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...guidance, orientation and clarity in the mist of information, the veil of conciousnesses surrounding us.

I invite you to focus on that and share your prayer and meditation to recieve awareness and insight in the inner and outer world of your mind. To open your eyes to the universe.

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Boosts are welcome.

The first words I say

in the morning when I rise:

May Rhiannon's steeds be about my family.

I shall wear my Queen's

protection; She hears my cries.

I fear no evils when Her strong shields surround me.

I shall arm myself

splendidly with Her wisdom,

Her golden radiance will pour forth like honey.

I journey Her path,

Feel Her call in my bosom,

I follow the way She illumines before me.

I have set my mind

and intent on Her graces.

I will honor Her with my every act and breath.

Her birds' sweet singing

will wrap me in embraces

of melodious peace when my eyes close in death.

Sovereignty's saddle

borne on Her back alone,

with easy gait rides the Shining Jewel of my sky.

Rose and the apple,

Great Mother's love is Her throne.

Crown of Winter, Her shining hope lifts my heart high.

--by Jenny Brown, inspired by: "The First Word I Say" from the Black Book of Carmarthen as translated by Owen Davies in "Celtic Christianity in Early Medieval Wales" (1996). University of Wales Press, Cardiff.

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A bedtime prayer to #Cissonios was conceptualized by @dianmanios working from Delamarre's interpretation of Cissonios as *cit-souno- 'qui apporte des rêves' (He Who brings dreams). Cissonios had a Mercurial cult throughout the Keltiké that De Bernardo Stempel views as economic. She proposes a different analysis of His name, relating it to the root *kistā 'woven basket'—in reference to vessels for goods, perhaps like the cornucopia that adorns one of His altars.

In Old Irish, ces (< *kistā) could also refer to a coracle (boat). This could certainly be fitting for a God of travels and commerce. Dianmanios also reminded me how #Nodens, God of the Sea, had an incubatory cult (beds in His temple for worshippers to rest, for the purpose of dreaming and healing).

Finally, we found prayers in #CarminaGadelica that feature maritime symbolism and imagery for sleep and dreams—this is the source of the terminology I used for this prayer.

All of this together led me to an "inter alia" interpretation of Cissonios that weaves these threads into one: A God of journeying, Who leads our barque to the peaceful Sea of Dreams.

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