Calendar of the Sun
14 Solmonath
Lupercalia
Color: Black and red
Element: Earth
Altar: Drape with black and set with the figures of wolves and a straw goat. There should also be
a shallow bowl filled with the blood of a recently slaughtered animal, and a knife in the blood,
and a goatskin whip.
Offerings: Cakes baked of "mola salsa", heavily salted meal from the first ears of grain
harvested during the last year. An agreement to study the predator and prey within you.
Daily Meal: Goat meat. Bread or cooked grains.
Lupercalia Invocation
Within us is the goat
Who is sacrificed
Who gives up its life
Who is torn apart
That others may live.
Within us is the wolf
That does the tearing,
Who is pitiless,
Who is implacable,
Who is the life for which
The prey lays it own down.
We are both wolf and goat
And to devalue one
Is to shame the other.
Call and Response:
Hail, Creature of Prey, Sacrificed One!
Hail, Predator who accepts the sacrifice!
Hail, Pan, Goat-God who runs on swift hooves!
Hail, Loba, Wolf-Goddess, who pursues him!
May we fear no pain!
May we fear no pain!
May we fear no pain!
(Two who have been chosen to do the work of the ritual stand naked before the altar. One takes
the whip and whips the open presented palms of each person, saying, "Let the spirit of the Goat
come into you." The other takes the bloody knife and carefully wipes it across the foreheads of
everyone present, saying, "Let the spirit of the Wolf come into you." All join in a group howl.)
[Pagan Book of Hours]