Ancestral Invocation Song for the Maternal lineage of my Father. Women of Buckie, Moray, and beyond.
Praise for the guides of the Spirits of the Dead at the Sea Caves of the Dead, by the Moray Firth.
Song and lyrics by CrowDevi, aka Crow Grando. August 2020, year of the pandemic. 

Uamh nam Marbh ni toabh Linne Mhoireibh- Cave of the Dead by the Moray Firth

Oh Dark Lady, Oh Dark Lady,
Whose Stormy eyes comprise the Sea.
Oh Dark Lady, Oh my
Dark Lady, 
I lay me at Your feet upon the bonnie shore.
I pray thee, open wide the Spirit Door.

Oh Dark Lady, Oh my Dark Lady,
Please supple arms encircle me.
And to the Waves, give up my Flesh.
For You I lay my bones upon this boney floor.
To You, my bones relinquish, evermore.

None lay buried, do they, on this bonnie shore?
None stay buried, do they, on this boney shore?

Oh Dark Lady, 
Oh my Dark Lady,
You are no other One but Sidhe,
Oh Dark Lady,
Oh my Dark Lady,
Your hands, they sort my bones upon the bonnie shore.
Your hands sift through my bones, in shards, upon this bonnie shore.

None lay buried, do they, on this bonnie shore?
Your salt blood carries me, so gentle, through the Spirit Door.

Oh Dark Lady,
Oh my Dark Lady,
Called by no other name but Sidhe,
In dreams I sift my bones upon the Ocean floor.
I dream I read the bones, in shards,upon the bonnie shore.
And my hands sift through the shards of bone, forever more.
And I'm carried on Your Waters, through the Spirit Door.
To live among all my People evermore....


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Wokiya Kangi Wakangli Winyan.  
Lightning Speaker, Thunder’s Daughter. First Granddaughter of the Seventh Sister. Mi’kmaq, Scottish, Norse, mixed-European colonial settler. Foot in both worlds. Lover of The Animal Nations, and all my shining Ancestral Spirit kin, human and other-than-human.