Hymn to Rigantona at Calan MaiRigantona, I strew rose petals about your altar
For your coming from the Otherworld. Spring is all about us The hawthorn tree has leaves Emerging from the Otherworld I feel your presence in the blossoming boughs, In the flowers of the fields, In the green leaves and the many-coloured petals. These petals from another year I have kept for you Until roses bloom again And you ride Through the gates of the Otherworld Across the land in splendour. Rigantona, I strew rose petals about your altar For your coming from the Otherworld. |
Hymn to Rigantona at Calan GaeafRigantona, we strew rose petals about your altar
for your going into the Otherworld. In this dark of the moon I hold vigil here for your going into the Otherworld Rigantona – I strew rose petals about your altar for your going into the Otherworld Winter is now upon us and the darkness Rigantona – the leaves are strewn upon the earth the hawthorn tree is bare for your going into the Otherworld The song of your birds is lost in the sigh of the wind in the shriek of the wind but I listen still for it's echo with your going into the Otherworld |