Just intensely curious: do pagans have hymns?

From: [identity profile] runeshower.livejournal.com

I'd say so


Certainly there are reverent songs.

"We all come from the Goddess
And to her we shall return
Like a drop of rain
Flowing to the ocean."

From: [identity profile] patgreene.livejournal.com

Re: I'd say so


What a wonderfully spiritual image, that of a drop of water returning to the ocean.

From: [identity profile] dawnd.livejournal.com

Re: I'd say so


Yes, that's an image that resonates for me, too. We are all a part of the greater whole.

There's a second part to that chant:

Hoof and horn, hoof and horn
All that dies shall be reborn.
Corn and Grain, corn and grain
All that falls shall rise again.

The two can be sung simultaneosly.

I'd say Pagans mostly don't have "hymns," which refers to the structure of music as much as anything else. Most of the "hymns" that pagans have are filked from Christian hymns. And there are a VERY few hymns that were ORIGINALLY Pagan, and were filked by the Christians, and have now been re-claimed. But mostly, Pagans have chants--they tend to be simpler than hymns, usually one or at most two melodic lines, are shorter, and are often used while dancing, or doing some other action in a ritual.
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