Date:   12/27/2005 12:54:30 AM ( 19 y ago)
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URL:   http://www.curezone.org/blogs/c/fm.asp?i=992055

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturnalia "Io Saturnalia!" the Barnes & Knoble clerk said to me tonight, after I told him Happy Chanukah and Kwanza! What, I asked, did you say?!? "IO" is pronounced as "YO". I went home and looked it up--here's information from Wikipedia.

Check out this great website! if you want to do your own Saturnalia ritual: http://www.cs.utk.edu/~mclennan/BA/Saturnalia.html

Saturnalia Chants http://www.cs.utk.edu/~mclennan/BA/Saturnalia-chants.html


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Chant I
Save the seed corn for the sowing;
Plant the seed to start it growing.
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Chant II
Bring the light to wake the seed;
Let the shoot from earth be freed.
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Response I
Io Saturnalia!
Io Saturnalia!
Io Saturnalia!
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Response II
As we have done this day, so every day!
 

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