My grandparents once owned this beautiful house in the southern, rural parts of Germany, and the house, as it is local tradition, has an epigram on the front, carved in wood.
Theirs roughly translates as Diligence will be rewarded by God and shows the patron saint for craftspeople, St. Josef on a work bench.
Then I thought: spiritual messages on houses, that might be neat! So for my story, I wrote an epigram (a bit longer) for the house of Mages. I'm interested in your response.
These are patron saint Aune's words addressed to the living planets and my contribution to this week's Sunday Six:
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Aune, Patron Saint of Instigation
Rise up, all you stars and orbs
Set out to change
their course for good
For the winds
are in your favor
As you are
source, and they are life.
You let
them have their way
too long.
too long.
So go now, throw
them
off their tracks.
off their tracks.
Be inconspicuous and obscure
Encircle and entice
them
And lull them
to their sleeps..
And lull them
to their sleeps..
Then lunge
and flare up
forcefully
forcefully
And let them
wither
Make them burn.
For you are
the familiar
and they have gone astray.