Name: Hymn to Odin
Duration: P00H04M27S
Description: This is a track originally written as the Orphic Hymn to Hermes Chthonios. It may end up reappearing as a "double" version with lyrics to Hermes Chthonios. I have my suspicions they may be the same deity... of course I'll never know.

Hymn to Odin

by Kimberly Steele

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This is a track originally written as the Orphic Hymn to Hermes Chthonios. It may end up reappearing as a "double" version with lyrics to Hermes Chthonios. I have my suspicions they may be the same deity... of course I'll never know.

lyrics

Odin hung on the yggdrasil tree
For days and nights numbering three times three
Stabbed with a spear, on the tree unknown
Self-sacrificed where the tree had grown

None came to help him as he
Peered down into bleak abyss
None heard his piercing screams
In the quiet of the wilderness

For only one way can the runes be learned
Not bought or sold, they must be earned
Crying aloud he brought down the runes
Then he fell down after untold moons

Nine mighty songs he learned
from Balethorn, Bestla’s sire
He drank of the wondrous mead
Warmed by the Soulstirrer’s fire

Before long he healed and learned
Becoming the lamp where wisdom burned
Thoughts became actions and actions deeds
Action in this way becomes destiny

He told us all to seek the unknown
By transmutation find the hidden stone
Listen for music and watch for the signs
Fashioned by the holy and divine

Thus great Odin the world began
And one day he will rise once again
He will rise again
He will rise again
He will rise again

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released August 31, 2023
Original music by Kimberly Steele
Lyrics adapted from The Havamal/ ancient Norse poetry

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Kimberly Steele Chicago, Illinois

Kimberly Steele (Queenie) is a composer, music teacher, and blogger who lives with her husband in the far west suburbs of Chicago, Illinois.

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