The Litany of Dismissal

Priestess: In this place, beside these waters, we have done as the ancients taught us.

        People: We have kept the oaths of Earth and Heaven.

Priestess: In this place, beside these waters, we have become the Water’s Children.

People: We the sons of Sea and Starlight.

Priestess: As Raos revealed to our first fathers, as the Stone-kings prophesied, as Lanenomen sealed upon the Keif-Aleital, as Heaven has willed, as the Sword of Sencan won, so have we done.

People: We the sons of mighty Sencan.

Priestess: Nankeinela was the First, who made the world by Song. The Stars were the first-made, who dance through the Four Courts of Heaven according to their time. Men were lately made, the world’s last children, but the Children of Water and Starlight hear still the Song which is unending, and the Seafoam and the Starlight will not fade from their blood, though ten thousand Eons pass. Feihoth and Reinfal, tall Lanenomen, Orusen and Hasanyah and Swanfoot Alyeitalya, Sencan and Hasanyah, Fanhal and Thoranrai the Queen, and the sons of sorrowing Nanalon—all Kings and Queens, all the holy heroes of Ranhor’s Isle, all who keep the Oaths of Earth and Heaven; these we remember, these we celebrate, for our life is in their life, and we hold that the Seafoam and the Starlight have not faded from our blood.

        People: Nankeinela, you made us, not of constraint, but of your own bounty. Therefore, remember us.

Priestess: Now these holy waters, and you the Water’s Children, fill the earth, bring life from death. Cleanse the Sea, drive back the dark things, the horned things, the many-eyed things, the things which creep amid the deep and lonely places. So stands forever the city which Sencan built upon the Holy Hill.