries lost
In my sister’s eyes there’s a buried treasure
beneath the frost
In my sister’s eyes memories of her pride
In
my sister’s eyes are dreams of flight
She rattles your doors in the deepest
night
And wakes you from sleep, her eyes burning bright
You cannot
escape them, can’t overtake them,
Try as you might
In my sister’s eyes, rage, betrayal and
lies
In my sister’s eyes, there’s a warning of danger, no
disguise
In my sister’s eyes, the mirror of those who would try
In my sister’s eyes, lives the spirit that will not die
She rattles your doors …
In my sister’s eyes stir the ashes of
the revived
In my sister’s eyes, Phoenix rising into the skies
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MIDSUMMER MADNESS / RISE MOON
Words and
Music by Ruth Barrett
In the twilight time when the colors turn
Hidden eyes within the leaves peer out unobserved
Will you walk the
path that you can see?
Or slip away between the trees?
Rustling forest sounds, like voices from the
deep
Turning round you look again in disbelief
Silent figures move in
misty form
Your head is light, your blood is warm
Voices call you close, and your body’s
yearning
Eyes of wonder as a child gaze as they turn
If invited in,
will you join the dance?
Or step away within your trance?
Is this all a dream? Or midsummer madness?
Apparitions of the mind? Or Nature’s own?
Questions of the night
ask if it’s so
The dawn brings what we’ll never know.
And when I quiet myself and my history
I
can hear the music wisdom in everything
Rise moon, with streaming hair,
Touch
this weary human care,
Lighten us to mystery,
To darkness, to change,
eternally
Forest pulse and pull me into the living
world
Creatures are of Her unquestioning, simply being
Enveloped by the tree,
I take you to me
willingly,
Whispers flicker endlessly,
In voices of an ancient sea
Rise Moon …
In the twilight time when the colors turn
Hidden eyes within the leaves peer out unobserved
Will you walk the
path that you can see?
Or slip away between the trees?
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