Songs to Vana

It is told that the Vana priests have a collection of scrolls which contain the Ten Great Invocations To The Goddess Vana. Have in mind, reader, that these texts, which are to be sung usually, are hymns to, and not invocations of Vana. We do not know why High Priestess Telinda of Arivel called them that way many decades ago. Maybe she thought the title to be more impressive, maybe it was an articulation of her wish to get a more personally contact to the Goddess.
We are not in the position to judge about it.

To avoid misunderstandings, in recent times the poems are simply called "Songs to Vana". In this place we used the original headline for the sake of historical correctness.
The Ten Great Invocations still belong to the heart of Belief and, looking at the content, they are timeless. They inspired countless others, and the temple halls often are filled with holy music based on these hymns.

Remark: some readers asked why some of Telindas songs were written in the elvish language.
The answer is simple: the Arivel castle was shared with courtesy by the Elves to the humans in the year 1081 (of the Queen). Telinda moved to Arivel in 1085 and lived there many years studying the nature of different races by comparing elvish and human traits. Her research brought her many deeper insights, and when she returned to the Vana temple she had gained a new level of transcendence. Some years later, when High Priestess Acionia retired because of age, Telinda became High Priestess and started to write the famous hymns. In Arivel she had learned the language of the Elves very well, and she still had much good memories about this time. So she wrote some songs in Elvish to address even members of another race, to share her belief with them, and to show them that she had not forgotten her friends in Arivel.

(Mecailon Ariuthannor, 1151 o.t.Q.)

Seventh song of Invocation

She embraces you with darkness,
she will soften all your pain.
And she takes you to the darkness.
Don´t refuse it, it´s in vain.

Come, Vana!

Here I call her in at midnight,
call the Goddess high above.
I am dancing in the moonlight,
she´s Goddess of Death and Love.

Come, Vana!

Vana, look at me and lead me!
Here I stand in black and red.
If my heart is cold, then heat me,
reach me your hand when I´m dead.

Come, Vana!

I am serving you with pleasure
and until my final breath.
I´m prepared for every measure.
Come, Goddess of Love and Death!

Come, Vana!

Sure the world would be much better
if we all could recognize:
there are two things yet which matter –
Love and Death are in our eyes.

Come, Vana!

Vana...

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