Paganistan: Notes from the Secret Commonwealth
In Which One Midwest Man-in-Black Confers, Converses & Otherwise Hob-Nobs with his Fellow Hob-Men (& -Women) Concerning the Sundry Ways of the Famed but Ill-Starred Tribe of Witches.
Dernmantle, or: The Hidden God
They say that the Horned, god of witches, has a cloak of invisibility.
Dernmantle, they call it—a dern is a secret—for which reason Dernmantle is counted among his many by-names. Remind me to tell you some time the tale of how he came by it.
(Some, though, call it a cap or helm: the Dernhelm.)
In this way, he walks among us, unknown, unseen. Lord of Beasts, where animals are, he is: nor do we always see him.
Down the long years, he has walked unseen. Through the hidden centuries, he walked among us still.
We, his people, are like to him. We, too, have the power to walk unseen.
Praise to the Horned, Dernmantle, wrapped in a cloak of shadow.
Praise to his hidden people, walking the centuries, unseen.
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