Wake the Old Gods and Goddesses

Low voices, breath, drum like a heartbeat Vakni... Vakni... We remember. Ash smoke rises from the old stone, Raven circling the bare bone, Roots below run deep and cold, Where the stories sleep untold. I walk the path where no cross stands, Bare feet upon the frozen land, Hear the whisper in the trees, Hear them calling me... drums double, voices layer Hear! The mountain cracks, The sea withdraws, Wake the Old Gods! Wake the Old Goddesses! Odin! Thor! Tyr, hear our voices! Freyja! Frigg! Hel, Eir, Skadi! From earth and sky, from blood and sea, WAKE! Wake the Old Gods! Wake the Old Goddesses! Light the fire, let the old world breathe! We are your children, we have not left! WAKE! WAKE! WAKE! One-Eyed Wanderer, on Yggdrasil high, You gave an eye to see beyond the sky, Give us sight, All-Father, Odin wise, Let your ravens be our eyes. Golden-haired Freyja, Vanir queen, Seeress, lover, fierce and keen, Teach our hearts to love and fight, In death, in lust, in life! [Ritual Bridge - Female Lead + Choir] Everything drops to just drum and drone, female voice soaring Sisters of fate, spin the thread again, Urd, Verdandi, Skuld! What was cut, let it be mended, What was bound, let it be free! Male throat singing joins, call and response: We call you! - We hear you! We blood you! - We hold you! We wake you! - We rise! Full war drums, chanting, choir WAKE THE OLD GODS AND GODDESSES! From fjord and fell, from ice and tree! WAKE THE OLD GODS AND GODDESSES! Return to us, as we return to thee! Thor with hammer, break the chain! Freyja with fury, take the pain! Not dead, not gone, not lost at all, Just waiting for our call! Vakni... Vakni... We remember. We are awake.